PATROL PROCEDURES UPDATED EXAMS TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Identify the state statutes which apply to traffic direction and control - ✔✔60-
6,110(1): Obedience to peace officers-Traffic Infraction
60-6,119: Obedience to traffic control devices
✔✔Identify the two purposes of traffic direction and control - ✔✔-Facilitate safe traffic
movement
-Facilitate efficient traffic movement
✔✔What is "officer liability" using the "standard of care"? - ✔✔-Legal obligation: Safe
and efficient move of traffic. Failure on your part can lead to legal action against you
-Failure to Exercise Standard of Care: Leaving a stalled vehicle with help on the way,
Failure to maintain control of an intersection, Controlling traffic inside your vehicle
✔✔Identify the factors of safely conducting traffic direction and control. - ✔✔Use of
barricades, safety banner, barrels, and cones, verbalization
✔✔What is the procedure for giving proper "hand signals"? - ✔✔The hand signs should
be shoulder height. They must be clear, crisp, and authoritative.
✔✔What equipment is necessary when conducting traffic control? - ✔✔-Traffic Vest
, -Flashlights
-Flares, Cones, Barricades
✔✔What are the advantages of proper cruiser emergency lighting? - ✔✔-Warn
approaching traffic
-Attack the driver's attention
✔✔What are the various cruiser placement options for traffic control? - ✔✔-Block an
intersection
-Block mid-block
-Protect stalled vehicle
✔✔Order for emergency vehicle priority - ✔✔1. Fire trucks
2. Ambulances
3. Police
4. Tow Trucks
5. Civilian Traffic
✔✔When should barricades be used for traffic control? - ✔✔Pedestrians
✔✔Define crowd - ✔✔A large group of people gathered in one place with something in
common
✔✔What is the difference between low risk and high risk crowds? - ✔✔-Low risk: low
probability that problems will arise from the crowd
-High risk: there is a high potential for violence and disorder, and there is a high
probability that a riot will ensue if there is no intervention
✔✔What are the different types of less lethal munitions? - ✔✔-Impact Bean Bag
-Muzzle Bang
-Interlocking Rubber Baton round
✔✔List the tactical alternatives to controlling violent and non-violent crowds - ✔✔-
Skirmish Line: close with and move a crowd, or contain a position
-Wedge: Separate or penetrate a crowd
-Circle: Used to effect arrests and rescues
-Echelon: Separate crowd from buildings
-Mobile: provide the ability to rapidly and effectively close with and impact a mob without
being subjected to being pelted with rocks and bottles
✔✔Describe how to access a crowd to locate agitators - ✔✔-Rarely on the front line
-First to start a "chant"
-Baits the crowd
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Identify the state statutes which apply to traffic direction and control - ✔✔60-
6,110(1): Obedience to peace officers-Traffic Infraction
60-6,119: Obedience to traffic control devices
✔✔Identify the two purposes of traffic direction and control - ✔✔-Facilitate safe traffic
movement
-Facilitate efficient traffic movement
✔✔What is "officer liability" using the "standard of care"? - ✔✔-Legal obligation: Safe
and efficient move of traffic. Failure on your part can lead to legal action against you
-Failure to Exercise Standard of Care: Leaving a stalled vehicle with help on the way,
Failure to maintain control of an intersection, Controlling traffic inside your vehicle
✔✔Identify the factors of safely conducting traffic direction and control. - ✔✔Use of
barricades, safety banner, barrels, and cones, verbalization
✔✔What is the procedure for giving proper "hand signals"? - ✔✔The hand signs should
be shoulder height. They must be clear, crisp, and authoritative.
✔✔What equipment is necessary when conducting traffic control? - ✔✔-Traffic Vest
, -Flashlights
-Flares, Cones, Barricades
✔✔What are the advantages of proper cruiser emergency lighting? - ✔✔-Warn
approaching traffic
-Attack the driver's attention
✔✔What are the various cruiser placement options for traffic control? - ✔✔-Block an
intersection
-Block mid-block
-Protect stalled vehicle
✔✔Order for emergency vehicle priority - ✔✔1. Fire trucks
2. Ambulances
3. Police
4. Tow Trucks
5. Civilian Traffic
✔✔When should barricades be used for traffic control? - ✔✔Pedestrians
✔✔Define crowd - ✔✔A large group of people gathered in one place with something in
common
✔✔What is the difference between low risk and high risk crowds? - ✔✔-Low risk: low
probability that problems will arise from the crowd
-High risk: there is a high potential for violence and disorder, and there is a high
probability that a riot will ensue if there is no intervention
✔✔What are the different types of less lethal munitions? - ✔✔-Impact Bean Bag
-Muzzle Bang
-Interlocking Rubber Baton round
✔✔List the tactical alternatives to controlling violent and non-violent crowds - ✔✔-
Skirmish Line: close with and move a crowd, or contain a position
-Wedge: Separate or penetrate a crowd
-Circle: Used to effect arrests and rescues
-Echelon: Separate crowd from buildings
-Mobile: provide the ability to rapidly and effectively close with and impact a mob without
being subjected to being pelted with rocks and bottles
✔✔Describe how to access a crowd to locate agitators - ✔✔-Rarely on the front line
-First to start a "chant"
-Baits the crowd
