SERGEANT EXAM REVIEW NFLST 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
RESPONSES GRADED A+
◉ 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)
◉ 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.
◉ 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
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
RESPONSES GRADED A+
◉ 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)
◉ 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.
◉ 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
