MPOETC ACT 120 CERTIFICATION EXAM REVIEW Questions With Correct Answers

conspiracy - Answer Situation where two people agree to commit a crime and are caught later? forehead - Answer When applying a tourniquet to someone, where should you write the time on their body at which it was applied? yellow - Answer What color does a police officer work in? (Traffic Light Analogy) 35 mph - Answer What is the normal speed limit for an urban area? use lethal force - Answer What should you NOT do when someone robs a Police Officer? DEA - Answer What federal agency should you notify if you come into contact with a clandestine lab? cruiser ready - Answer What is the status of an AR Rifle when the bolt is closed, the chamber is empty, and the magazine is seated in the magazine well? cruiser ready - Answer What is the status of a Shot Gun that has a filled magazine tube, a forward slide, and an activated chamber safety switch? 1st amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right to free speech, religion, and press? 4th amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right to a person's secured house, paper, and effects? 5th amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right against self-incrimination, due process, compensation for public taking of property, and double-jeopardy? This right established "Miranda Warnings" in the case of Miranda v. Arizona. 6th amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right to speedy trial, to counsel, and to be confronted by witnesses and/or accusers? 8th amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right to bail and protection from cruel and unusual punishment? 14th amendment - Answer What is the constitutional right to life, liberty, property, and equal rights for all? mapp v. ohio - Answer What U.S. Supreme Court case made the disposition of the "Exclusionary Rule?" 4th amendment - Answer What amendment provides guidelines and sets standards for the use of force? commonwealth v. maglioccio - Answer What Pennsylvania State Supreme Court case defines the concept that a person cannot be convicted of ethnic intimidation without being found guilty of a predicate offense? aggravated assault - Answer What 18 Pa.C.S. statute is charged when someone punches a Pennsylvania police officer? simple assault - Answer What 18 Pa.C.S. statute is charged when someone punches their significant other? criminal attempt - Answer In addition to aggravated assault, what other 18 Pa.C.S. statute would be charged against a woman who attempted to stab a man and missed? juvenile petition - Answer What should be filed when a juvenile strikes a teacher? incorrect - Answer CORRECT OR INCORRECT? A motorcycle should pull up to a solid white line, wait 3 seconds, and look both ways before proceeding? flammable - Answer What does a diamond hazard symbol indicate? incorrect - Answer CORRECT OR INCORRECT? A Police Officer should interview a child with the parents included when there is a domestic situation at large? eliminate threat - Answer What should a shot Police Officer or fellow officer do when there is an active shooter at large? robbery - Answer What 18 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against a man who robs a bank, but is then locked between the doors? directly in front of home - Answer When responding to a domestic situation at large, where should a Police Officer NOT park his/her patrol vehicle? 3 feet - Answer How far offset to the left should a patrol vehicle be positioned on a traffic stop? civil matter - Answer Why should a Police Officer advise a father to contact an attorney if a mother fails to permit father to see child during the weekend? no violation committed - Answer What 18 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against an elder man who offered to transport a child someplace? mental hospital - Answer When "302-ing" someone, where should a Police Officer take them first? statute 3111 - Answer What 75 Pa.C.S. statute should be charged against someone who turned right on a steady red light? (Obedience to Traffic Devices) graham v. connor - Answer What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that an Officer's reasonable perspective of a scene will be judged rather than 20/20 hindsight of others? fruit of the poisonous tree - Answer What term applies to any evidence found through illegal conduct that is suppressed, regardless of the relationship between the act and the seizure? nix v. williams - Answer What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled on the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule? us v. leon - Answer What is the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule? involuntary commitment - Answer What type of commitment pertains to spending 24 hours in a mental institute, a thorough psychiatric evaluation, or being taken to a Magisterial judge? order of courts - Answer Minor Court, Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, Pennsylvania State Superior Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. sheriff department - Answer If a Police Officer is serving a P.F.A. and there are firearms present, where must the firearms be taken? take immediately - Answer A Police Officer responds to a domestic disturbance for loud noise. Upon knocking on the door, the Police Officer notices a powdered substance in baggies on the table when the resident answers. If they do not get a warrant, what should the Officer do? yes - Answer Upon entering a house, the wife who lives there grants permission to the police to search her husband's unlocked closet. Will her permission suffice?