Sergeant Exam NFLST UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
14th ammendment - CORRECT ANSWER - due process of law
Arrest - CORRECT ANSWER - intention, authority, custody
Arrest warrant - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Established the exclusionary rule was applicable
to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - CORRECT ANSWER - Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle
inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT ANSWER - movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - CORRECT ANSWER - can search a vehicle when reasonable to
believe will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
,inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - CORRECT ANSWER - helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - primary is where first criminal act
occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - CORRECT ANSWER - processed before other items/bodies to
make sure no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.
3 kinds of evidence - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone,
Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - CORRECT ANSWER - Orientation - far,
Relationship - medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
, Class characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - not completely original, like the print of a
Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or
tire.
Impressions - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt,
snow, etc.
Plastic prints - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty,
fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - CORRECT ANSWER - fingers contaminated with an oily
substance touch a clean surface
Latent/invisible - CORRECT ANSWER - unseen or hidden prints that are developed to
expose them
Forensic ondontology - CORRECT ANSWER - intersection of dentistry and criminal law,
i.e. bite mark analysis and identification.
Signature - CORRECT ANSWER - The striations on a bullet after passing through the
bore of the barrel of a rifle or pistol
Touch DNA - CORRECT ANSWER - small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect
skin shavings after touching something.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
14th ammendment - CORRECT ANSWER - due process of law
Arrest - CORRECT ANSWER - intention, authority, custody
Arrest warrant - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Established the exclusionary rule was applicable
to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - CORRECT ANSWER - Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle
inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT ANSWER - movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - CORRECT ANSWER - can search a vehicle when reasonable to
believe will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
,inductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - CORRECT ANSWER - helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - primary is where first criminal act
occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - CORRECT ANSWER - processed before other items/bodies to
make sure no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.
3 kinds of evidence - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone,
Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - CORRECT ANSWER - Orientation - far,
Relationship - medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
, Class characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - not completely original, like the print of a
Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER - fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or
tire.
Impressions - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt,
snow, etc.
Plastic prints - CORRECT ANSWER - prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty,
fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - CORRECT ANSWER - fingers contaminated with an oily
substance touch a clean surface
Latent/invisible - CORRECT ANSWER - unseen or hidden prints that are developed to
expose them
Forensic ondontology - CORRECT ANSWER - intersection of dentistry and criminal law,
i.e. bite mark analysis and identification.
Signature - CORRECT ANSWER - The striations on a bullet after passing through the
bore of the barrel of a rifle or pistol
Touch DNA - CORRECT ANSWER - small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect
skin shavings after touching something.
