POLICE FIELDS EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL DETAILED ANSWERS . STUDY GUIDE . LATEST UPDATE 2025

POLICE FIELDS EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL DETAILED
ANSWERS . STUDY GUIDE . LATEST UPDATE 2025




QUESTION: Arrest - ANSWER-intention, authority, custody




QUESTION: Arrest warrant - ANSWER-1. Name of the state

2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)

3. Person who will be arrested

4. Offense Committed

5. Date, time, place of occurrence

6. Name of victim

7. Description of Offense




QUESTION: Mapp v. Ohio - ANSWER-Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states
(evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)

,QUESTION: Search Warrant Exceptions - ANSWER-Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory, incident
to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view




QUESTION: Chimel v. California (1969) - ANSWER-search is valid of a person and area under him
immediate control form which he could produce a weapon or destroy evidence




QUESTION: Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - ANSWER-movable vehicle rule




QUESTION: Arizona v. Gant (2009) - ANSWER-can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will find
evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.




QUESTION: inductive reasoning - ANSWER-factual and logical explanation of the crime




QUESTION: deductive reasoning - ANSWER-hypothesis




QUESTION: neighborhood canvas - ANSWER-helpful in about 20% of investigations




QUESTION: vehicle canvas - ANSWER-get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area with
description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.




QUESTION: Primary v. secondary scenes - ANSWER-primary is where first criminal act occurred,
secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.

,QUESTION: Evidence in "open view" - ANSWER-processed before other items/bodies to make sure no
undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.




QUESTION: 3 kinds of evidence - ANSWER-Corpus delicti evidence - evidence that is needed to prove the
commission of the crime




Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the scene or victim to the suspect




Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at the scene.




QUESTION: Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the boundary has
been determined - ANSWER-Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel




QUESTION: Digital photography (far/medium/close) - ANSWER-Orientation - far, Relationship - medium,
Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence




QUESTION: Class characteristics - ANSWER-not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe




QUESTION: Individual characteristics - ANSWER-fingerprints/footprints, etc.




QUESTION: Residue prints - ANSWER-prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.

, QUESTION: Impressions - ANSWER-prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.




QUESTION: Plastic prints - ANSWER-prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods, caulking




QUESTION: Patent/contaminated/visible - ANSWER-fingers contaminated with an oily substance touch a
clean surface




QUESTION: Latent/invisible - ANSWER-unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them




QUESTION: Forensic ondontology - ANSWER-intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark
analysis and identification.




QUESTION: Signature - ANSWER-The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the barrel of
a rifle or pistol




QUESTION: Touch DNA - ANSWER-small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings after
touching something.




QUESTION: Handwriting samples - ANSWER-15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects