Police Sergeant Exam NFLST Verified
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14th ammendment - ANSWER✔✔-due process of law
Arrest - ANSWER✔✔-intention, authority, custody
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
Mapp v. Ohio - ANSWER✔✔-Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the
states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
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,Search Warrant Exceptions - ANSWER✔✔-Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle
inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
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
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - ANSWER✔✔-movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - ANSWER✔✔-can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe
will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
inductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - ANSWER✔✔-helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - ANSWER✔✔-get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area
with description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - ANSWER✔✔-primary is where first criminal act
occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
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.
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, 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.
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
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - ANSWER✔✔-Orientation - far, Relationship
- medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
Class characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-not completely original, like the print of a Nike
shoe
Individual characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - ANSWER✔✔-prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - ANSWER✔✔-prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
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14th ammendment - ANSWER✔✔-due process of law
Arrest - ANSWER✔✔-intention, authority, custody
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
Mapp v. Ohio - ANSWER✔✔-Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the
states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA GREENWAYS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,Search Warrant Exceptions - ANSWER✔✔-Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle
inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
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
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - ANSWER✔✔-movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - ANSWER✔✔-can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe
will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
inductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - ANSWER✔✔-helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - ANSWER✔✔-get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area
with description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - ANSWER✔✔-primary is where first criminal act
occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
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.
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, 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.
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
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - ANSWER✔✔-Orientation - far, Relationship
- medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
Class characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-not completely original, like the print of a Nike
shoe
Individual characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - ANSWER✔✔-prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - ANSWER✔✔-prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
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