OPOTA PRACTICE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Continuum of Compromise - ✔✔Being exposed on a regular basis to "special
authority " & at the same time being exposed to the element of society that operates
without values
✔✔Ethical Dilemmas - ✔✔A situation in which the officer didn't know the right course of
action was or the to difficult to do, or the wrong course
✔✔Common areas in which unethical acts occur - ✔✔Corrupt Actions
Falsifying reports
Sexual harassment
Alcohol misuse
Drugs
Gratuities
✔✔Steps in the decision making model - ✔✔Step 1: define the problem
Step 2: identify alternative solutions
Step 3: evaluate the identified alternatives
Step 4: make the decision
Step 5: implement
Step 6: evaluate
✔✔Plus - ✔✔Policies
Legal
Universal
Self
✔✔Uses of Field Notes - ✔✔Preservation of knowledge
Foundation of written report
Aids in investigation
Evidence in court
Documentation of the officer's efforts
✔✔Types of info in field notes - ✔✔Complete info on victim, witnesses & suspects
Date & time
Location
Type of place
Details of offense or incident
Disposition of evidence, property & subjects
Report #
✔✔Guidelines when taking notes - ✔✔Day & time of shift
Separate incidents separate pages
, Let victim & witnesses talk thru
Ask clarifying questions
Be complete
✔✔Essential questions answered in report - ✔✔Who what when where why how
✔✔Requirements of a well written report - ✔✔Complete
Factual
Accurate
Objective
✔✔Crime - ✔✔Any act that the law makes punishable
✔✔Culpable mental states - ✔✔Purposely
Knowingly
Recklessly
Negligently
✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔A government's general power to exercise authority over all
persons & things within its territory
✔✔Statutory law - ✔✔The body of law derieved from statuirather than from constitutions
or judicial decisions
✔✔Case law - ✔✔Laws based off of court cases
✔✔Force - ✔✔Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by an means
✔✔Deadly force - ✔✔Any force that carries substantial risk that will proximately result in
death
✔✔Coercion - ✔✔W/ purpose to coerce another into taking or refraining from action
concerning which he has legal freedom of choice
2905.12
✔✔Extortion - ✔✔W/ a purpose to obrain value or valuable benefit, to induce another to
do any unlawful act
2905.11
✔✔Criminal Child Enticement - ✔✔Knowingly by any means w/put privilege to do so
solicit, coax, entice, or lure any child under 14 into any vehicle or vessel
✔✔Unlawful restraint - ✔✔Knowingly restrain another of his liberty w/out privilege to do
so
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Continuum of Compromise - ✔✔Being exposed on a regular basis to "special
authority " & at the same time being exposed to the element of society that operates
without values
✔✔Ethical Dilemmas - ✔✔A situation in which the officer didn't know the right course of
action was or the to difficult to do, or the wrong course
✔✔Common areas in which unethical acts occur - ✔✔Corrupt Actions
Falsifying reports
Sexual harassment
Alcohol misuse
Drugs
Gratuities
✔✔Steps in the decision making model - ✔✔Step 1: define the problem
Step 2: identify alternative solutions
Step 3: evaluate the identified alternatives
Step 4: make the decision
Step 5: implement
Step 6: evaluate
✔✔Plus - ✔✔Policies
Legal
Universal
Self
✔✔Uses of Field Notes - ✔✔Preservation of knowledge
Foundation of written report
Aids in investigation
Evidence in court
Documentation of the officer's efforts
✔✔Types of info in field notes - ✔✔Complete info on victim, witnesses & suspects
Date & time
Location
Type of place
Details of offense or incident
Disposition of evidence, property & subjects
Report #
✔✔Guidelines when taking notes - ✔✔Day & time of shift
Separate incidents separate pages
, Let victim & witnesses talk thru
Ask clarifying questions
Be complete
✔✔Essential questions answered in report - ✔✔Who what when where why how
✔✔Requirements of a well written report - ✔✔Complete
Factual
Accurate
Objective
✔✔Crime - ✔✔Any act that the law makes punishable
✔✔Culpable mental states - ✔✔Purposely
Knowingly
Recklessly
Negligently
✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔A government's general power to exercise authority over all
persons & things within its territory
✔✔Statutory law - ✔✔The body of law derieved from statuirather than from constitutions
or judicial decisions
✔✔Case law - ✔✔Laws based off of court cases
✔✔Force - ✔✔Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by an means
✔✔Deadly force - ✔✔Any force that carries substantial risk that will proximately result in
death
✔✔Coercion - ✔✔W/ purpose to coerce another into taking or refraining from action
concerning which he has legal freedom of choice
2905.12
✔✔Extortion - ✔✔W/ a purpose to obrain value or valuable benefit, to induce another to
do any unlawful act
2905.11
✔✔Criminal Child Enticement - ✔✔Knowingly by any means w/put privilege to do so
solicit, coax, entice, or lure any child under 14 into any vehicle or vessel
✔✔Unlawful restraint - ✔✔Knowingly restrain another of his liberty w/out privilege to do
so
