Clest Basic Law Enforcement Auxiliary EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS NEWEST VERSION

Ethics encompasses the standards for evaluating right and wrong and the personal qualities that sustain the ability to make and act on these judgements. True or False - Answer️True Who is responsible for an officers standard of professional performance - Answer️Officer (himself) Which is not one of the three types of power 1. Coercive 2. Exhortative 3. Commanding 4. Reciprocal - Answer️3. Commanding A Result of unethical behavior could be - Answer️Criminal charges, Discipline, and Career Loss Unethical acts by officers not in your jurisdiction have no effect on how you as an officer may be perceived by the public. True or False - Answer️False Entry into an open field, whether trespass or not, is not a search within the meaning of the fourth amendment. True or False - Answer️True An inventory of a persons property, such as a vehicle, is an administrative procedure and is not considered a search. True or False - Answer️True A police officer may stop and detain a person based on reasonable suspicion even if no crime has actually been committed. True or False - Answer️True Facts and circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe a crime has been, is being or is about to be committed best describes - Answer️Reasonable Suspicion The primary purpose of the exclusionary rule is to discourage - Answer️Unlawful search and seizures Consent, exigent circumstances, incident to arrest, and ____ are all examples of exceptions to the search warrant requirement - Answer️Plain view A plain view search requires - Answer️The officer to be in the location of the search lawfully A search incident to exigent circumstances must end once the exigency has abated. True or false - Answer️True A frisk is defined as a pat down of the outer clothing only for the presence of a weapon. True or False - Answer️True If a police officer has reasonable suspicion to detain a person, he/she has the automatic right to frisk that person. True or False - Answer️False You do not need a search warrant to arrest a person who is located in his own home if you have an arrest warrant. True or False - Answer️True What are the four exceptions to the vehicle warrant requirement - Answer️Probable Cause, Incident to arrest, Consent, and Inventory The officers sole function in court is to tell: - Answer️What is known by him from personal knowledge to be the truth One important thing to remember about dealing with a defense attorney is to make all dealings wiht him or her and their client honest and fair. True or False - Answer️True the two types of procedural examinations are direct and cross. True or False - Answer️True During direct examination the defense attorney presents his case. True or False - Answer️False Wringing your hands while testifying is an acceptable behavior. True or False - Answer️False Centralized Police system - Answer️A national police force, one jurisdiction, guided by politics due to political appointment of the police force directors. Often times army and police act as one Decentralized Police system - Answer️A multi- jurisdictional police force. Each agency is headed by its own director, each responsible to its own governmental leaders Fourth Amendment - Answer️unreasonable search and seizure Fifth Amendment - Answer️No self incrimination, No double jeopardy, due process, grand jury indictment Sixth Amendment - Answer️Speedy and public trial, Impartial jury, Fair trial, counsel Eight Amendment - Answer️Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail or fines. Tenth Amendment - Answer️The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Fourtenth Amendment - Answer️Due process Clause, Equal protection clause three institutions of criminal Justice system - Answer️Police, Courts, Corrections Class A Misdemeanor - Answer️Shall not exceed 1 year in jail; up to a $2,500 fine Class B Misdemeanor - Answer️Shall not exceed 90 days in Jail; up to a $1,000.00 fine Class C Misdemeanor - Answer️Shall not exceed 30 days in Jail; up to a $500 fine Class Y Felony - Answer️Not less than 10 and not more than 40 years or life in prison Class A Felony - Answer️- Not less than 6 and not more than 30 years in prison - Up to $15,000.00 fine Class B Felony - Answer️- Not less than 5 and not more than 20 years in prison - Up to $15,000.00 fine class C Felony - Answer️Not less than 3 and not more than 10 years in prison - Up to $10,000.00 fine Class D Felony - Answer️Not less than 1 and not more than 6 years in prison - Up to $10,000.00 fine Capital Crimes - Answer️Punishable by death or life in prison. Capital Murder - Answer️Class Y Felony Treason - Answer️Class A Felony Please place the 5 stages of intervention in the correct order from stage 1 to 5 - Answer️-See the problem -Is action required -Decide to take responsibility -Determine how to intervene -Take action Priority of life in active shooter situation - Answer️Innocents Civilians, First Responders, Actors/Suspects, Property In a hostage barricade situation, the primary purpose is usually mass murder. True or False - Answer️False 5 C's in hostage barricade situation - Answer️Contain, Control, Communicate, Call SWAT, Create a Plan Crime - Answer️any act or omission to act prohibited by public law for the protection of the public A written report provides permanent documentation of an event. True or False - Answer️True A written report provides _____ documentation of an event. - Answer️Permanent The advantage to writing in the active voice style is that emphasizes who did the action, over what the action was. True or False - Answer️True which of the following are advantages to varying your patrol patterns - Answer️Maintain an element of surprise, Become more visible to the community, Don't create a predictable pattern When preparing to go on duty, it is not necessary to search the interior compartment of your patrol unit for weapons, evidence or contraband left behind by someone else. - Answer️False Advantages of foot patrol include - Answer️Enhanced hearing ability, Enhanced visibility, and Citizen contact The purpose of conduction field interviews is to develop information and informants, for identification purposes, and for development of suspects and crime prevention. True or False - Answer️True When responding to a crime in progress, in order to not announce your presence, you should turn off what as you near the scene - Answer️Emergency lights and/ or sirens If an officer begins to think of traffic stops as____ it could cause the officer to become complacent, exposing him/her to increased danger as a result. - Answer️Routine You should wait to run N.C.I.C/ A.C.I.C. and local warrant checks for wants an warrants if you anticipate stopping a vehicle until after initiating the traffic stop. True or False - Answer️False One Inherent danger in repeatedly conducting traffic stops is the danger of falling into the category of routine, causing an officer to become ____ - Answer️Complacent There are three general classifications of traffic stops. What are they - Answer️Low Risk, High Risk, and Transitional The refusal to obey civil law in an effort to change governmental policy or legislation, characterized using passive resistance or other nonviolent means is the definition of which of the following: - Answer️Civil Disobedience A protest is an inalienable right that is a peaceful demonstration of dislike of a certain thing. True or False - Answer️True A riot exhibits violent behavior against authority, people, or property, but it is an inalienable right for all humans to be able to riot. True or False - Answer️False Redneck Revolt/ John Brown Gun Clubs generally follow which of the following principles - Answer️Stand against the nation-state and its forces which protect the bosses and the rich Why are less riot control agents and less lethal munitions used by laws enforcement used by law enforcement in crowd control issues - Answer️Protect life and property The three institutions of the criminal justice system are the police, courts and internal revenue service. - Answer️False The first line of the criminal justice system is ____ - Answer️Police officers Which of the following countries utilizes the most decentralized police system in the world - Answer️United States A Class Y Felony is punishable by: - Answer️Not less than 10 but not more than 40 years of life The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) Is responsible for: - Answer️Evaluation and issuing certifications for Full-Time, Part-Time, and Auxiliary officers Which agency certifies instructors and training courses. - Answer️Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) Which agency audits agencies for compliance with standards - Answer️Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) The Principal is the person who actually commits the crime. True or False - Answer️True Includes accessories that fail to make a proper effort to prevent the conduct if known. - Answer️Accomplices The Quantum knowledge sufficient to induce an ordinary prudent and cautious man under similar circumstances to believe criminal activity is at hand is: - Answer️Reasonable Suspicion A common offense against property would include - Answer️Arson A common offence against persons would include - Answer️Murder The definition "An obligation or a debt" describes what - Answer️Liability Something Done or suffered by one on behalf of another - Answer️Vicarious Liability A peace officer is protected form liability when providing emergency services as long as they acted in good faith within the scope of their employment and agency policy. True or False - Answer️True To protect against damage, loss or injury describes indemnify. True or False - Answer️True Vicarious liability means only the person who was physically involved in the act may be held liable. True or False - Answer️False The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable prudent person would have exercised in a similar situation" describes what? - Answer️Negligence Where it is shown that an officer owed a duty of care to a specific person, and failed in that duty, and that failure resulted in injury is - Answer️Negligence A Conscious, voluntary act or omission in reckless disregard for the probable consequences - Answer️Gross negligence When a person engages in an action where the chances that harm will result is so great that he or she must be aware that harm will occur - Answer️Intentional action Protected classes included in the civil rights act of 1964 include race, color, religion, and national origin. True or False - Answer️True A subjective decision is based on personal feelings. True or False - Answer️True Tennessee v. Garner ruled that the use of deadly physical force is ____ - Answer️A seizure If an officer stops someone based on reasonable suspicion he can detain that person for as long as he wants to? True or False - Answer️False In Illinois v. Gates the supreme court stated that in order for an officer to establish probable cause he must establish beyond a reasonable doubt hat the suspect has committed or about to commit a crime? True or False - Answer️False Under Rule 11.1 of the Arkansas Rules of criminal procedure, before an officer can ask consent to search a residence, He must first advise the owner/ occupant that they have what right - Answer️Refuse Consent If someone is arrested based on probable cause without a warrant, the arresting officer has how many hours to bring that person before a judge for a probable cause determination - Answer️48 An emancipated juvenile who is arrested is always charged as an adult. True or False - Answer️False A law enforcement officer, DHS worker, or other authorized person may remove a child in immediate danger from their home and place them in protective custody. True or False - Answer️True a 16 year old charged with their first offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol would be referred to - Answer️District Court Shelter care means - Answer️The temporary care of a juvenile in a physically unrestricting facility Which of the following controlled substances fall under schedule VI on the Arkansas controlled substance list - Answer️Marijuana