DETECTIVE TEST UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Arrest Warrant Powers
Answer:
Allow Police Officers to enter a premises where a suspect lives, to take him into custody, with reason to
believe he is inside. Authorizes a search where the person may be found. (Both Felony and misdemeanor)
Question:
2. Arrest Warrant Requirement
Answer:
Probable Cause, motive is irrelevant. Complaint is filed for the specific offense.
Question:
3. Criminal Summons
Answer:
In lieu of warrant, a promise to appear, excluding violent or specific charges.
Question:
4. Ramey Warrant
Answer:
Pre-Complaint Warrant. Written up as an affidavit and taken directly to the issuing judge/Magistrate,
bypassing the DA.
Question:
5. Ramey benefits
Answer:
Burden of proof is shifted to the suspect(Defendant) to prove the warrant was inadequate rather than the
officer's PC.
Question:
6. Hanging Victim Procedure
Answer:
Don't move; don't untie knot, do not remove suicide instrument.
Question:
7. Handling Crime gun
Answer:
While collecting, gloves, don't insert anything in barrel, grab by the grip.
Question:
8. Discomposure of submerged body
Answer:
Decomposes Slower
, Question:
9. Three types of evidence
Answer:
Physical, Prima Facie (evidence "on its face" ex training, calibration, time etc.) , Circumstantial
Question:
10. How is evidence contaminated
Answer:
1. Not properly secured
2. Wrongfully Mixed,
3. Altered from its original condition
Question:
11. Trace Evidence
Answer:
Hair, Minerals, Feathers, Skin
Question:
12. Systematic Indoor Crime Scene Search
Answer:
Use Quadrant / Zone Search
Question:
13. Terry V. Ohio
Answer:
Question:
14. Gant V. Arizona
Answer:
police may search the vehicle of its recent occupant after his arrest only if it is reasonable to believe that
the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the
offense of the arrest
Question:
15. Confidential Informant Policy
Answer:
Allowed for patrol, with prior approval. Designed for special operations.
Question:
16. DV victim request officer to serve restraining order
Answer:
Officers Shall serve the order and enter the DV TRO as served, when possible.
Question:
17. Which fingerprints must be developed? what is used to develop the prints
Answer:
Latent Prints - nynhydrin
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Arrest Warrant Powers
Answer:
Allow Police Officers to enter a premises where a suspect lives, to take him into custody, with reason to
believe he is inside. Authorizes a search where the person may be found. (Both Felony and misdemeanor)
Question:
2. Arrest Warrant Requirement
Answer:
Probable Cause, motive is irrelevant. Complaint is filed for the specific offense.
Question:
3. Criminal Summons
Answer:
In lieu of warrant, a promise to appear, excluding violent or specific charges.
Question:
4. Ramey Warrant
Answer:
Pre-Complaint Warrant. Written up as an affidavit and taken directly to the issuing judge/Magistrate,
bypassing the DA.
Question:
5. Ramey benefits
Answer:
Burden of proof is shifted to the suspect(Defendant) to prove the warrant was inadequate rather than the
officer's PC.
Question:
6. Hanging Victim Procedure
Answer:
Don't move; don't untie knot, do not remove suicide instrument.
Question:
7. Handling Crime gun
Answer:
While collecting, gloves, don't insert anything in barrel, grab by the grip.
Question:
8. Discomposure of submerged body
Answer:
Decomposes Slower
, Question:
9. Three types of evidence
Answer:
Physical, Prima Facie (evidence "on its face" ex training, calibration, time etc.) , Circumstantial
Question:
10. How is evidence contaminated
Answer:
1. Not properly secured
2. Wrongfully Mixed,
3. Altered from its original condition
Question:
11. Trace Evidence
Answer:
Hair, Minerals, Feathers, Skin
Question:
12. Systematic Indoor Crime Scene Search
Answer:
Use Quadrant / Zone Search
Question:
13. Terry V. Ohio
Answer:
Question:
14. Gant V. Arizona
Answer:
police may search the vehicle of its recent occupant after his arrest only if it is reasonable to believe that
the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the
offense of the arrest
Question:
15. Confidential Informant Policy
Answer:
Allowed for patrol, with prior approval. Designed for special operations.
Question:
16. DV victim request officer to serve restraining order
Answer:
Officers Shall serve the order and enter the DV TRO as served, when possible.
Question:
17. Which fingerprints must be developed? what is used to develop the prints
Answer:
Latent Prints - nynhydrin
