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BASIC JAILERS COURSE TCOLE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS.
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - (answers)is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state
if Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - (answers)is the regulatory agency for
all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - (answers)is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - (answers)the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty
and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - (answers)was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of
state officers and employees
Jail Climate - (answers)the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
Stress - (answers)a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
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Communication - (answers)the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and information
Attitude - (answers)is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences
him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing
Race - (answers)generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
Ethnicity - (answers)refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - (answers)is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of
the universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - (answers)is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - (answers)a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - (answers)acting on the basis if prejudice
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Sexual Harassment - (answers)is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome sexual or
gender based behavior
Booking - (answers)recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
Detainer - (answers)a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain
a person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or transfer to
another jurisdiction
Commitment - (answers)an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
Warrant - (answers)a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or
some other person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a
person accused of an offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - (answers)is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any peace
officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an
offense and bring him before that court immediately, or on a day or at a term
stated in the writ
Writ of Attachment - (answers)is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or
proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body
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of a witness and bring him before court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day
named, or forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the
case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - (answers)when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he
shall issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the
accused before him
Search - (answers)the examination of persons or property with the intention of
finding evidence ot in plain sight
Contraband - (answers)is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
Strip Search - (answers)when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be
necessary, inmates should undergo a through strip search for weapons and
contraband thsy may pose a threat to the security of safety of thr facility
Cavity Search - (answers)basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
Tort - (answers)a civil or private wrong or injury for which s court will provide a
remedy in the form of an action for damages
BASIC JAILERS COURSE TCOLE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS.
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - (answers)is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state
if Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - (answers)is the regulatory agency for
all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - (answers)is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - (answers)the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty
and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - (answers)was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of
state officers and employees
Jail Climate - (answers)the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
Stress - (answers)a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
,2
Communication - (answers)the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and information
Attitude - (answers)is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences
him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing
Race - (answers)generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
Ethnicity - (answers)refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - (answers)is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of
the universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - (answers)is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - (answers)a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - (answers)acting on the basis if prejudice
,3
Sexual Harassment - (answers)is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome sexual or
gender based behavior
Booking - (answers)recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
Detainer - (answers)a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain
a person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or transfer to
another jurisdiction
Commitment - (answers)an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
Warrant - (answers)a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or
some other person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a
person accused of an offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - (answers)is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any peace
officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an
offense and bring him before that court immediately, or on a day or at a term
stated in the writ
Writ of Attachment - (answers)is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or
proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body
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of a witness and bring him before court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day
named, or forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the
case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - (answers)when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he
shall issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the
accused before him
Search - (answers)the examination of persons or property with the intention of
finding evidence ot in plain sight
Contraband - (answers)is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
Strip Search - (answers)when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be
necessary, inmates should undergo a through strip search for weapons and
contraband thsy may pose a threat to the security of safety of thr facility
Cavity Search - (answers)basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
Tort - (answers)a civil or private wrong or injury for which s court will provide a
remedy in the form of an action for damages
