POLICE ADMINISTRATION PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
2026
◉ 4 core principles of CompStat.
Answer: 1 Accurate and timely intelligence
2 Rapid deployment of resources
3 Effective tactics and strategies of enforcement focusing on visible
street crimes or quality-of-life crimes
4 Relentless follow-up and assessment
◉ Are CompStat and community policing reactive or proactive?.
Answer: preventative and proactive
◉ The SARA model is known as problem-oriented policing. Where
did it originate?.
Answer: Newport News, Virginia
◉ What is the SARA model's goal?.
Answer: reassess the traditional, incident-driven aspects of police
work, and fundamentally change the way police viewed its mission
, ◉ Explain the Scanning stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Officers are encouraged to group individual, related
incidents that come to their attention as problems and define these
problems in more precise and useful terms.
◉ Explain the Analysis stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Officers collect information from a variety of public and
private sources with the goal of understanding the scope, nature,
and causes of the problem and formulate a variety of options for its
resolution.
◉ Explain the Response stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Using the knowledge gained in the analysis stage to develop
and implement solutions with the assistance of citizens, businesses,
other police units, other public and private organizations, and
anyone else who can help develop a program of action.
◉ Explain the Analysis stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Evaluating the impact and the effectiveness of the
responses.
◉ Where did the CAPS model of community policing originate?.
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
2026
◉ 4 core principles of CompStat.
Answer: 1 Accurate and timely intelligence
2 Rapid deployment of resources
3 Effective tactics and strategies of enforcement focusing on visible
street crimes or quality-of-life crimes
4 Relentless follow-up and assessment
◉ Are CompStat and community policing reactive or proactive?.
Answer: preventative and proactive
◉ The SARA model is known as problem-oriented policing. Where
did it originate?.
Answer: Newport News, Virginia
◉ What is the SARA model's goal?.
Answer: reassess the traditional, incident-driven aspects of police
work, and fundamentally change the way police viewed its mission
, ◉ Explain the Scanning stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Officers are encouraged to group individual, related
incidents that come to their attention as problems and define these
problems in more precise and useful terms.
◉ Explain the Analysis stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Officers collect information from a variety of public and
private sources with the goal of understanding the scope, nature,
and causes of the problem and formulate a variety of options for its
resolution.
◉ Explain the Response stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Using the knowledge gained in the analysis stage to develop
and implement solutions with the assistance of citizens, businesses,
other police units, other public and private organizations, and
anyone else who can help develop a program of action.
◉ Explain the Analysis stage of the SARA model..
Answer: Evaluating the impact and the effectiveness of the
responses.
◉ Where did the CAPS model of community policing originate?.
