Tcole Basic Jailer Course Exam With Questions And Answers #1.
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - correct answer is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state if
Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - correct answer is the regulatory agency
for all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - correct answer is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - correct answer the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty
and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - correct answer was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of state
officers and employees
Jail Climate - correct answer the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
Stress - correct answer a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
Communication - correct answer the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and information
Attitude - correct answer is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her
to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing
Race - correct answer generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
Ethnicity - correct answer refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - correct answer is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of the
universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - correct answer is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - correct answer a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - correct answer acting on the basis if prejudice
,Sexual Harassment - correct answer is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. And not returned or is unwelcome sexual or gender
based behavior
Booking - correct answer recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
Detainer - correct answer a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain a
person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. Or transfer to another
jurisdiction
Commitment - correct answer an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
Warrant - correct answer a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or
some other person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a person
accused of an offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - correct answer is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any
peace officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an
offense and bring him before that court immediately, or on a day or at a term stated in
the writ
Writ of Attachment - correct answer is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or
proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body of a
witness and bring him before court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or
forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - correct answer when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he shall
issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused
before him
Search - correct answer the examination of persons or property with the intention of
finding evidence ot in plain sight
Contraband - correct answer is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
Strip Search - correct answer when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be
necessary, inmates should undergo a through strip search for weapons and contraband
thsy may pose a threat to the security of safety of thr facility
, Cavity Search - correct answer basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
Tort - correct answer a civil or private wrong or injury for which s court will provide a
remedy in the form of an action for damages
Objective Classification - correct answer a formal process for separating and managing
inmates and administering facilities based upon agency mission, classification goals,
agency resources, and inmate program needs
Trustee - correct answer a person who, because of good conduct, is given some
measure of freedom in and around the prison or jail
Child - correct answer means a person who is: 10 but under 17
Mental Illness - correct answer illness, disease, or condition that either substantially
impacts a person's thought, perception of reality, emotional process, or judgement, or
grossly impairs a person's behavior, as manifested by recent disturbance behavior
Insanity - correct answer is considered "a diminished capacity and inability to tell right
fro wrong"
Psychosis - correct answer a group of serious and often debilitating mental disorders
that may be of organic or psychological origins and are characterized by some or all of
the following symptoms:
Impaired thinking and reasoning ability, perceptual distortions, inappropriate emotional
responses, inappropriate affect, regressive behavior, reduced impulse control and
impaired reasoning of reality
Delusion - correct answer false beliefs not based on factual information
Hallucination - correct answer distortions in the senses which cause the individual to
experience hearing/seeing something that is not there
HIV - correct answer is the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS - correct answer is the common abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
Tuberculosis - correct answer commonly referred to as TB, is an infectious disease
caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis
Communicable Disease - correct answer an illness that occurs through the transmission
of an infectious agent or its toxic products frk. Resivior to a susceptible host, either
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - correct answer is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state if
Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - correct answer is the regulatory agency
for all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - correct answer is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - correct answer the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty
and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - correct answer was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of state
officers and employees
Jail Climate - correct answer the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
Stress - correct answer a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
Communication - correct answer the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and information
Attitude - correct answer is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her
to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing
Race - correct answer generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
Ethnicity - correct answer refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - correct answer is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of the
universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - correct answer is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - correct answer a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - correct answer acting on the basis if prejudice
,Sexual Harassment - correct answer is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. And not returned or is unwelcome sexual or gender
based behavior
Booking - correct answer recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
Detainer - correct answer a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain a
person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. Or transfer to another
jurisdiction
Commitment - correct answer an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
Warrant - correct answer a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or
some other person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a person
accused of an offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - correct answer is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any
peace officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an
offense and bring him before that court immediately, or on a day or at a term stated in
the writ
Writ of Attachment - correct answer is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or
proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body of a
witness and bring him before court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or
forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - correct answer when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he shall
issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused
before him
Search - correct answer the examination of persons or property with the intention of
finding evidence ot in plain sight
Contraband - correct answer is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
Strip Search - correct answer when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be
necessary, inmates should undergo a through strip search for weapons and contraband
thsy may pose a threat to the security of safety of thr facility
, Cavity Search - correct answer basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
Tort - correct answer a civil or private wrong or injury for which s court will provide a
remedy in the form of an action for damages
Objective Classification - correct answer a formal process for separating and managing
inmates and administering facilities based upon agency mission, classification goals,
agency resources, and inmate program needs
Trustee - correct answer a person who, because of good conduct, is given some
measure of freedom in and around the prison or jail
Child - correct answer means a person who is: 10 but under 17
Mental Illness - correct answer illness, disease, or condition that either substantially
impacts a person's thought, perception of reality, emotional process, or judgement, or
grossly impairs a person's behavior, as manifested by recent disturbance behavior
Insanity - correct answer is considered "a diminished capacity and inability to tell right
fro wrong"
Psychosis - correct answer a group of serious and often debilitating mental disorders
that may be of organic or psychological origins and are characterized by some or all of
the following symptoms:
Impaired thinking and reasoning ability, perceptual distortions, inappropriate emotional
responses, inappropriate affect, regressive behavior, reduced impulse control and
impaired reasoning of reality
Delusion - correct answer false beliefs not based on factual information
Hallucination - correct answer distortions in the senses which cause the individual to
experience hearing/seeing something that is not there
HIV - correct answer is the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS - correct answer is the common abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
Tuberculosis - correct answer commonly referred to as TB, is an infectious disease
caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis
Communicable Disease - correct answer an illness that occurs through the transmission
of an infectious agent or its toxic products frk. Resivior to a susceptible host, either
