Colorado POST Exam for Spring 2025
Actual Exam Questions with Verified Answers
1. POST REVIEW 1: ..........
2. What is sensory distortion? An officer may hallucinate that an
offender already shot him
3. How does an officer react to the threat of another person?: Locate,
react, control, identify
4. The simplest way for an officer to relieve stress?: Deep belly
breathing
5. When is an officer justified in putting a mentally ill person in jail?:
When there is no room in an institution and he is placed in jail for safety
reasons. Only a facility that is suitable and readily available. A mentally
ill person may only be held in a jail for a maximum of 24 hours
6. When there is a robbery in progress, and a suspect is in the area
an officer should?: Proceed as rapidly as possible but use extreme
caution. Assume the suspect is still at the scene
7. When an officer takes a tape recorder to the crime scene he
must?: Record any victim, witness and suspect statements related to
the crime. Do not cherry pick your witnesses
8. An officer's note taking is minimized at the crime scene by?: The
type of offense, conditions of the case, officer attitude, officer ability
and the number of officers assigned to the case
, 9. When going to the scene of a domestic disdpute, there are four
phases, what are they?: Assess the situation Take immediate
corrective action
Listen and observe
Follow-up
10. When an officer is interviewing a witness or victim to a crime and
the witness heard a loud noise, what perception might the
witness have?: A small crowd may seem large
11. When doing a building search, what is the best way to
approach?: Tactical techniques that buy you the greatest safety.
(Diagonal deployment)
12. Skids that are broken without release of the brake pressure. They
occur when a locked and sliding wheel bounces over a bump, rut,
rails or hole in the road. It is called?: A skip skid mark
13. Which way do you turn the steering wheel when making a traffic
stop?: Turn the wheel to the left
14. On an unknown risk felony stop, what is the best way to
approach?: Tactical Edge states on p. 291 that when working with a
partner, one officer approach only, the officer must stay out of the kill
zone
15. What is verbal judo used for?: To get the individual to comply with
verbal demands
16 What are characteristics of a hate crime?: No gain is made and
property is usually not stolen. Typically involves harassment or assault
Actual Exam Questions with Verified Answers
1. POST REVIEW 1: ..........
2. What is sensory distortion? An officer may hallucinate that an
offender already shot him
3. How does an officer react to the threat of another person?: Locate,
react, control, identify
4. The simplest way for an officer to relieve stress?: Deep belly
breathing
5. When is an officer justified in putting a mentally ill person in jail?:
When there is no room in an institution and he is placed in jail for safety
reasons. Only a facility that is suitable and readily available. A mentally
ill person may only be held in a jail for a maximum of 24 hours
6. When there is a robbery in progress, and a suspect is in the area
an officer should?: Proceed as rapidly as possible but use extreme
caution. Assume the suspect is still at the scene
7. When an officer takes a tape recorder to the crime scene he
must?: Record any victim, witness and suspect statements related to
the crime. Do not cherry pick your witnesses
8. An officer's note taking is minimized at the crime scene by?: The
type of offense, conditions of the case, officer attitude, officer ability
and the number of officers assigned to the case
, 9. When going to the scene of a domestic disdpute, there are four
phases, what are they?: Assess the situation Take immediate
corrective action
Listen and observe
Follow-up
10. When an officer is interviewing a witness or victim to a crime and
the witness heard a loud noise, what perception might the
witness have?: A small crowd may seem large
11. When doing a building search, what is the best way to
approach?: Tactical techniques that buy you the greatest safety.
(Diagonal deployment)
12. Skids that are broken without release of the brake pressure. They
occur when a locked and sliding wheel bounces over a bump, rut,
rails or hole in the road. It is called?: A skip skid mark
13. Which way do you turn the steering wheel when making a traffic
stop?: Turn the wheel to the left
14. On an unknown risk felony stop, what is the best way to
approach?: Tactical Edge states on p. 291 that when working with a
partner, one officer approach only, the officer must stay out of the kill
zone
15. What is verbal judo used for?: To get the individual to comply with
verbal demands
16 What are characteristics of a hate crime?: No gain is made and
property is usually not stolen. Typically involves harassment or assault
