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Colorado POST POST REVIEW 1 - correct answer .......... What is sensory distortion? - correct answer An officer may hallucinate that an offender already shot him How does an officer react to the threat of another person? - correct answer Locate, react, control, identify The simplest way for an officer to relieve stress? - correct answer Deep belly breathing When is an officer justified in putting a mentally ill person in jail? - correct answer When there is no room in an institution and he is placed in jail for safety reasons. Only a facility that is suitable and readily available. A mentally ill person amy only be held in a jail for a maximum of 24 hours When there is a robbery in progress, and a suspect is in the area an officer should? - correct answer Proceed as rapidly as possible but use extreme caution. Assume the suspect is still at the scene When an officer takes a tape recorder to the crime scene he must? - correct answer Record any victim, witness and suspect statements related to the crime. Do not cherry pick your witnesses An officer's note taking is minimized at the crime scene by? - correct answer The type of offense, conditions of the case, officer attitude, officer ability and the number of officers assigned to the case When going to the scene of a domestic disdpute, there are four phases, what are they? - correct answer Assess the situation Take immediate corrective action Listen and observe Follow-up