UTAH SFO ACTUAL 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Negative effects of officer misconduct - ✔✔• Public embarrassment • Compromise
officer's safety • Compromise police effectiveness
✔✔Office of the Inspector General (OIG) - ✔✔Audits, investigates, inspects programs
and operations of DHS. Recommends ways to be as effective, efficient, and economical
as possible
✔✔Testimonial Evidence - ✔✔Statement made under oath
✔✔3 branches of government - ✔✔Legislative, Executive, Judicial
✔✔In-Custody Death - ✔✔Any unintentional death that occurs while a subject is in
police custody
✔✔4 principles of DTH - ✔✔Distance, Awareness, Balance, Self Control
✔✔Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) - ✔✔fight, flight, freeze
✔✔8th Amendment - ✔✔No cruel or unusual punishment
✔✔search warrant - ✔✔A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a
suspect's home or business and take specific items as evidence
✔✔fine motor skills - ✔✔Coordination of small muscle movements. Between hands,
fingers, & eyes
✔✔Actus Reus - ✔✔criminal act
✔✔Protocol when giving vehicle description - ✔✔Color, Year, Make/Model, Body style,
All other identifying marks, License
✔✔Punishment for infraction - ✔✔Fine only
✔✔Sudden Death - ✔✔Unexpected death of individuals who were in stable medical
condition less than 24 hours previously with no evidence of a non-cardiac cause
✔✔Abandoned property search - ✔✔May be searched if it appears to a reasonable
officer that the property is abandoned
,✔✔Miranda v. Arizona - ✔✔Whenever a person is taken into custody, they must be
given warnings of specific rights regarding self-incrimination or any statements made
will be inadmissible
✔✔What is Garrity? - ✔✔To answer truthfully, Protection from self-incrimination,
Disciplinary actions for lying
✔✔Consent search - ✔✔Search conducted with consent that is voluntary and obtained
from a person with the authority to give that consent
✔✔US Secret Service - ✔✔Protect the president and money
✔✔CIT - ✔✔Crisis Intervention Team
✔✔Over modulation - ✔✔Speaking too close to the microphone or yelling into the
microphone
✔✔Ways hazardous material can enter the body - ✔✔Inhale, Ingestion
✔✔Injection/puncture - ✔✔
✔✔Touch - ✔✔Absorb in skin
✔✔Brown v. Illinois (1975) - ✔✔Confessions or statements obtained as a result of an
illegal arrest will not be admissible even though Miranda warnings are given.
✔✔6 key components of field notes - ✔✔Names of suspects/witnesses, Names of
officers or others that assist, Times and Dates, Location, Additional Info, Circumstance
of crime or incident.
✔✔What cases does Juvenile Court hear? - ✔✔Custody of children, Minors that commit
violations of the law under 18 years old.
✔✔Demonstrative evidence - ✔✔Photographs, Diagrams, Maps, Models.
✔✔Cooper Color Code - ✔✔White: Unaware, unprepared; Yellow: Relaxed, alert;
Orange: Alert, specific recognize threat; Red: Fight, engaging threat, ready to fight;
Black: Sensory overload, unable to react.
✔✔When do juvenile cases get sent to District Court? - ✔✔Minors over 16 that commit
Murder or Aggravated Murder.
✔✔Terry Frisk - ✔✔Quick pat down of outer clothes for weapons.
, ✔✔3 levels of conflict resolution - ✔✔Non-Verbal, Verbal, Physical.
✔✔Interrogation - ✔✔Questioning a person suspected of having committed an offense
or who is reluctant to make full disclosure of information that is pertinent to an
investigation.
✔✔Jury trial - ✔✔A trial before a judge and a jury.
✔✔Punishment for a capital felony - ✔✔Life or death.
✔✔Evidence definition - ✔✔Anything can be used to demonstrate truth of an assertion.
✔✔Magistrate Court - ✔✔Federal Justice court hears misdemeanor offenses.
✔✔Real/Physical Evidence - ✔✔Guns, drug pipe, drugs, knife.
✔✔4th Amendment - ✔✔Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
✔✔Target - ✔✔Less power and privilege.
✔✔3 factors limiting officer discretion - ✔✔Public safety & welfare (officer safety),
Department policy, Mandatory Arrest.
✔✔EAP - ✔✔Employee Assistance Program.
✔✔Punishment for 1st Degree Felony - ✔✔Maximum punishment of 5 to life in prison.
✔✔Punishment for 2nd Degree Felony - ✔✔Maximum punishment of 1 to 15 years in
prison.
✔✔Free Radicals - ✔✔Unstable molecule that attach to the lipids found in cell
membranes.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (People) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, imminent,
unlawful force.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Home) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, prevent or
terminate unlawful entry or attack, habitation.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Arrest) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, affect arrest or
defend, bodily harm.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Property) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, criminal
interference, lawfully in possession.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Negative effects of officer misconduct - ✔✔• Public embarrassment • Compromise
officer's safety • Compromise police effectiveness
✔✔Office of the Inspector General (OIG) - ✔✔Audits, investigates, inspects programs
and operations of DHS. Recommends ways to be as effective, efficient, and economical
as possible
✔✔Testimonial Evidence - ✔✔Statement made under oath
✔✔3 branches of government - ✔✔Legislative, Executive, Judicial
✔✔In-Custody Death - ✔✔Any unintentional death that occurs while a subject is in
police custody
✔✔4 principles of DTH - ✔✔Distance, Awareness, Balance, Self Control
✔✔Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) - ✔✔fight, flight, freeze
✔✔8th Amendment - ✔✔No cruel or unusual punishment
✔✔search warrant - ✔✔A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a
suspect's home or business and take specific items as evidence
✔✔fine motor skills - ✔✔Coordination of small muscle movements. Between hands,
fingers, & eyes
✔✔Actus Reus - ✔✔criminal act
✔✔Protocol when giving vehicle description - ✔✔Color, Year, Make/Model, Body style,
All other identifying marks, License
✔✔Punishment for infraction - ✔✔Fine only
✔✔Sudden Death - ✔✔Unexpected death of individuals who were in stable medical
condition less than 24 hours previously with no evidence of a non-cardiac cause
✔✔Abandoned property search - ✔✔May be searched if it appears to a reasonable
officer that the property is abandoned
,✔✔Miranda v. Arizona - ✔✔Whenever a person is taken into custody, they must be
given warnings of specific rights regarding self-incrimination or any statements made
will be inadmissible
✔✔What is Garrity? - ✔✔To answer truthfully, Protection from self-incrimination,
Disciplinary actions for lying
✔✔Consent search - ✔✔Search conducted with consent that is voluntary and obtained
from a person with the authority to give that consent
✔✔US Secret Service - ✔✔Protect the president and money
✔✔CIT - ✔✔Crisis Intervention Team
✔✔Over modulation - ✔✔Speaking too close to the microphone or yelling into the
microphone
✔✔Ways hazardous material can enter the body - ✔✔Inhale, Ingestion
✔✔Injection/puncture - ✔✔
✔✔Touch - ✔✔Absorb in skin
✔✔Brown v. Illinois (1975) - ✔✔Confessions or statements obtained as a result of an
illegal arrest will not be admissible even though Miranda warnings are given.
✔✔6 key components of field notes - ✔✔Names of suspects/witnesses, Names of
officers or others that assist, Times and Dates, Location, Additional Info, Circumstance
of crime or incident.
✔✔What cases does Juvenile Court hear? - ✔✔Custody of children, Minors that commit
violations of the law under 18 years old.
✔✔Demonstrative evidence - ✔✔Photographs, Diagrams, Maps, Models.
✔✔Cooper Color Code - ✔✔White: Unaware, unprepared; Yellow: Relaxed, alert;
Orange: Alert, specific recognize threat; Red: Fight, engaging threat, ready to fight;
Black: Sensory overload, unable to react.
✔✔When do juvenile cases get sent to District Court? - ✔✔Minors over 16 that commit
Murder or Aggravated Murder.
✔✔Terry Frisk - ✔✔Quick pat down of outer clothes for weapons.
, ✔✔3 levels of conflict resolution - ✔✔Non-Verbal, Verbal, Physical.
✔✔Interrogation - ✔✔Questioning a person suspected of having committed an offense
or who is reluctant to make full disclosure of information that is pertinent to an
investigation.
✔✔Jury trial - ✔✔A trial before a judge and a jury.
✔✔Punishment for a capital felony - ✔✔Life or death.
✔✔Evidence definition - ✔✔Anything can be used to demonstrate truth of an assertion.
✔✔Magistrate Court - ✔✔Federal Justice court hears misdemeanor offenses.
✔✔Real/Physical Evidence - ✔✔Guns, drug pipe, drugs, knife.
✔✔4th Amendment - ✔✔Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
✔✔Target - ✔✔Less power and privilege.
✔✔3 factors limiting officer discretion - ✔✔Public safety & welfare (officer safety),
Department policy, Mandatory Arrest.
✔✔EAP - ✔✔Employee Assistance Program.
✔✔Punishment for 1st Degree Felony - ✔✔Maximum punishment of 5 to life in prison.
✔✔Punishment for 2nd Degree Felony - ✔✔Maximum punishment of 1 to 15 years in
prison.
✔✔Free Radicals - ✔✔Unstable molecule that attach to the lipids found in cell
membranes.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (People) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, imminent,
unlawful force.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Home) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, prevent or
terminate unlawful entry or attack, habitation.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Arrest) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, affect arrest or
defend, bodily harm.
✔✔Reasonable Force: (Property) - ✔✔Reasonably believes necessary, criminal
interference, lawfully in possession.
