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Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
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List the Officer's Main Goals - Answer✔Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
Considerations When Exercising Discretion - Answer✔Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
Reason for Law Enforcement Training - Answer✔To Protect Life and Property of yourself and
the public.
What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question? - Answer✔A test question must
respond directly to a SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question.
Factors Necessary for the commission of a crime? - Answer✔Desire
Victim
Opportunity
Core Concepts of Community Policing - Answer✔-Partnership between Police & Community
-Crime prevention
-Organizational Change in Agency
-A problem solving approach to the police role that is proactive
Considerations for off-duty Situations - Answer✔Behavior
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Situational Awareness
Purpose of the Bill of Rights - Answer✔Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
Major Components of the Criminal Justice System - Answer✔Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
Goals of Sentencing - Answer✔Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy - Answer✔Lawful - Defined by laws and
standards
* Criminal Law
* Agency Rules
* Constitutional Law
Police Legitimacy
* How the public views police as authorized to exercise power.
When can citizens film the police? - Answer✔- When at least one party consents
- When officers are carrying out duties in public, as long as they don't interfere.
Define the connection between "in group" and "out group" police legitimacy. -
Answer✔Individual's interpretation of encounters with police in terms of their group's societal
position rather than the circumstances of the police contact.
Types of Racism - Answer✔-Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Components of Bias - Answer✔- Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling - Answer✔Bias-Based
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* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
List the Two Modes of Thinking - Answer✔- Attitude
- More Deliberate
Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - Answer✔- Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice - Answer✔- Person based approach
- Community based model
Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice - Answer✔Every Encounter is a deposit or
withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice - Answer✔- Giving others a voice
- Neutrality in decision making
- Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness
Ethical Responsibilities - Answer✔- Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
- Your Agency
- Your Family
- Yourself
External Influences on Behavior - Answer✔- Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
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- Department Regulations
- Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty
Internal Influences on Behavior - Answer✔- Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
- Greed
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations
Continuum of Compromise - Answer✔- Process
- Victimization
- Acts of omission
- Acts of commission / Action
- Acts of Commission / Criminal
List the PLUS model - Answer✔Policies - are they consistent with agency?
Legal - Is it lawful?
Universal - are the policies universal?
Self - Does it align with my beliefs?
Uses of Field Notes - Answer✔- Preserve Knowledge
- Foundation of a formal report
- Aids in further investigation
- Evidence in court
- Documents officer's efforts
Types of info in field notes - Answer✔- Info on victim, witness and suspect
- Date/ Time
- Location
- Details of incident
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Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass.
List the Officer's Main Goals - Answer✔Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
Considerations When Exercising Discretion - Answer✔Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
Reason for Law Enforcement Training - Answer✔To Protect Life and Property of yourself and
the public.
What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question? - Answer✔A test question must
respond directly to a SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question.
Factors Necessary for the commission of a crime? - Answer✔Desire
Victim
Opportunity
Core Concepts of Community Policing - Answer✔-Partnership between Police & Community
-Crime prevention
-Organizational Change in Agency
-A problem solving approach to the police role that is proactive
Considerations for off-duty Situations - Answer✔Behavior
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Situational Awareness
Purpose of the Bill of Rights - Answer✔Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
Major Components of the Criminal Justice System - Answer✔Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
Goals of Sentencing - Answer✔Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy - Answer✔Lawful - Defined by laws and
standards
* Criminal Law
* Agency Rules
* Constitutional Law
Police Legitimacy
* How the public views police as authorized to exercise power.
When can citizens film the police? - Answer✔- When at least one party consents
- When officers are carrying out duties in public, as long as they don't interfere.
Define the connection between "in group" and "out group" police legitimacy. -
Answer✔Individual's interpretation of encounters with police in terms of their group's societal
position rather than the circumstances of the police contact.
Types of Racism - Answer✔-Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Components of Bias - Answer✔- Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling - Answer✔Bias-Based
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* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
List the Two Modes of Thinking - Answer✔- Attitude
- More Deliberate
Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - Answer✔- Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice - Answer✔- Person based approach
- Community based model
Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice - Answer✔Every Encounter is a deposit or
withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice - Answer✔- Giving others a voice
- Neutrality in decision making
- Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness
Ethical Responsibilities - Answer✔- Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
- Your Agency
- Your Family
- Yourself
External Influences on Behavior - Answer✔- Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
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- Department Regulations
- Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty
Internal Influences on Behavior - Answer✔- Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
- Greed
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations
Continuum of Compromise - Answer✔- Process
- Victimization
- Acts of omission
- Acts of commission / Action
- Acts of Commission / Criminal
List the PLUS model - Answer✔Policies - are they consistent with agency?
Legal - Is it lawful?
Universal - are the policies universal?
Self - Does it align with my beliefs?
Uses of Field Notes - Answer✔- Preserve Knowledge
- Foundation of a formal report
- Aids in further investigation
- Evidence in court
- Documents officer's efforts
Types of info in field notes - Answer✔- Info on victim, witness and suspect
- Date/ Time
- Location
- Details of incident
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