LAW ENFORCEMENT EXAM 4 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Patronage System
Answer:
An approach to managing the bureaucracy whereby people are appointed to important government
positions as a reward for political services they have rendered and because of their partisan loyalty
Question:
2. civil service system
Answer:
the practice of hiring government workers on the basis of open, competitive examinations and merit.
Opposite to patronage system
Question:
3. Background Investigations in policing
Answer:
The most expensive and time-consuming phase of the hiring process is the background investigation.
•The investigator will draw on official records and will conduct in-depth interviews with friends, family
members, coworkers, acquaintances, and even former acquaintances; to investigate their past
Question:
4. Interviews in policing
Answer:
oral interviews are conducted on the recruit and the family/friends of the recruit, this follows psychological
testing as well, with psychiatrists
Question:
5. Polygraph
Answer:
a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses
accompanying emotion. Used to encourage honesty, and the machines have their faults. Evidence is not
allowed to be used in court to prove guilt.
Question:
6. Medical and Drug Screening
Answer:
One of the last steps in the hiring process
•Besides detecting past or current drug use, screening also assesses medical fitness to perform the job.
•Vision
•Weight
•Height
•Physical ability and strength •Residency
•Education
, Question:
7. Education Requirements
Answer:
higher education has no impacts, but there are written exams
Question:
8. Griggs v. Duke Power Company
Answer:
Prohibited an agency from requiring multiple tests to prevent groups who are less educated to gain
employment
Question:
9. Castro v. Beecher
Answer:
Minorities in Massachusetts felt that educational requirement prevented employment
•Civil service employment
•Held that police applicants must have a high school education
Question:
10. August Vollmer
Answer:
stressed the importance of education in policing. Campaigned for college-educated personnel
Question:
11. Graduate Requirements for Executives
Answer:
They developed post graduate programs for senior police executives. Educational opportunities for all
police regardless of rank
Question:
12. Police Academy
Answer:
a facility or program for the education and training of police officers. Candidates who successfully passes
the hiring process enters an academy
•Candidates learn various aspects of policing and criminal justice
•Technical knowledge - Law & procedure, use of force
•Problem solving
•Public interaction, sensitivity to marginalize groups or communities
•Mental Health
Academy training learn to have a heightened sense of suspicion.
Question:
13. Field Training Officer Approach
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Patronage System
Answer:
An approach to managing the bureaucracy whereby people are appointed to important government
positions as a reward for political services they have rendered and because of their partisan loyalty
Question:
2. civil service system
Answer:
the practice of hiring government workers on the basis of open, competitive examinations and merit.
Opposite to patronage system
Question:
3. Background Investigations in policing
Answer:
The most expensive and time-consuming phase of the hiring process is the background investigation.
•The investigator will draw on official records and will conduct in-depth interviews with friends, family
members, coworkers, acquaintances, and even former acquaintances; to investigate their past
Question:
4. Interviews in policing
Answer:
oral interviews are conducted on the recruit and the family/friends of the recruit, this follows psychological
testing as well, with psychiatrists
Question:
5. Polygraph
Answer:
a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses
accompanying emotion. Used to encourage honesty, and the machines have their faults. Evidence is not
allowed to be used in court to prove guilt.
Question:
6. Medical and Drug Screening
Answer:
One of the last steps in the hiring process
•Besides detecting past or current drug use, screening also assesses medical fitness to perform the job.
•Vision
•Weight
•Height
•Physical ability and strength •Residency
•Education
, Question:
7. Education Requirements
Answer:
higher education has no impacts, but there are written exams
Question:
8. Griggs v. Duke Power Company
Answer:
Prohibited an agency from requiring multiple tests to prevent groups who are less educated to gain
employment
Question:
9. Castro v. Beecher
Answer:
Minorities in Massachusetts felt that educational requirement prevented employment
•Civil service employment
•Held that police applicants must have a high school education
Question:
10. August Vollmer
Answer:
stressed the importance of education in policing. Campaigned for college-educated personnel
Question:
11. Graduate Requirements for Executives
Answer:
They developed post graduate programs for senior police executives. Educational opportunities for all
police regardless of rank
Question:
12. Police Academy
Answer:
a facility or program for the education and training of police officers. Candidates who successfully passes
the hiring process enters an academy
•Candidates learn various aspects of policing and criminal justice
•Technical knowledge - Law & procedure, use of force
•Problem solving
•Public interaction, sensitivity to marginalize groups or communities
•Mental Health
Academy training learn to have a heightened sense of suspicion.
Question:
13. Field Training Officer Approach
