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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






2. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






3. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






4. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






5. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






6. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






7. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






8. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






9. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






10. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






11. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






12. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






13. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






14. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






15. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






16. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






17. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






18. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






19. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






20. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






21. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






22. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






23. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






24. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






25. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






26. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






27. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






28. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






29. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






30. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






31. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






32. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






33. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






34. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






35. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






36. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






37. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






38. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






39. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






40. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






41. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






42. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






43. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






44. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






45. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






46. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






47. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






48. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






49. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






50. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.