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ILLINOIS STATE POLICE SERGEANT EXAM 2025
WITH 300 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS/ ISP POLICE SERGEANT TEST 2025 PREP
QS AND AS (BRAND NEW!)
Anonymous Complaint can be received in how many
ways? - ..ANSWER...✓✓ 7
The emergency response plan designates the hierarchy of
command as follows the - ..ANSWER...✓✓ First
responding officer on duty at the incident location when
the emergency begins, The highest ranking officer upon
physical response to the incident.
Use of force statue - ..ANSWER...✓✓ 776.05
Serious physical injury - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Serious
physical harm great bodily harm or substantial harm
greater physical injury then what would result from a
simple battery. Injury that creates substantial risk of
death or disfigurement, disability or prolonged
impairment of function of any organ or body part.
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Last resort - ..ANSWER...✓✓ When all practical means to
avoid using deadly force Have been exhausted like verbal
commands pursuit non-deadly force Etc
Totality of circumstances - ..ANSWER...✓✓ The facts
circumstances known or reasonably perceived by the
officer at the time of the incident as a basis for a use of
force decision.
Physical control - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Compliance or custody
by empty hands or a leverage enhance techniques like
pain compliance, transporter restraint devices, take
downs and striking techniques.
reasonable force - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Maybe utilize in
situations which cannot be controlled otherwise. All other
alternatives should have been exhausted first or be
ineffective. The decision to use force and the degree of
force and Leslie based on what appears to be exact at the
time of action.
An officer need not retreat or desist from efforts to make
a lawful arrest because of - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Active
threatened or passive resistance.
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Uses of force that are excepted for persons without a
weapon - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Come along holds expandable
baton or other issued less lethal weapons do not use
these items on the subject head eyes groin or throat.
Passive resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Verbal or physical
refusal to comply with your lawful direction causing the
officer use physical techniques to establish control
examples are refuses to move, refuses to take hands out
of pocket or from behind back
Active resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Physically evasive
movements directed towards you like bracing tensing
pushing pulling to prevent you from establishing control.
Examples are physically anchors to a person or object to
prevent them from being removed. Braces or pulling
away when you grab their arm. Attempting to run away
when you touch or attempt to grab their arm or shoulder.
Aggressive Resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Hostile
movements towards you that are likely to cause physical
injury but not likely to cause death or great bodily harm to
you or others. Examples clenches fist and approaches
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you, pushes you as you try to take them into custody,
grabs you're body
Aggravated - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Over hostile movements,
attacking movements with or without a weapon which
create a reasonable belief by the officer that the subject
intends to cause and has the capability to cause great
bodily harm. Examples, subject refuses to drop knife
when ordered by Ofc and continues to move forward.
Subject shoots or points a gun at you, tries to hit you with
a car and there is no other means of invading the vehicle,
subject bites you.
When should you not use Deadly force - ..ANSWER...✓✓
To affect a arrest or prevent escape of a person
charged/convicted of a misdemeanor or traffic offense or
against an unarmed non-dangerous fleeing felon unless
in self-defense or defense of another.
Do not shoot your gun when.... - ..ANSWER...✓✓ The
circumstances do not provide a high probability of
striking the subject or there are substantial risk for
safety of other people including risk associated with
vehicle accidents. From or at a moving vehicle unless
deadly force is being used against you or someone else.
ILLINOIS STATE POLICE SERGEANT EXAM 2025
WITH 300 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS/ ISP POLICE SERGEANT TEST 2025 PREP
QS AND AS (BRAND NEW!)
Anonymous Complaint can be received in how many
ways? - ..ANSWER...✓✓ 7
The emergency response plan designates the hierarchy of
command as follows the - ..ANSWER...✓✓ First
responding officer on duty at the incident location when
the emergency begins, The highest ranking officer upon
physical response to the incident.
Use of force statue - ..ANSWER...✓✓ 776.05
Serious physical injury - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Serious
physical harm great bodily harm or substantial harm
greater physical injury then what would result from a
simple battery. Injury that creates substantial risk of
death or disfigurement, disability or prolonged
impairment of function of any organ or body part.
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Last resort - ..ANSWER...✓✓ When all practical means to
avoid using deadly force Have been exhausted like verbal
commands pursuit non-deadly force Etc
Totality of circumstances - ..ANSWER...✓✓ The facts
circumstances known or reasonably perceived by the
officer at the time of the incident as a basis for a use of
force decision.
Physical control - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Compliance or custody
by empty hands or a leverage enhance techniques like
pain compliance, transporter restraint devices, take
downs and striking techniques.
reasonable force - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Maybe utilize in
situations which cannot be controlled otherwise. All other
alternatives should have been exhausted first or be
ineffective. The decision to use force and the degree of
force and Leslie based on what appears to be exact at the
time of action.
An officer need not retreat or desist from efforts to make
a lawful arrest because of - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Active
threatened or passive resistance.
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Uses of force that are excepted for persons without a
weapon - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Come along holds expandable
baton or other issued less lethal weapons do not use
these items on the subject head eyes groin or throat.
Passive resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Verbal or physical
refusal to comply with your lawful direction causing the
officer use physical techniques to establish control
examples are refuses to move, refuses to take hands out
of pocket or from behind back
Active resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Physically evasive
movements directed towards you like bracing tensing
pushing pulling to prevent you from establishing control.
Examples are physically anchors to a person or object to
prevent them from being removed. Braces or pulling
away when you grab their arm. Attempting to run away
when you touch or attempt to grab their arm or shoulder.
Aggressive Resistance - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Hostile
movements towards you that are likely to cause physical
injury but not likely to cause death or great bodily harm to
you or others. Examples clenches fist and approaches
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you, pushes you as you try to take them into custody,
grabs you're body
Aggravated - ..ANSWER...✓✓ Over hostile movements,
attacking movements with or without a weapon which
create a reasonable belief by the officer that the subject
intends to cause and has the capability to cause great
bodily harm. Examples, subject refuses to drop knife
when ordered by Ofc and continues to move forward.
Subject shoots or points a gun at you, tries to hit you with
a car and there is no other means of invading the vehicle,
subject bites you.
When should you not use Deadly force - ..ANSWER...✓✓
To affect a arrest or prevent escape of a person
charged/convicted of a misdemeanor or traffic offense or
against an unarmed non-dangerous fleeing felon unless
in self-defense or defense of another.
Do not shoot your gun when.... - ..ANSWER...✓✓ The
circumstances do not provide a high probability of
striking the subject or there are substantial risk for
safety of other people including risk associated with
vehicle accidents. From or at a moving vehicle unless
deadly force is being used against you or someone else.
