FLETC UPTP Exam 1: 2026/2027 LATEST
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Identify elements in the use of authority -✓✓ Power
Force
Discretion
Control
Influence
Leadership
Command Presence
(PFCDICL)
• Identify the core values of law enforcement officers and how they influence an officer's
use of authority -✓✓ honesty
courage
compassion
respect
integrity
fairness
• Identify common issues related to ethical behavior in law enforcement environments -
✓✓ Misuse of gov't vehicle
Misuse of gov't property
Misuse of gov't issued travel charge card
Misuse of authority/position
Improper disclosure of classified information
Unlawful acceptance of things of value (gifts, entertainment, favors)
• Identify key terms related to ethical behavior in law enforcement environment -✓✓
Values
Ethics
Morals
Moral Knowing
Moral Feeling
Moral Action
• Identify influences that affect ethical decision making -✓✓ Peer pressure
slippery slope
rationalization
noble cause
noble cause corruption
street level bureaucracy
hypervigilance
victim-based thinking
,continuum of compromise
(Acts of Omission-failure, Acts of Commission/Administrative-failure of agency policy,
Acts of Commission/Criminal-committing criminal acts)
(Pink Slippers Running Near Super Hot Victims)
• Identify critical thinking concepts & tools associated with making ethical decisions -✓✓
Toolset
Skillset
Mindset
Heartset
Moral Courage
• Identify essential elements of ethically serving & protecting a culturally diverse U.S. -
✓✓ Culture
Cultural Competency
Stereotypes
Racial Profiling
Intercultural Communication Competency
Procedural Justice
(CCSRIP)
• Identify elements of sexual harassment -✓✓ Quid Pro Quo: something for something
-Tangible Employment Action: significant change in employment status
Hostile Work Environment
(ex. verbal, non-verbal, graphic, physical)
• Branches of Government -✓✓ Legislative, Executive, Judicial
• 1st Amendment -✓✓ Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, & Petition
• 4th Amendment -✓✓ Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
• exclusionary rule -✓✓ a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a
criminal trial
• 5th Amendment -✓✓ Criminal Proceedings
Due Process (Fundamental Fairness)
Eminent Domain
Double Jeopardy
Protection from Self-incrimination
• 6th Amendment -✓✓ Right to a fair, speedy trial
• 8th Amendment -✓✓ excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishment
, • 14th Amendment -✓✓ Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are
guaranteed EQUAL PROTECTION of the laws
• Use of Force -✓✓ 4th Amendment, Facts & Circumstances make use of force
reasonable
• Graham Factors (Graham V. Connor 4th Amendment) -✓✓ Tense, Uncertain, Rapidly
Evolving
Severity of the crime
Immediate threat to officers or others *most important*, Resisting arrest
attempting to evade arrest
• Graham Factors (Graham V. Connor 4th Amendment)... continued -✓✓ # of officers v.
# of suspects
size age condition & skillset v. suspects
distance
duration of action
injury to suspect/officer
pre-assault indicators
availability of weapons
facts known at time force was used (violent/mental history, alcohol/drugs)
environmental factors (daytime/reduced light)
totality of circumstances
• Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 383 (2007): -✓✓ Use of deadly force -> imposed serious
risk to officers/others
• Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985) -✓✓ Use of deadly force - used to stop threat
(Probable cause & Threat of serious physical harm to officers or others)
Where/when FEASIBLE, the officer must give some warning of the intent to use deadly
force- deadly force must represent immediate danger)
• Qualified Immunity -✓✓ the protection of officers against being sued for their actions
under certain circumstances excluding: the plainly incompetent & those who knowingly
violate the law
• Terry v. Ohio 1968: Stop and Frisk/Terry Stop -✓✓ Police can search and seize if they
have probable cause
• Legislative Branch -✓✓ Propose/make the law
Ex: Congress
• Executive Branch -✓✓ Enforce the law
Ex: President & People
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Identify elements in the use of authority -✓✓ Power
Force
Discretion
Control
Influence
Leadership
Command Presence
(PFCDICL)
• Identify the core values of law enforcement officers and how they influence an officer's
use of authority -✓✓ honesty
courage
compassion
respect
integrity
fairness
• Identify common issues related to ethical behavior in law enforcement environments -
✓✓ Misuse of gov't vehicle
Misuse of gov't property
Misuse of gov't issued travel charge card
Misuse of authority/position
Improper disclosure of classified information
Unlawful acceptance of things of value (gifts, entertainment, favors)
• Identify key terms related to ethical behavior in law enforcement environment -✓✓
Values
Ethics
Morals
Moral Knowing
Moral Feeling
Moral Action
• Identify influences that affect ethical decision making -✓✓ Peer pressure
slippery slope
rationalization
noble cause
noble cause corruption
street level bureaucracy
hypervigilance
victim-based thinking
,continuum of compromise
(Acts of Omission-failure, Acts of Commission/Administrative-failure of agency policy,
Acts of Commission/Criminal-committing criminal acts)
(Pink Slippers Running Near Super Hot Victims)
• Identify critical thinking concepts & tools associated with making ethical decisions -✓✓
Toolset
Skillset
Mindset
Heartset
Moral Courage
• Identify essential elements of ethically serving & protecting a culturally diverse U.S. -
✓✓ Culture
Cultural Competency
Stereotypes
Racial Profiling
Intercultural Communication Competency
Procedural Justice
(CCSRIP)
• Identify elements of sexual harassment -✓✓ Quid Pro Quo: something for something
-Tangible Employment Action: significant change in employment status
Hostile Work Environment
(ex. verbal, non-verbal, graphic, physical)
• Branches of Government -✓✓ Legislative, Executive, Judicial
• 1st Amendment -✓✓ Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, & Petition
• 4th Amendment -✓✓ Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
• exclusionary rule -✓✓ a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a
criminal trial
• 5th Amendment -✓✓ Criminal Proceedings
Due Process (Fundamental Fairness)
Eminent Domain
Double Jeopardy
Protection from Self-incrimination
• 6th Amendment -✓✓ Right to a fair, speedy trial
• 8th Amendment -✓✓ excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishment
, • 14th Amendment -✓✓ Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are
guaranteed EQUAL PROTECTION of the laws
• Use of Force -✓✓ 4th Amendment, Facts & Circumstances make use of force
reasonable
• Graham Factors (Graham V. Connor 4th Amendment) -✓✓ Tense, Uncertain, Rapidly
Evolving
Severity of the crime
Immediate threat to officers or others *most important*, Resisting arrest
attempting to evade arrest
• Graham Factors (Graham V. Connor 4th Amendment)... continued -✓✓ # of officers v.
# of suspects
size age condition & skillset v. suspects
distance
duration of action
injury to suspect/officer
pre-assault indicators
availability of weapons
facts known at time force was used (violent/mental history, alcohol/drugs)
environmental factors (daytime/reduced light)
totality of circumstances
• Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 383 (2007): -✓✓ Use of deadly force -> imposed serious
risk to officers/others
• Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985) -✓✓ Use of deadly force - used to stop threat
(Probable cause & Threat of serious physical harm to officers or others)
Where/when FEASIBLE, the officer must give some warning of the intent to use deadly
force- deadly force must represent immediate danger)
• Qualified Immunity -✓✓ the protection of officers against being sued for their actions
under certain circumstances excluding: the plainly incompetent & those who knowingly
violate the law
• Terry v. Ohio 1968: Stop and Frisk/Terry Stop -✓✓ Police can search and seize if they
have probable cause
• Legislative Branch -✓✓ Propose/make the law
Ex: Congress
• Executive Branch -✓✓ Enforce the law
Ex: President & People
