POLICE ACADEMY UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Elements of crime prevention - ✔✔1) Effective law enforcement
2) Public education
3) Public awareness
✔✔Steps necessary in assessing a crime - ✔✔1) Awareness
2) Resources for solution
3) Initiation of program
4) Evaluation
✔✔Kin Policing - ✔✔1) Low population
2) Little social organization
3) Small groups of families banded together
✔✔Code of Hammurabi - ✔✔1) 1800 BC
2) First known history of established laws.
✔✔Poli (city) - ✔✔Origin of the word "police"
✔✔Greece - ✔✔1) Foreign slaves used to keep peace.
2) Victim responsible for bringing person to magistrate.
✔✔Rome - ✔✔1) Praetorian Guard
2) Urban cohorts "heavy duty police"
✔✔Felon - ✔✔Identified person of low character
✔✔Henry I - ✔✔Distinguished difference in misdemeanor and felonies.
✔✔Tithing - ✔✔1) Neighborhood watch - 10 neighbors
2) Hundreds - 10 adjacent tithings
✔✔Shire - ✔✔Large area of several hundred tithings
✔✔Shire-reeve - ✔✔1) King appointed primary law enforcer.
**First police in English history**
✔✔Metropolitan Act - ✔✔Improved policing near city of London
✔✔Bobbies - ✔✔Name of the London police force created by Robert Peel.
✔✔Robert Peel's Principles - ✔✔1) Stable efficient & along military lines
, 2) Police under government control
3) Absence of crime will be greatest proof of efficiency
4) Distribution of crime is essential.
5) Police strength by time and area is essential.
6)**Perfect command of temper**
7)Good appearance commands respect
8)Every officer is given a number ID
✔✔Boston Police created - ✔✔1636
✔✔1st organized night watch - ✔✔Boston Police
✔✔New York police created - ✔✔1658
✔✔New York creates 1st organized police force, merging night and day watches. -
✔✔1844
✔✔Boston creates 1st detective - ✔✔1851
✔✔Boston unifies watchmen into police department - ✔✔1854
✔✔First state police - ✔✔Texas Rangers
✔✔First Federal Police - ✔✔US Marshals in 1789
✔✔U.S. Postal Inspection Service - ✔✔1st Federal Law Enforcement Agency
✔✔Creation of the Secret Service - ✔✔1865
✔✔Creation of FBI - ✔✔1901
✔✔First training school for police created in ______ at ______ - ✔✔1908, Berkeley, CA
✔✔Year August Vollmer created Criminology Program at UC Berkeley - ✔✔1916
✔✔Creation of FBI Academy - ✔✔1935
✔✔Wrote police administration and municipal police administration. - ✔✔Chief O.W.
Wilson
✔✔Changed how stops were conducted - ✔✔New hall shooting
✔✔APOST was created by legislative act in what year? - ✔✔1972
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Elements of crime prevention - ✔✔1) Effective law enforcement
2) Public education
3) Public awareness
✔✔Steps necessary in assessing a crime - ✔✔1) Awareness
2) Resources for solution
3) Initiation of program
4) Evaluation
✔✔Kin Policing - ✔✔1) Low population
2) Little social organization
3) Small groups of families banded together
✔✔Code of Hammurabi - ✔✔1) 1800 BC
2) First known history of established laws.
✔✔Poli (city) - ✔✔Origin of the word "police"
✔✔Greece - ✔✔1) Foreign slaves used to keep peace.
2) Victim responsible for bringing person to magistrate.
✔✔Rome - ✔✔1) Praetorian Guard
2) Urban cohorts "heavy duty police"
✔✔Felon - ✔✔Identified person of low character
✔✔Henry I - ✔✔Distinguished difference in misdemeanor and felonies.
✔✔Tithing - ✔✔1) Neighborhood watch - 10 neighbors
2) Hundreds - 10 adjacent tithings
✔✔Shire - ✔✔Large area of several hundred tithings
✔✔Shire-reeve - ✔✔1) King appointed primary law enforcer.
**First police in English history**
✔✔Metropolitan Act - ✔✔Improved policing near city of London
✔✔Bobbies - ✔✔Name of the London police force created by Robert Peel.
✔✔Robert Peel's Principles - ✔✔1) Stable efficient & along military lines
, 2) Police under government control
3) Absence of crime will be greatest proof of efficiency
4) Distribution of crime is essential.
5) Police strength by time and area is essential.
6)**Perfect command of temper**
7)Good appearance commands respect
8)Every officer is given a number ID
✔✔Boston Police created - ✔✔1636
✔✔1st organized night watch - ✔✔Boston Police
✔✔New York police created - ✔✔1658
✔✔New York creates 1st organized police force, merging night and day watches. -
✔✔1844
✔✔Boston creates 1st detective - ✔✔1851
✔✔Boston unifies watchmen into police department - ✔✔1854
✔✔First state police - ✔✔Texas Rangers
✔✔First Federal Police - ✔✔US Marshals in 1789
✔✔U.S. Postal Inspection Service - ✔✔1st Federal Law Enforcement Agency
✔✔Creation of the Secret Service - ✔✔1865
✔✔Creation of FBI - ✔✔1901
✔✔First training school for police created in ______ at ______ - ✔✔1908, Berkeley, CA
✔✔Year August Vollmer created Criminology Program at UC Berkeley - ✔✔1916
✔✔Creation of FBI Academy - ✔✔1935
✔✔Wrote police administration and municipal police administration. - ✔✔Chief O.W.
Wilson
✔✔Changed how stops were conducted - ✔✔New hall shooting
✔✔APOST was created by legislative act in what year? - ✔✔1972
