SRO QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Properly train school staff with options based strategy .
Learn lessons from major armed assailant events.
Train for single officer rapid deployment.
In preparation for an armed assailant in your school, which of the following best equips
you, as the SRO, for this potential tragedy?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
while meeting with the principal and a school social worker about a student who you are
concerned about, as the SRO you learn that the student has experienced physical and
sexual abuse. Physical and Sexual abuse are examples of:
Approach the students with a calm manner, identify yourself as someone who is there to
help, and attempt to engage the student in a conversation that would help him become
complaint.
At the beginning of gym class, the PE teacher asks for the SRO to come to the locker
room. The SRO is asked to assist with an argumentative student diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder. He is very upset about the noise level in the locker room. HE is
refusing to sit in the coach's office until he calms down. out of frustration the teacher
says, "I have followed his IEP and nothing works." Which is the best proactive approach
to deescalate and support the students disablity?
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or possession of a person for the
purposes of a commercial sex act that force, fraud, or coercion need not be present.
Which statement best explains child sex trafficking?
Emergency Disclosure request
When law enforcement can articulate and justify emergency circumstances associated
with a social media post the platform administration can provide subscriber information
without delay via
Sworn law enforcement officer, specifically trained, carefully selected
If you were writing a definition of a school resource officer, which of the following would
you use?
puberty refers to the sexual maturation of the body that is occurring during the ever
changing emotional and intellectual period known as adolescence.
, When describing student behavior, it is important to identify and distinguish how puberty
and adolescence effects behavior. Which statement best applies to how these
developments relate to changing behaviors?
If School receives a judicial order,
request from appropriate officials in health and safety emergencies, state/ local authority
within a juvenile justice system pursuant to a specific state law make a request.
A patrol officer stops by your school to ask questions about a student's information. The
patrol officer is asking help to interpret FERPA. Under which condition can the student's
information be released?
TLO v. New Jersey
Gives School officials the right to conduct student searches in the interest of students
well being.
Grooming
Befriending, intoxication, desensitization, and isolation.
Behavioral threat assessment is a critical component of school safety by providing
a process for identifying, evaluating, and supporting students' risk for targeted violence
and self harm.
Know the behavioral signs of mental illness so that you may handle situations
appropriately
in working positively with students that may suffer from mental illness, what is the best
first step?
School officials are receiving community calls informing the school of underage drinking
and drug use in the community. In your role as SRO, which of the following actions
would best assist the administration addressing these concerns?
Work collaboratively with administration to serve as a guest speaker teaching law-
related lessons educating students about the consequences of criminal activity.
Today the number of students asking to talk to you has exceeded your capacity to feel
genuinely effective. You are behind on submitting agency reports, your car wouldn't
start today making you an hour late, and you had to intervene in two small hallway
fights. As an informal counselor/mentor, which of the following represent challenges to
implementing best practice strategies to foster a more positive conversation with
students?
Properly train school staff with options based strategy .
Learn lessons from major armed assailant events.
Train for single officer rapid deployment.
In preparation for an armed assailant in your school, which of the following best equips
you, as the SRO, for this potential tragedy?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
while meeting with the principal and a school social worker about a student who you are
concerned about, as the SRO you learn that the student has experienced physical and
sexual abuse. Physical and Sexual abuse are examples of:
Approach the students with a calm manner, identify yourself as someone who is there to
help, and attempt to engage the student in a conversation that would help him become
complaint.
At the beginning of gym class, the PE teacher asks for the SRO to come to the locker
room. The SRO is asked to assist with an argumentative student diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder. He is very upset about the noise level in the locker room. HE is
refusing to sit in the coach's office until he calms down. out of frustration the teacher
says, "I have followed his IEP and nothing works." Which is the best proactive approach
to deescalate and support the students disablity?
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or possession of a person for the
purposes of a commercial sex act that force, fraud, or coercion need not be present.
Which statement best explains child sex trafficking?
Emergency Disclosure request
When law enforcement can articulate and justify emergency circumstances associated
with a social media post the platform administration can provide subscriber information
without delay via
Sworn law enforcement officer, specifically trained, carefully selected
If you were writing a definition of a school resource officer, which of the following would
you use?
puberty refers to the sexual maturation of the body that is occurring during the ever
changing emotional and intellectual period known as adolescence.
, When describing student behavior, it is important to identify and distinguish how puberty
and adolescence effects behavior. Which statement best applies to how these
developments relate to changing behaviors?
If School receives a judicial order,
request from appropriate officials in health and safety emergencies, state/ local authority
within a juvenile justice system pursuant to a specific state law make a request.
A patrol officer stops by your school to ask questions about a student's information. The
patrol officer is asking help to interpret FERPA. Under which condition can the student's
information be released?
TLO v. New Jersey
Gives School officials the right to conduct student searches in the interest of students
well being.
Grooming
Befriending, intoxication, desensitization, and isolation.
Behavioral threat assessment is a critical component of school safety by providing
a process for identifying, evaluating, and supporting students' risk for targeted violence
and self harm.
Know the behavioral signs of mental illness so that you may handle situations
appropriately
in working positively with students that may suffer from mental illness, what is the best
first step?
School officials are receiving community calls informing the school of underage drinking
and drug use in the community. In your role as SRO, which of the following actions
would best assist the administration addressing these concerns?
Work collaboratively with administration to serve as a guest speaker teaching law-
related lessons educating students about the consequences of criminal activity.
Today the number of students asking to talk to you has exceeded your capacity to feel
genuinely effective. You are behind on submitting agency reports, your car wouldn't
start today making you an hour late, and you had to intervene in two small hallway
fights. As an informal counselor/mentor, which of the following represent challenges to
implementing best practice strategies to foster a more positive conversation with
students?
