Exam Question And Answers 2024
All laws and public policy are created to protect _____ -
correct answers✅The public
What L.E. Systems become laws - correct
answers✅Value, Moral, Belief systems
Modern father of policing? - correct answers✅Sir Robert
Peel
What is the power order for governments from top to
bottom? - correct answers✅Federal, state, county,
township, borough, city.
What is police power bound by? - correct answers✅U.S.
constitution, state constitution, county, township, city,
ordnance's, rules and laws
Police are referred to as what in the criminal justice
system and why? - correct answers✅Gatekeepers, no
one can get in unless arrested and charged with a crime.
What are all the circumstances that give police officers
the right to search? - correct answers✅Subsequent to
arrest, By warrant, with consent, for inventory, exigent
circumstances.
, Introduction to Law Enforcement in PA
Exam Question And Answers 2024
What always trumps the 4th amendment? - correct
answers✅Consent to search
What must you have to make an arrest? - correct
answers✅Probable cause
What is the order of criminal offenses from major to minor
- correct answers✅Felony, misdemeanor, summary,
True or False: Police spend the bulk of their time doing law
enforcement activities. - correct answers✅False:
Officers spend most of their time doing public service.
What is a Patronage system? - correct
answers✅Whenever a department hires whoever based
on a mayor or chief suggestion.
What is a civil service hiring system? - correct
answers✅Merit testing process based on qualifications
and abilities. The department takes the best applicants.
Name the 6 emerging technology trends in policing -
correct answers✅Computer, fingerprint, less lethal,
surveillance, photographic, forensics technology.