MISSOURI POST UPDATED 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the most powerful statement an law enforcement officer can make? - ✔✔Let
me be sure I understood you correctly
✔✔What are the 3 types of listening? - ✔✔Competitive, passive, and active
✔✔What percentage is non-verbal communication? - ✔✔55%
✔✔What does D.A.R.E stand for? - ✔✔Drug abuse resistance education
✔✔What are the 5 things needed to face daily threats for law enforcement officers? -
✔✔Tactics
Mental Conditioning
Firearms Skills
Personal Fitness
Equipment
✔✔What is gang defined as? - ✔✔3 or more individuals that partake in criminal activity.
✔✔What does OC stand for? - ✔✔Oleorsin Capsicum
✔✔When should LEO's shake their OC can? - ✔✔Before and after there shift.
✔✔What is the use of force rule? - ✔✔Force used must be immediately necessary and
objectively reasonable based on what the officers knew or should've known at the time
the force was used.
✔✔What does OODA Loop stand for?` - ✔✔Observe, Orient, Decide, Act and repeat.
✔✔What are the 3 types of handcuffing? - ✔✔Standing, Kneeling, and Prone
✔✔What are the most common types of crimes in progress? - ✔✔Robbery, Burglary,
Assault, Domestic Assault, Larceny (Stealing)
✔✔What is a fatal funnel - ✔✔Areas such a doorways, stairwells, hallways, thresholds,
and transitional areas that represent the greatest threat during an entry, as they are
generally narrow, confining areas that offer little or no cover or concealment
✔✔What are ways you can clear a doorway? - ✔✔Cross, Buttonhook, and Threshold
Clear
, ✔✔What are the 3 things to make LEO more confident? - ✔✔Training, Physical Fitness,
and Techniques
✔✔When does an interview become an interrogation? - ✔✔When guilt seeking
questions are being asked.
✔✔What is the Miranda equation? - ✔✔Custody + Interrogation = Miranda
✔✔When recording, do you need to inform those around you, that you are recording? -
✔✔No, Missouri is a one party state.
✔✔What does Intra State mean? - ✔✔Within the same state
✔✔What does inter state mean? - ✔✔Another state
✔✔What is the most accurate way to ID a person? - ✔✔Fingerprints
✔✔What are Patent finger prints? - ✔✔Visible to the naked eye
✔✔What are Latent finger prints? - ✔✔Invisible to the naked eye
✔✔When you conduct a patdown (frisk) you are looking for what? - ✔✔Weapons
✔✔When you mark evidence you generally do what? - ✔✔Etch officer's installs and
DSN on an inconspicuous part of the evidence.
✔✔What are items you won't etch when marking evidence? - ✔✔Jewelry, Cartridges,
Cartridge Casing, Bullets, Trace evidence, liquids, dirt, drugs, paint scrapings, cigarette
butts.
✔✔A eviction notice must be severed when? - ✔✔At least 4 days prior
✔✔What is the DWI 3 phase to stop the vehicle? - ✔✔1. Vehicle in motion
2. Personal contact
3. Pre-screening arrest
✔✔What are the DWI decision making questions? - ✔✔1. Do I pull over
2. Should driver exit
3. Do I arrest
✔✔If someone pleads guilty what can they not do? - ✔✔Appeal
✔✔How many clues does HGN (Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus) have? - ✔✔6
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the most powerful statement an law enforcement officer can make? - ✔✔Let
me be sure I understood you correctly
✔✔What are the 3 types of listening? - ✔✔Competitive, passive, and active
✔✔What percentage is non-verbal communication? - ✔✔55%
✔✔What does D.A.R.E stand for? - ✔✔Drug abuse resistance education
✔✔What are the 5 things needed to face daily threats for law enforcement officers? -
✔✔Tactics
Mental Conditioning
Firearms Skills
Personal Fitness
Equipment
✔✔What is gang defined as? - ✔✔3 or more individuals that partake in criminal activity.
✔✔What does OC stand for? - ✔✔Oleorsin Capsicum
✔✔When should LEO's shake their OC can? - ✔✔Before and after there shift.
✔✔What is the use of force rule? - ✔✔Force used must be immediately necessary and
objectively reasonable based on what the officers knew or should've known at the time
the force was used.
✔✔What does OODA Loop stand for?` - ✔✔Observe, Orient, Decide, Act and repeat.
✔✔What are the 3 types of handcuffing? - ✔✔Standing, Kneeling, and Prone
✔✔What are the most common types of crimes in progress? - ✔✔Robbery, Burglary,
Assault, Domestic Assault, Larceny (Stealing)
✔✔What is a fatal funnel - ✔✔Areas such a doorways, stairwells, hallways, thresholds,
and transitional areas that represent the greatest threat during an entry, as they are
generally narrow, confining areas that offer little or no cover or concealment
✔✔What are ways you can clear a doorway? - ✔✔Cross, Buttonhook, and Threshold
Clear
, ✔✔What are the 3 things to make LEO more confident? - ✔✔Training, Physical Fitness,
and Techniques
✔✔When does an interview become an interrogation? - ✔✔When guilt seeking
questions are being asked.
✔✔What is the Miranda equation? - ✔✔Custody + Interrogation = Miranda
✔✔When recording, do you need to inform those around you, that you are recording? -
✔✔No, Missouri is a one party state.
✔✔What does Intra State mean? - ✔✔Within the same state
✔✔What does inter state mean? - ✔✔Another state
✔✔What is the most accurate way to ID a person? - ✔✔Fingerprints
✔✔What are Patent finger prints? - ✔✔Visible to the naked eye
✔✔What are Latent finger prints? - ✔✔Invisible to the naked eye
✔✔When you conduct a patdown (frisk) you are looking for what? - ✔✔Weapons
✔✔When you mark evidence you generally do what? - ✔✔Etch officer's installs and
DSN on an inconspicuous part of the evidence.
✔✔What are items you won't etch when marking evidence? - ✔✔Jewelry, Cartridges,
Cartridge Casing, Bullets, Trace evidence, liquids, dirt, drugs, paint scrapings, cigarette
butts.
✔✔A eviction notice must be severed when? - ✔✔At least 4 days prior
✔✔What is the DWI 3 phase to stop the vehicle? - ✔✔1. Vehicle in motion
2. Personal contact
3. Pre-screening arrest
✔✔What are the DWI decision making questions? - ✔✔1. Do I pull over
2. Should driver exit
3. Do I arrest
✔✔If someone pleads guilty what can they not do? - ✔✔Appeal
✔✔How many clues does HGN (Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus) have? - ✔✔6
