IAHSS ADVANCED OFFICER UPDATED ACTUAL
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the common methods of patrol? - ✔✔Foot
K-9
Bicycle
Motorized
✔✔A dog's sense of smell is _______ times better and hearing is _______ times better
than a human's.
a.
b.
c.
d. - ✔✔c.
✔✔A security officer responding to a crime scene should do what?
a. Disregard his safety and arrive as soon as possible
b. Respond as quickly as possible, observing all safety practices
c. Wait for at lease one officer to provide backup
d. None of the above - ✔✔b. Respond as quickly as possible, observing all safety
practices
✔✔After arriving at a crime scene, what should the security officer do first?
a. Protect the scene from contamination
b. Protect his personal safety
c. Render aid to those injured
d. Question any suspects or witnesses - ✔✔b. Protect his personal safety
✔✔Which if these is an example of factual evidence?
a. Eyewitness testimony
b. Circumstantial evidence
c. Physical evidence
d. None of the above - ✔✔c. Physical evidence
,✔✔Which of these should an officer follow to be able to testify that the evidence
presented has merit?
a. Proper medical staff direction
b. Proper safety procedures
c. Proper confidentiality procedures
d. Proper chain of custody - ✔✔d. Proper chain of custody
✔✔Why are initial information gathering and proper note-taking key to a successful
investigation?
a. They memorialize information gathered at the scene from those involved
b. They refresh your memory for later report writing purposes
c. They are subject to discovery by the defense in a criminal case and thus can be
supoenaed
d. All of the above - ✔✔d. All of the above
✔✔When dealing with a personal-gain informant, what should the officer do?
a. Document the officer's interaction with the informant
b. Let the informant run the show
c. Become personally involved with the informant
d. Make promises to the informant that cannot be kept - ✔✔a. Document the officer's
interaction with the informant
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a recommended guideline when an outside agency
conducts an undercover investigation?
a. Insist that no person be submitted to entrapment
b. Require daily reports
c. Insist that no laws or policies ever be broken
d. Insist that all security department staff receive operational information - ✔✔d. Insist
that all security department staff receive operational information
✔✔Before using any covert monitoring devices, the officer should do what?
a. Notify the information system department
b. Notify the engineering department
c. Submit a covert investigation request to the human resources department
d. Review applicable state and federal laws - ✔✔d. Review applicable state and federal
laws
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a covert or undercover operations
protocol?
a. Strict, clear, and concise
b. Clearly spells out when covert operations can be performed
c. Formulated as an ongoing process
d. Has safeguards in place to prevent improper behavior - ✔✔c. Formulated as an
ongoing process
, ✔✔When arriving at a crime scene, which order should issues be addressed?
a. Protect the scene, protect yourself, render aid
b. Render aid, protect the scene, protect yourself
c. Protect yourself, protect the scene, render aid
d. Protect yourself, render aid, protect the scene - ✔✔d. Protect yourself, render aid,
protect the scene
✔✔What is an informant? - ✔✔ANY person that provides information to some sort of
authority to help with or identify a wrong (LE, SO, private agency, etc.)
✔✔What are the three types of informants? - ✔✔1. Concerned citizen
2. Public domain source (newspaper, TV, radio, court records, criminal history report)
3. "For personal gain" informant
✔✔What approach should be followed to determine appropriate protective measures
and security and safety practices for off-campus facilities?
a. The off-campus facility administrator decides
b. Security inspections and risk assessments
c. A qualified security professional decides
d. The healthcare administrator decides - ✔✔b. Security inspections and risk
assessments
✔✔What are three types of security-sensitive facilities that can be located off campus?
a. Laundry services, human resources, and senior administration offices
b. Research facilities, abortion facilities, and daycare centers
c. Centralized information technology/information services, patient record storage, and
home healthcare worker services and programs
d. Business services, laundry services, and information services - ✔✔c. Centralized
information technology/information services, patient record storage, and home
healthcare worker services and programs
✔✔What are four of the most important protective measures and security and safety
practices for off-campus facilities?
a. Ensure personal safety, duress alarms, violence training, and access control systems
are in place
b. Ensures employees drive safely, test their security equipment, report security
incidents, and know when they are in high crime neighborhoods
c. Ensure there are appropriate security policies and training, personnel and security
systems in place for employees, and security officers working the off-campus locations
d. Ensure security policies and personnel are in place, duress alarms are installed and
operational and employees know how to use them, and employees report security
incidents - ✔✔...
✔✔What are three ways off-campus workers can communicate security emergencies?
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the common methods of patrol? - ✔✔Foot
K-9
Bicycle
Motorized
✔✔A dog's sense of smell is _______ times better and hearing is _______ times better
than a human's.
a.
b.
c.
d. - ✔✔c.
✔✔A security officer responding to a crime scene should do what?
a. Disregard his safety and arrive as soon as possible
b. Respond as quickly as possible, observing all safety practices
c. Wait for at lease one officer to provide backup
d. None of the above - ✔✔b. Respond as quickly as possible, observing all safety
practices
✔✔After arriving at a crime scene, what should the security officer do first?
a. Protect the scene from contamination
b. Protect his personal safety
c. Render aid to those injured
d. Question any suspects or witnesses - ✔✔b. Protect his personal safety
✔✔Which if these is an example of factual evidence?
a. Eyewitness testimony
b. Circumstantial evidence
c. Physical evidence
d. None of the above - ✔✔c. Physical evidence
,✔✔Which of these should an officer follow to be able to testify that the evidence
presented has merit?
a. Proper medical staff direction
b. Proper safety procedures
c. Proper confidentiality procedures
d. Proper chain of custody - ✔✔d. Proper chain of custody
✔✔Why are initial information gathering and proper note-taking key to a successful
investigation?
a. They memorialize information gathered at the scene from those involved
b. They refresh your memory for later report writing purposes
c. They are subject to discovery by the defense in a criminal case and thus can be
supoenaed
d. All of the above - ✔✔d. All of the above
✔✔When dealing with a personal-gain informant, what should the officer do?
a. Document the officer's interaction with the informant
b. Let the informant run the show
c. Become personally involved with the informant
d. Make promises to the informant that cannot be kept - ✔✔a. Document the officer's
interaction with the informant
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a recommended guideline when an outside agency
conducts an undercover investigation?
a. Insist that no person be submitted to entrapment
b. Require daily reports
c. Insist that no laws or policies ever be broken
d. Insist that all security department staff receive operational information - ✔✔d. Insist
that all security department staff receive operational information
✔✔Before using any covert monitoring devices, the officer should do what?
a. Notify the information system department
b. Notify the engineering department
c. Submit a covert investigation request to the human resources department
d. Review applicable state and federal laws - ✔✔d. Review applicable state and federal
laws
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a covert or undercover operations
protocol?
a. Strict, clear, and concise
b. Clearly spells out when covert operations can be performed
c. Formulated as an ongoing process
d. Has safeguards in place to prevent improper behavior - ✔✔c. Formulated as an
ongoing process
, ✔✔When arriving at a crime scene, which order should issues be addressed?
a. Protect the scene, protect yourself, render aid
b. Render aid, protect the scene, protect yourself
c. Protect yourself, protect the scene, render aid
d. Protect yourself, render aid, protect the scene - ✔✔d. Protect yourself, render aid,
protect the scene
✔✔What is an informant? - ✔✔ANY person that provides information to some sort of
authority to help with or identify a wrong (LE, SO, private agency, etc.)
✔✔What are the three types of informants? - ✔✔1. Concerned citizen
2. Public domain source (newspaper, TV, radio, court records, criminal history report)
3. "For personal gain" informant
✔✔What approach should be followed to determine appropriate protective measures
and security and safety practices for off-campus facilities?
a. The off-campus facility administrator decides
b. Security inspections and risk assessments
c. A qualified security professional decides
d. The healthcare administrator decides - ✔✔b. Security inspections and risk
assessments
✔✔What are three types of security-sensitive facilities that can be located off campus?
a. Laundry services, human resources, and senior administration offices
b. Research facilities, abortion facilities, and daycare centers
c. Centralized information technology/information services, patient record storage, and
home healthcare worker services and programs
d. Business services, laundry services, and information services - ✔✔c. Centralized
information technology/information services, patient record storage, and home
healthcare worker services and programs
✔✔What are four of the most important protective measures and security and safety
practices for off-campus facilities?
a. Ensure personal safety, duress alarms, violence training, and access control systems
are in place
b. Ensures employees drive safely, test their security equipment, report security
incidents, and know when they are in high crime neighborhoods
c. Ensure there are appropriate security policies and training, personnel and security
systems in place for employees, and security officers working the off-campus locations
d. Ensure security policies and personnel are in place, duress alarms are installed and
operational and employees know how to use them, and employees report security
incidents - ✔✔...
✔✔What are three ways off-campus workers can communicate security emergencies?
