MINNESOTA POST TEST EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS VERIFIED AND CORRECT.
MSS 626.8475 Duty to Intercede and Report - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Requires
peace officers to intercede and report another peace officer using illegal or
unreasonable force.
MSS 626.8455- Community Policing Techniques - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the
systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address
the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social
disorder, and fear of crime.
community partnerships - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅collaborative partnerships
between the law enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve
to develop solutions to problems and increase trust in police
organizational transformation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the alignment of
organizational management, structure, personnel, and information systems to support
community partnerships and proactive problem solving.
problem solving - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the process of engaging in the proactive
and systematic examination of identified problems to develop and evaluate effective
responses.
Different types of policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅proactive, responsive,
problem-oriented, problem targeting
proactive policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the theory and practice of employing
criminals before they commit a crime, thereby preventing crime from taking place in the
first place.
Problem oriented policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅diagnosing and solving
problems that are increasing crime risks, usually in areas that are seeing comparatively
high levels of crime
implicit bias - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅attitudes, prejudices, and judgments that we
unconsciously hold about people or groups
Practice question: during a building search in a warehouse on a possible burglary in
progress call, you see another officer examine a new pack of golf balls and then put
,them into his cargo pocket before continuing his search. Your best action is to: -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Ask the officer why he took the golf balls and attempt
to handle the situation there
B. It's not an issue because there was no ethics violation or crime committed
C. Continue with your search and take no action because you are not a supervisor
D. Contact your supervisor and explain what happened
Practice Question: While working an afternoon shift, you are on the scene of a missing
child call in a residential neighborhood in your city. While walking through a yard, you
are stopped by a neighbor. He asks if you can conduct a brief premise survey to see if
his house is reasonably protected against burglary. The best way to handle this
situation is to: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Stop by your search for the child
because there are other officers on the call and the resident is asking for assistance
B. Ignore the resident because the missing child call is a higher priority
C. Explain to the resident that you are involved in a call and that you will follow-up with
them later in the day
D. Call a supervisor to handle the request
Practice Question: Community policing links police effectiveness to what? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅A. Productive interaction with the community being served
B. Interrelationships between cooperative police agencies
C. Efficient utilization of existing personnel
D. Optimized usage of advanced technology
Practice Question: Which of the following best describes the difference between
extortion and briber? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Extortion involves networks of
officers
B. Extortion is initiated by the officer
C. Extortion involves only high-ranking officers
D. Extortion is initiated by the citizen
Crime - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Conduct prohibited by statute for which the actor
may be sentenced to imprisonment
Bodily Harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Physical pain or injury, illness or any
impairment of physical condition
Substantial bodily harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅bodily injury which involves a
temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial
loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a
fracture of any bodily member
Great Bodily Harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Bodily injury which creates a high
probability of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes
, a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or
organ or other serious bodily harm
Dangerous weapon - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- any firearm, whether loaded or
unloaded
- any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily
harm
- any combustible or flammable liquid
-other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or is intended to be used,
is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm
- any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily harm
Conviction - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅any of the following accepted and recorded
by the court: a plea or guilty; or a verdict of guilty by a jury or finding a guilty by the court
Direct evidence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Directly links a person to a crime;
demonstrates the ultimate fact to be proved. Direct evidence is the testimony of a
person who claims to have personal knowledge of the commission of the the crime
which has been charge, such as an eyewitness
Circumstantial evidence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅indirect evidence that does not,
on its face, prove a fact in issue but gives rise to a logical inference that the fact exists.
Circumstantial evidence requires drawing additional reasonable inferences in order to
support the claim.
Petty misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅an offense prohibited by stature,
which does not constitute a crime. Punishable by a fine of up to $300
Misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime punishable by imprisonment of up
to 90 days or a fine of $1000 or both.
Gross Misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime punishable by
imprisonment of up to one (1) year or a fine of $3,000 or both.
Felony - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime for which the sentence of imprisonment
for more than one (1) year may be imposed.
Search Warrant - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅an order in writing, in the name of the
state, signed by a court other than a court exercising probate jurisdiction, directed to a
peace officer, commanding the peace officer to make a search as authorized by law and
hold any item seized, subject to the order of a court
Arrest Warrant - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a document issued by a judge or
magistrate that authorizes the police to take someone accused of a crime into custody
ANSWERS VERIFIED AND CORRECT.
MSS 626.8475 Duty to Intercede and Report - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Requires
peace officers to intercede and report another peace officer using illegal or
unreasonable force.
MSS 626.8455- Community Policing Techniques - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the
systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address
the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social
disorder, and fear of crime.
community partnerships - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅collaborative partnerships
between the law enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve
to develop solutions to problems and increase trust in police
organizational transformation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the alignment of
organizational management, structure, personnel, and information systems to support
community partnerships and proactive problem solving.
problem solving - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the process of engaging in the proactive
and systematic examination of identified problems to develop and evaluate effective
responses.
Different types of policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅proactive, responsive,
problem-oriented, problem targeting
proactive policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the theory and practice of employing
criminals before they commit a crime, thereby preventing crime from taking place in the
first place.
Problem oriented policing - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅diagnosing and solving
problems that are increasing crime risks, usually in areas that are seeing comparatively
high levels of crime
implicit bias - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅attitudes, prejudices, and judgments that we
unconsciously hold about people or groups
Practice question: during a building search in a warehouse on a possible burglary in
progress call, you see another officer examine a new pack of golf balls and then put
,them into his cargo pocket before continuing his search. Your best action is to: -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Ask the officer why he took the golf balls and attempt
to handle the situation there
B. It's not an issue because there was no ethics violation or crime committed
C. Continue with your search and take no action because you are not a supervisor
D. Contact your supervisor and explain what happened
Practice Question: While working an afternoon shift, you are on the scene of a missing
child call in a residential neighborhood in your city. While walking through a yard, you
are stopped by a neighbor. He asks if you can conduct a brief premise survey to see if
his house is reasonably protected against burglary. The best way to handle this
situation is to: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Stop by your search for the child
because there are other officers on the call and the resident is asking for assistance
B. Ignore the resident because the missing child call is a higher priority
C. Explain to the resident that you are involved in a call and that you will follow-up with
them later in the day
D. Call a supervisor to handle the request
Practice Question: Community policing links police effectiveness to what? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅A. Productive interaction with the community being served
B. Interrelationships between cooperative police agencies
C. Efficient utilization of existing personnel
D. Optimized usage of advanced technology
Practice Question: Which of the following best describes the difference between
extortion and briber? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Extortion involves networks of
officers
B. Extortion is initiated by the officer
C. Extortion involves only high-ranking officers
D. Extortion is initiated by the citizen
Crime - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Conduct prohibited by statute for which the actor
may be sentenced to imprisonment
Bodily Harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Physical pain or injury, illness or any
impairment of physical condition
Substantial bodily harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅bodily injury which involves a
temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial
loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a
fracture of any bodily member
Great Bodily Harm - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Bodily injury which creates a high
probability of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes
, a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or
organ or other serious bodily harm
Dangerous weapon - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- any firearm, whether loaded or
unloaded
- any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily
harm
- any combustible or flammable liquid
-other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or is intended to be used,
is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm
- any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily harm
Conviction - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅any of the following accepted and recorded
by the court: a plea or guilty; or a verdict of guilty by a jury or finding a guilty by the court
Direct evidence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Directly links a person to a crime;
demonstrates the ultimate fact to be proved. Direct evidence is the testimony of a
person who claims to have personal knowledge of the commission of the the crime
which has been charge, such as an eyewitness
Circumstantial evidence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅indirect evidence that does not,
on its face, prove a fact in issue but gives rise to a logical inference that the fact exists.
Circumstantial evidence requires drawing additional reasonable inferences in order to
support the claim.
Petty misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅an offense prohibited by stature,
which does not constitute a crime. Punishable by a fine of up to $300
Misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime punishable by imprisonment of up
to 90 days or a fine of $1000 or both.
Gross Misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime punishable by
imprisonment of up to one (1) year or a fine of $3,000 or both.
Felony - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a crime for which the sentence of imprisonment
for more than one (1) year may be imposed.
Search Warrant - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅an order in writing, in the name of the
state, signed by a court other than a court exercising probate jurisdiction, directed to a
peace officer, commanding the peace officer to make a search as authorized by law and
hold any item seized, subject to the order of a court
Arrest Warrant - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a document issued by a judge or
magistrate that authorizes the police to take someone accused of a crime into custody
