PC 832 ARREST FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
suturing, and serious disfigurement.
✔✔Reasonable Necessity - ✔✔Means that delay in apprehension would create
substantial and unreasonable risk to officers or others possibly resulting in serious
physical injury or death.
✔✔Imminent danger - ✔✔means a significant threat that peace officers reasonably
believe will result in death or serious bodily injury to themselves or to other persons.
✔✔Consideration when deciding to use deadly force - ✔✔May be influence by the
officer's:
* training and experience
* judgment
* mental alertness
* emotional maturity
* existing circumstances
Understanding of the law as it relates to:
- agency policies concerning the use
- amount of force that is objectively reasonable to achieve the law
enforcement mission
✔✔Justifiable homicide by public officer
(Penal Code Section 196) - ✔✔Homicide by a public officer may be justified when...
* ordered by a court to carry out a death sentence.
* acting in the course of duty.
* retaking escaping felons.
* arresting a felon who resists to the point where deadly force is reasonable.
✔✔Unjustifiable homicide by a public officer - ✔✔Homicide by a public officer may NOT
be justified when...
* pursuing nonviolent felons.
* arresting or pursuing a felon who does not present a threat to life.
* arresting or pursuing a misdemeanor who does not pose imminent danger of death or
serious bodily injury to people.
✔✔Response - ✔✔are less predictable to the subject than instinctual reaction.
are correctable.
are flexible (can be adjusted and customized).
can lead to increased self-control.
✔✔Reaction - ✔✔more predictable to the subject.
limited.
, improper.
dangerous to the officer or others.
✔✔Training - ✔✔*Confidence in an officer's abilities.
Officers gain essential confidence in themselves to respond appropriately and apply the
use of force effectively to gain control of subjects and situations.
* Correct responses.
The ability to make split-second decisions may mean the difference between the
difference between life and death.
✔✔Self control - ✔✔* is one of a peace officer's greatest assets in dealing with a person
or situation.
* is maintaining composure to make sound judgments and decisions.
✔✔Physiological reaction to fear - ✔✔When a person experiences fear, the body reacts,
often by an increase in adrenaline, heart rate, and breathing. In addition, some common
body responses to fear may include:
* blood clotting enzymes flow into the system to minimize damage from wounds.
* raised pain levels.
* time distortion. etc.
✔✔Balance stance - ✔✔is an essential component of any subject contact.
* keep the gun side away from the subject
*keep weight evenly distributed over the balls of the feet
* bend the knees slightly -do not lock them
* keep feet approximately shoulder width apart
* keep the body relaxed
* stay alert
✔✔General control - ✔✔is the degree of influence that peace officers must exert over
subjects in order to take them into custody. The subject may still have options for
movement while under the general control of a peace officer.
✔✔Precursory acts - ✔✔are those events that led up to the encounter with the subject,
including how the officer arrived at the scene as well as what observations helped the
officer asses the situation.
✔✔Situations: that may generate reasonable fear - ✔✔The officer may experience
reasonable fear as a result of:
* a sudden or erratic move by a subject
* the sight of a weapon in a subject's possession
* the knowledge that a person is in danger of bodily harm
* a sudden sound produced outside of the officer's field of view
* unresponsive, unexpected response to the officer's action
ANSWERS GRADED A+
suturing, and serious disfigurement.
✔✔Reasonable Necessity - ✔✔Means that delay in apprehension would create
substantial and unreasonable risk to officers or others possibly resulting in serious
physical injury or death.
✔✔Imminent danger - ✔✔means a significant threat that peace officers reasonably
believe will result in death or serious bodily injury to themselves or to other persons.
✔✔Consideration when deciding to use deadly force - ✔✔May be influence by the
officer's:
* training and experience
* judgment
* mental alertness
* emotional maturity
* existing circumstances
Understanding of the law as it relates to:
- agency policies concerning the use
- amount of force that is objectively reasonable to achieve the law
enforcement mission
✔✔Justifiable homicide by public officer
(Penal Code Section 196) - ✔✔Homicide by a public officer may be justified when...
* ordered by a court to carry out a death sentence.
* acting in the course of duty.
* retaking escaping felons.
* arresting a felon who resists to the point where deadly force is reasonable.
✔✔Unjustifiable homicide by a public officer - ✔✔Homicide by a public officer may NOT
be justified when...
* pursuing nonviolent felons.
* arresting or pursuing a felon who does not present a threat to life.
* arresting or pursuing a misdemeanor who does not pose imminent danger of death or
serious bodily injury to people.
✔✔Response - ✔✔are less predictable to the subject than instinctual reaction.
are correctable.
are flexible (can be adjusted and customized).
can lead to increased self-control.
✔✔Reaction - ✔✔more predictable to the subject.
limited.
, improper.
dangerous to the officer or others.
✔✔Training - ✔✔*Confidence in an officer's abilities.
Officers gain essential confidence in themselves to respond appropriately and apply the
use of force effectively to gain control of subjects and situations.
* Correct responses.
The ability to make split-second decisions may mean the difference between the
difference between life and death.
✔✔Self control - ✔✔* is one of a peace officer's greatest assets in dealing with a person
or situation.
* is maintaining composure to make sound judgments and decisions.
✔✔Physiological reaction to fear - ✔✔When a person experiences fear, the body reacts,
often by an increase in adrenaline, heart rate, and breathing. In addition, some common
body responses to fear may include:
* blood clotting enzymes flow into the system to minimize damage from wounds.
* raised pain levels.
* time distortion. etc.
✔✔Balance stance - ✔✔is an essential component of any subject contact.
* keep the gun side away from the subject
*keep weight evenly distributed over the balls of the feet
* bend the knees slightly -do not lock them
* keep feet approximately shoulder width apart
* keep the body relaxed
* stay alert
✔✔General control - ✔✔is the degree of influence that peace officers must exert over
subjects in order to take them into custody. The subject may still have options for
movement while under the general control of a peace officer.
✔✔Precursory acts - ✔✔are those events that led up to the encounter with the subject,
including how the officer arrived at the scene as well as what observations helped the
officer asses the situation.
✔✔Situations: that may generate reasonable fear - ✔✔The officer may experience
reasonable fear as a result of:
* a sudden or erratic move by a subject
* the sight of a weapon in a subject's possession
* the knowledge that a person is in danger of bodily harm
* a sudden sound produced outside of the officer's field of view
* unresponsive, unexpected response to the officer's action
