DCJS CORE MAIN ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
Father of Modern Policing - ✔✔Sir Robert Peele
✔✔3 elements of criminal justice system - ✔✔Law enforcement officers
Courts
Jail
✔✔Primary responsibility when responding to any event - ✔✔Check for injuries and
render aid
✔✔Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law - ✔✔Spirit: enforcing the law as it was intended
to operate
Letter: enforcing the law exactly as it is written
✔✔Officer discretion - ✔✔Consider agency general orders, totality of circumstances,
severity of crime, will anyone be hurt by my inaction
✔✔Consider before starting a pursuit - ✔✔Seriousness of violation, traffic patterns,
pedestrian traffic, weather / road conditions
✔✔Effects on officer of high speed pursuit - ✔✔Increased heart rate, tunnel vision,
decreased fine motor skills
✔✔Civil negligence - ✔✔Failure of an officer to act as a reasonable officer would in the
same situation resulting in harm to someones person, property, or civil rights
✔✔Carry weapon on or about a person - ✔✔Readily accessible for the use of surprise
Hidden from common observation
✔✔Brandishing a firearm - ✔✔Point, brandish, hold
, AND
Reasonably induce fear in the mind of another
✔✔Discharging firearm in public - ✔✔City, street, town, any place of public gathering
Charges worsen if person harmed or near/on school property
✔✔Sawed off shotgun - ✔✔Barrel length < 18 inches for smooth bore
< 16 inches for rifled bore
✔✔Sawed off rifle - ✔✔Barrel length < 16 inches
Overall length <26 inches
✔✔Use/display firearm in commission of felony - ✔✔Separate charge from initial felony
Adds on prison time
✔✔Possession / Transportation of firearms by convicted felons - ✔✔Convicted felon or
delinquent of most serious felonies (murder, rape, abduction, robbery with firearm)
Class 6 felony
✔✔Purchase/possess/transport firearm by someone adjudicated legally incompetent or
mentally incapacitated - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Possession/transportation of firearms by non-US citizen - ✔✔Always a felony
✔✔Purchase/transport firearm by subject of protective order - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Reckless handling of firearm - ✔✔Endanger life, limb, property of another
Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Allow children access to firearms - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Discharge firearm into occupied dwelling - ✔✔Class 4 felony
Class 6 felony if not done maliciously
✔✔Hunting while under the influence of alcohol or drugs - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Shooting on or near roadway - ✔✔Class 4 misdemeanor
✔✔Handling a crime scene - ✔✔Ensure safety of victims / witnesses
Determine time lapse
Notify supervisor, DPSC
ID victim if possible
Do not touch evidence
Document everything
SURE A+
Father of Modern Policing - ✔✔Sir Robert Peele
✔✔3 elements of criminal justice system - ✔✔Law enforcement officers
Courts
Jail
✔✔Primary responsibility when responding to any event - ✔✔Check for injuries and
render aid
✔✔Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law - ✔✔Spirit: enforcing the law as it was intended
to operate
Letter: enforcing the law exactly as it is written
✔✔Officer discretion - ✔✔Consider agency general orders, totality of circumstances,
severity of crime, will anyone be hurt by my inaction
✔✔Consider before starting a pursuit - ✔✔Seriousness of violation, traffic patterns,
pedestrian traffic, weather / road conditions
✔✔Effects on officer of high speed pursuit - ✔✔Increased heart rate, tunnel vision,
decreased fine motor skills
✔✔Civil negligence - ✔✔Failure of an officer to act as a reasonable officer would in the
same situation resulting in harm to someones person, property, or civil rights
✔✔Carry weapon on or about a person - ✔✔Readily accessible for the use of surprise
Hidden from common observation
✔✔Brandishing a firearm - ✔✔Point, brandish, hold
, AND
Reasonably induce fear in the mind of another
✔✔Discharging firearm in public - ✔✔City, street, town, any place of public gathering
Charges worsen if person harmed or near/on school property
✔✔Sawed off shotgun - ✔✔Barrel length < 18 inches for smooth bore
< 16 inches for rifled bore
✔✔Sawed off rifle - ✔✔Barrel length < 16 inches
Overall length <26 inches
✔✔Use/display firearm in commission of felony - ✔✔Separate charge from initial felony
Adds on prison time
✔✔Possession / Transportation of firearms by convicted felons - ✔✔Convicted felon or
delinquent of most serious felonies (murder, rape, abduction, robbery with firearm)
Class 6 felony
✔✔Purchase/possess/transport firearm by someone adjudicated legally incompetent or
mentally incapacitated - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Possession/transportation of firearms by non-US citizen - ✔✔Always a felony
✔✔Purchase/transport firearm by subject of protective order - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Reckless handling of firearm - ✔✔Endanger life, limb, property of another
Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Allow children access to firearms - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Discharge firearm into occupied dwelling - ✔✔Class 4 felony
Class 6 felony if not done maliciously
✔✔Hunting while under the influence of alcohol or drugs - ✔✔Class 1 misdemeanor
✔✔Shooting on or near roadway - ✔✔Class 4 misdemeanor
✔✔Handling a crime scene - ✔✔Ensure safety of victims / witnesses
Determine time lapse
Notify supervisor, DPSC
ID victim if possible
Do not touch evidence
Document everything
