FSC100 PRACTICE SOLUTION TEST 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● What does police mean
Answer: Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
●● Why do police forces exist in the first place?
Answer: As a preventative role and for safety
●● Metropolitan police
Answer: Often considered the template for the North American police
that followed the European trend
●● Sir Robert Peel
Answer: a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for
the home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought
out the Metropolitan Police act.
●● Why did we have police forces?
Answer: The public didnt want to do it themselves
,●● Where was the first police force in North America
Answer: Toronto in the 19th century
●● How did Policing begin in North America
Answer: As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid
"policeman" position with formal training
●● First signs of Canadian legal tradition
Answer: When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system
modeled after France.
●● Detective
Answer: Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the
crime and why. They established themselves within police agencies
working less individually and more cooperatively to close cases
●● Constables
Answer: Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as
needed. Not until a year later that five were hired and paid.
●● North West Mounted Police
Answer: The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to
police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.
, ●● What are municipalities responsible for?
Answer: majority of the policing services.
●● OPP
Answer: One of the largest services in North America, provide rural
policing and support for all police agencies as required
●● Policing Standards Manual
Answer: contains guidelines to help police services understand the PSA
●● Police Services Act
Answer: regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police
services regulation
●● Atavism
Answer: criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological
deviance
●● Positivism
Answer: crime was the product of social causes
●● Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now?
Answer: Because it seems that the criminal mind is a blend of thw two
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● What does police mean
Answer: Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
●● Why do police forces exist in the first place?
Answer: As a preventative role and for safety
●● Metropolitan police
Answer: Often considered the template for the North American police
that followed the European trend
●● Sir Robert Peel
Answer: a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary for
the home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought
out the Metropolitan Police act.
●● Why did we have police forces?
Answer: The public didnt want to do it themselves
,●● Where was the first police force in North America
Answer: Toronto in the 19th century
●● How did Policing begin in North America
Answer: As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid
"policeman" position with formal training
●● First signs of Canadian legal tradition
Answer: When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system
modeled after France.
●● Detective
Answer: Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed the
crime and why. They established themselves within police agencies
working less individually and more cooperatively to close cases
●● Constables
Answer: Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as
needed. Not until a year later that five were hired and paid.
●● North West Mounted Police
Answer: The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to
police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.
, ●● What are municipalities responsible for?
Answer: majority of the policing services.
●● OPP
Answer: One of the largest services in North America, provide rural
policing and support for all police agencies as required
●● Policing Standards Manual
Answer: contains guidelines to help police services understand the PSA
●● Police Services Act
Answer: regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police
services regulation
●● Atavism
Answer: criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological
deviance
●● Positivism
Answer: crime was the product of social causes
●● Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now?
Answer: Because it seems that the criminal mind is a blend of thw two
