PC 832 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔"The Golden Rule" = Dignity - ✔✔"Do unto others as you would have others do unto
you"
The Golden rule establishes an essential spirit of ethical conduct.
The key to The Golden Rule frames your considered action with a responsibility for the
well-being of others.
✔✔Ethical Standards - ✔✔The criteria set for professional conduct. Statements of the
specific objectives for which peace officers should strive are found in the Code of
Conduct.
✔✔Career Survival - ✔✔Despite the inherent dangers of the job, many officers who end
their careers prematurely do so as result of making poor ethical decisions. (e.g., *lying,
sex related offense.)
✔✔Community Expectations - ✔✔The community expects that police officers will serve
the public interest and conduct themselves in an ethical manner. (keep the community
safe and secure, demonstrate professional behavior, solve problems.)
✔✔Agency Expectations - ✔✔the police officer's agency expects: conformance with the
law.
Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace
Officers.
✔✔Officer's Peer Expectation - ✔✔Within the employing agency, an officer's peer
expect:
technical competence,support, integrity,
dependability, honesty, and friendship.
✔✔Expectation of Peace Officers - ✔✔To effectively carry out their assigned duties and
fulfill community expectations, peace officers have expectations, including:
appropriate training, adequate resources, agency support, fair and ethical treatment,
respect and cooperation of the public.
✔✔Law Enforcement Code of Ethics - ✔✔The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics was
adopted in 1956 by the National Conference of Police association of Chiefs of Police.
✔✔Adherence - ✔✔any code is just words until translated into action. Officers give the
Law Enforcement Code of Ethics life and meaning by following it in their everyday
conduct. They also adhere to it as matter of personal integrity.
,✔✔Key Elements - ✔✔POST requires that all peace officers abide by the Law
Enforcement Code of Ethics. Officers should become thoroughly familiar with the code
and understand what they promise to uphold.
✔✔Code of Conduct - ✔✔California has supplemented the law Enforcement Code of
ethics with a Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace Officers. The
Code of Conduct is comprised of canons and ethical standards. It was developed in
1979.
✔✔Canons - ✔✔General statements of the standards of professional conduct expected
of peace officers.
✔✔Intervention - ✔✔is the act of attempting to prevent or attempting to stop the
inappropriate or unlawful behavior of another.
✔✔Types of Interventions: Advance, Immediate, Delayed - ✔✔Advance: means taking
action before an inappropriate action is committed.(showing up at the scene)
Immediate: Verbally or physically (stepping in/ or restraining)
Delayed: Discussion/ Referral/ Reporting.
✔✔Ethical decision making and leadership - ✔✔Peace officers who practice the
competencies of ethical leadership with the requisite skills of problem-solving, will be
better equipped to arrive at appropriate solutions in decision making.
✔✔Stereotype - ✔✔is a preconceived or over-simplified generalization involving
negative or positive beliefs about another group.
✔✔Prejudice - ✔✔is a prejudgment or point of view about a person or group of
individuals that is usually formed before the facts are known.
✔✔Benefits of recognizing and respecting diversity - ✔✔Understanding cultural
influences of individuals can help peace officers recognize and influence patterns of
behavior and build more effective relationships within the community and within law
enforcement itself.
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔is a written document that embodies the basic laws of nation or
state. "The Rule of Law!"
✔✔Frame work of government
* three branches of government - ✔✔The branches of government include:
* executive branch
* legislative branch
* judicial branch
, ✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
✔✔Law enforcement and basic rights
Six amendments have direct impact on peace officers' actions and conduct. - ✔✔First
amendment: Basic Rights and Freedom
* speech, religion, * press, etc.
Fourth amendment: Freedom from unreasonable search seizures.
Fifth amendment: Double Jeopardy, freedom from self- incrimination.
Six amendment: A speedy trial, confront their accuser, have legal counsel.
Eighth amendment: Freedom from excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments.
Fourteenth amendment: Due process, right to equal protection of the laws.
✔✔Criminal Justice System - ✔✔is made up of three components:
1. Law Enforcement
2. Judicial
3. Correction
- each component must function together with the other as a "total system."
✔✔There are seven primary goals in the criminal justice system. - ✔✔1. Guarantee Due
Process
2. Prevent Crime
3. Protect Life and Property (most important goal)
4. Uphold and enforce the Law
5. dispense Equal Justice
6. Apprehend Offenders
7. assure Victim's Right
✔✔Agencies with law enforcement responsibilities in California. (Federal, State, and
Local) - ✔✔Federal: FBI, Secret Service, Drug Enforcement Administration.
State: CA Highway Patrol, Department of Fish & Game, and DMV.
Local: Sheriff's Offices, Airport Police, and School District Police.
✔✔California Court System is based upon the
federal system. - ✔✔It is comprised of one State Supreme Court,
lower trial courts (receives evidence and consider cases involving criminal activity or
civil disputes)
Higher appellate court (hear appeals from lower courts)
✔✔Positions and Responsibilities in the criminal justice system. ( Judges, Prosecuting
Attorneys, and Defense Attorneys) - ✔✔1. Judges: Administering justice in a fair and
impartial manner by applying the facts of the law.
2. Prosecuting Attorneys: Prosecuting individuals accused of criminal activities,
Protecting public rights and privileges.
3. Defense Attorneys: Defending the accused, Defending the rights and privileges of
citizens.
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔"The Golden Rule" = Dignity - ✔✔"Do unto others as you would have others do unto
you"
The Golden rule establishes an essential spirit of ethical conduct.
The key to The Golden Rule frames your considered action with a responsibility for the
well-being of others.
✔✔Ethical Standards - ✔✔The criteria set for professional conduct. Statements of the
specific objectives for which peace officers should strive are found in the Code of
Conduct.
✔✔Career Survival - ✔✔Despite the inherent dangers of the job, many officers who end
their careers prematurely do so as result of making poor ethical decisions. (e.g., *lying,
sex related offense.)
✔✔Community Expectations - ✔✔The community expects that police officers will serve
the public interest and conduct themselves in an ethical manner. (keep the community
safe and secure, demonstrate professional behavior, solve problems.)
✔✔Agency Expectations - ✔✔the police officer's agency expects: conformance with the
law.
Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace
Officers.
✔✔Officer's Peer Expectation - ✔✔Within the employing agency, an officer's peer
expect:
technical competence,support, integrity,
dependability, honesty, and friendship.
✔✔Expectation of Peace Officers - ✔✔To effectively carry out their assigned duties and
fulfill community expectations, peace officers have expectations, including:
appropriate training, adequate resources, agency support, fair and ethical treatment,
respect and cooperation of the public.
✔✔Law Enforcement Code of Ethics - ✔✔The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics was
adopted in 1956 by the National Conference of Police association of Chiefs of Police.
✔✔Adherence - ✔✔any code is just words until translated into action. Officers give the
Law Enforcement Code of Ethics life and meaning by following it in their everyday
conduct. They also adhere to it as matter of personal integrity.
,✔✔Key Elements - ✔✔POST requires that all peace officers abide by the Law
Enforcement Code of Ethics. Officers should become thoroughly familiar with the code
and understand what they promise to uphold.
✔✔Code of Conduct - ✔✔California has supplemented the law Enforcement Code of
ethics with a Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace Officers. The
Code of Conduct is comprised of canons and ethical standards. It was developed in
1979.
✔✔Canons - ✔✔General statements of the standards of professional conduct expected
of peace officers.
✔✔Intervention - ✔✔is the act of attempting to prevent or attempting to stop the
inappropriate or unlawful behavior of another.
✔✔Types of Interventions: Advance, Immediate, Delayed - ✔✔Advance: means taking
action before an inappropriate action is committed.(showing up at the scene)
Immediate: Verbally or physically (stepping in/ or restraining)
Delayed: Discussion/ Referral/ Reporting.
✔✔Ethical decision making and leadership - ✔✔Peace officers who practice the
competencies of ethical leadership with the requisite skills of problem-solving, will be
better equipped to arrive at appropriate solutions in decision making.
✔✔Stereotype - ✔✔is a preconceived or over-simplified generalization involving
negative or positive beliefs about another group.
✔✔Prejudice - ✔✔is a prejudgment or point of view about a person or group of
individuals that is usually formed before the facts are known.
✔✔Benefits of recognizing and respecting diversity - ✔✔Understanding cultural
influences of individuals can help peace officers recognize and influence patterns of
behavior and build more effective relationships within the community and within law
enforcement itself.
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔is a written document that embodies the basic laws of nation or
state. "The Rule of Law!"
✔✔Frame work of government
* three branches of government - ✔✔The branches of government include:
* executive branch
* legislative branch
* judicial branch
, ✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
✔✔Law enforcement and basic rights
Six amendments have direct impact on peace officers' actions and conduct. - ✔✔First
amendment: Basic Rights and Freedom
* speech, religion, * press, etc.
Fourth amendment: Freedom from unreasonable search seizures.
Fifth amendment: Double Jeopardy, freedom from self- incrimination.
Six amendment: A speedy trial, confront their accuser, have legal counsel.
Eighth amendment: Freedom from excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments.
Fourteenth amendment: Due process, right to equal protection of the laws.
✔✔Criminal Justice System - ✔✔is made up of three components:
1. Law Enforcement
2. Judicial
3. Correction
- each component must function together with the other as a "total system."
✔✔There are seven primary goals in the criminal justice system. - ✔✔1. Guarantee Due
Process
2. Prevent Crime
3. Protect Life and Property (most important goal)
4. Uphold and enforce the Law
5. dispense Equal Justice
6. Apprehend Offenders
7. assure Victim's Right
✔✔Agencies with law enforcement responsibilities in California. (Federal, State, and
Local) - ✔✔Federal: FBI, Secret Service, Drug Enforcement Administration.
State: CA Highway Patrol, Department of Fish & Game, and DMV.
Local: Sheriff's Offices, Airport Police, and School District Police.
✔✔California Court System is based upon the
federal system. - ✔✔It is comprised of one State Supreme Court,
lower trial courts (receives evidence and consider cases involving criminal activity or
civil disputes)
Higher appellate court (hear appeals from lower courts)
✔✔Positions and Responsibilities in the criminal justice system. ( Judges, Prosecuting
Attorneys, and Defense Attorneys) - ✔✔1. Judges: Administering justice in a fair and
impartial manner by applying the facts of the law.
2. Prosecuting Attorneys: Prosecuting individuals accused of criminal activities,
Protecting public rights and privileges.
3. Defense Attorneys: Defending the accused, Defending the rights and privileges of
citizens.
