FSC100 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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What is a police force? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A constituted
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body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect
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property and limit civil disorder
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What does police mean - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Describe the
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body enforcing the law and maintaining order
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Why do police forces exist in the first place? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔As a preventative role and for safety
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Metropolitan police - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Often considered |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



the template for the North American police that followed the
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Sir Robert Peel - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a member of
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parliament, and became the post of secretary for the home
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department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he brought out
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the Metropolitan Police act.
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,Why did we have police forces? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
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public didnt want to do it themselves
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Where was the first police force in North America - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Toronto in the 19th century |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




How did Policing begin in North America - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid
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"policeman" position with formal training
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First signs of Canadian legal tradition - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system modeled
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after France.
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Detective - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Specialists who sole job was
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to determine who committed the crime and why. They established
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themselves within police agencies working less individually and
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more cooperatively to close cases
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Constables - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Appointed to lead a handful
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of volunteers. Simply hired as needed. Not until a year later that
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five were hired and paid.
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, North West Mounted Police - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
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forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to police the
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frontier territories of the Canadian west.
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What are municipalities responsible for? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔majority of the policing services. |\ |\ |\ |\




OPP - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔One of the largest services in
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North America, provide rural policing and support for all police
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agencies as required |\ |\




Policing Standards Manual - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔contains
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guidelines to help police services understand the PSA
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Police Services Act - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔regulations such as
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adequacy and effectiveness of police services regulation
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Atavism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔criminals were born to commit
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crimes due to biological deviance
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Positivism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔crime was the product of
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social causes
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