Police Sergeant Practice Exam Updated Actual
Question and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• These police tactics involve the use of physical force, threat of force, and mental or
psychological abuse. -✓✓ Third degree tactics.
• This type of evidence would clear a suspect from blame. -✓✓ Exculpatory evidence.
• A the scene of a homicide, what is the medical examiner or coroner normally
responsible for? -✓✓ Securing the body of the deceased, as well as all associated
clothing and personal property.
• You are required to administer a sobriety test to a motorist to determine if the motorist
is intoxicated. During the test, the motorist experiences difficulty maintaining equilibrium.
This is known as -✓✓ the Romberg sign.
• In order to allow for accurate and complete reconstruction of an accident scene, it is
important for an officer to measure skid marks to -✓✓ the nearest inch.
• Foot patrol by police officers is most effective in combating -✓✓ robberies and street
muggings.
• An object, measure, or model with which evidence is compared to determine whether
both came from the same source. -✓✓ Standard of comparison.
• The chemical development of latent fingerprints using super glue is scientifically
known as -✓✓ cyanocralyde.
• You are a sergeant who has arrived at the scene of what your patrol officers originally
thought was a robbery-in-progress call. You see three patrol cars on the scene. The
lead officer tells you that the suspects fled over an hour ago. What should you have the
other officers do? -✓✓ Report back to service.
• The purpose of criminal investigation is to identify the perpetrator of a particular crime
by gathering information from witnesses and suspects. Which of the following is of least
concern to the police? -✓✓ Why.
• The Constitution and the rights expressed in it are directed at protecting citizens
against the improper actions of which of the following? -✓✓ The Government.
• Which of the following is the highest court in our nation? -✓✓ The Supreme Court.
, • The United States has determined that free speech is protected under the First
Amendment of the Constitution. Which of the following situations would not be protected
under the First Amendment? -✓✓ Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater where there is no
fire.
• Under the Constitution, citizens are protected from double jeopardy or being tried twice
for the same crime. The Supreme Court has held that none of the following situations
amounts to double jeopardy EXCEPT -✓✓ when a defendant is tried twice for the same
act, once under state statutes and once under federal statutes.
• A dead body will float in warm water after how many days of submersion? -✓✓ 8 to 10
days.
• The understanding of human behavior is paramount to good supervisory practices. A
variety of barriers may get in the way of the ability of personnel to perform at their peak.
When the barrier is an inadequate salary, this would be called a -✓✓ situational barrier.
• According to experts in the field of law enforcement, when searching for a lost child,
which of these areas should be searched first? -✓✓ The immediate area from where the
child disappeared.
• What is the result of psychological problems that go unaddressed and untreated? -✓✓
The program grow in severity and become worse.
• Under most standard regulations for dealing with complaints, at what point in the
process does a complaint officially become a grievance? -✓✓ When the supervisor fails
to resolve the complaint and refers it to the next level of management.
• Death by attempting to sexually gratify oneself with the use of ropes and pulleys and
contraption to choke oneself is called -✓✓ auto-erotic asphyxiation.
• It is agreed among present-day industrial psychologists that there are several steps in
the teaching process. These include the "introduction step," the "presentation step," the
"application step," and the "test step." problem solving or role playing should be used
during which of these steps? -✓✓ The application step.
• Law enforcement officers acting under the color of law who violate a person's Fourth
Amendment rights are subject to a suit for damages and other remedies in Federal
Courts under this federal statute. -✓✓ 42 USC 1983
• The portion of a residence that is not open to the public and is reserved for private
owner or family use. -✓✓ Curtilage.
• A conference that consists of persons with widely differing ranks is most accurately
referred to as -✓✓ a vertical conference.
Question and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• These police tactics involve the use of physical force, threat of force, and mental or
psychological abuse. -✓✓ Third degree tactics.
• This type of evidence would clear a suspect from blame. -✓✓ Exculpatory evidence.
• A the scene of a homicide, what is the medical examiner or coroner normally
responsible for? -✓✓ Securing the body of the deceased, as well as all associated
clothing and personal property.
• You are required to administer a sobriety test to a motorist to determine if the motorist
is intoxicated. During the test, the motorist experiences difficulty maintaining equilibrium.
This is known as -✓✓ the Romberg sign.
• In order to allow for accurate and complete reconstruction of an accident scene, it is
important for an officer to measure skid marks to -✓✓ the nearest inch.
• Foot patrol by police officers is most effective in combating -✓✓ robberies and street
muggings.
• An object, measure, or model with which evidence is compared to determine whether
both came from the same source. -✓✓ Standard of comparison.
• The chemical development of latent fingerprints using super glue is scientifically
known as -✓✓ cyanocralyde.
• You are a sergeant who has arrived at the scene of what your patrol officers originally
thought was a robbery-in-progress call. You see three patrol cars on the scene. The
lead officer tells you that the suspects fled over an hour ago. What should you have the
other officers do? -✓✓ Report back to service.
• The purpose of criminal investigation is to identify the perpetrator of a particular crime
by gathering information from witnesses and suspects. Which of the following is of least
concern to the police? -✓✓ Why.
• The Constitution and the rights expressed in it are directed at protecting citizens
against the improper actions of which of the following? -✓✓ The Government.
• Which of the following is the highest court in our nation? -✓✓ The Supreme Court.
, • The United States has determined that free speech is protected under the First
Amendment of the Constitution. Which of the following situations would not be protected
under the First Amendment? -✓✓ Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater where there is no
fire.
• Under the Constitution, citizens are protected from double jeopardy or being tried twice
for the same crime. The Supreme Court has held that none of the following situations
amounts to double jeopardy EXCEPT -✓✓ when a defendant is tried twice for the same
act, once under state statutes and once under federal statutes.
• A dead body will float in warm water after how many days of submersion? -✓✓ 8 to 10
days.
• The understanding of human behavior is paramount to good supervisory practices. A
variety of barriers may get in the way of the ability of personnel to perform at their peak.
When the barrier is an inadequate salary, this would be called a -✓✓ situational barrier.
• According to experts in the field of law enforcement, when searching for a lost child,
which of these areas should be searched first? -✓✓ The immediate area from where the
child disappeared.
• What is the result of psychological problems that go unaddressed and untreated? -✓✓
The program grow in severity and become worse.
• Under most standard regulations for dealing with complaints, at what point in the
process does a complaint officially become a grievance? -✓✓ When the supervisor fails
to resolve the complaint and refers it to the next level of management.
• Death by attempting to sexually gratify oneself with the use of ropes and pulleys and
contraption to choke oneself is called -✓✓ auto-erotic asphyxiation.
• It is agreed among present-day industrial psychologists that there are several steps in
the teaching process. These include the "introduction step," the "presentation step," the
"application step," and the "test step." problem solving or role playing should be used
during which of these steps? -✓✓ The application step.
• Law enforcement officers acting under the color of law who violate a person's Fourth
Amendment rights are subject to a suit for damages and other remedies in Federal
Courts under this federal statute. -✓✓ 42 USC 1983
• The portion of a residence that is not open to the public and is reserved for private
owner or family use. -✓✓ Curtilage.
• A conference that consists of persons with widely differing ranks is most accurately
referred to as -✓✓ a vertical conference.
