BCOT Test 2 Questions and Correct
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Three levels of law enforcement - Answer: local, state, federal
Components within local law enforcement? - Answer: Police and sheriff
What do the police enforce? - Answer: Local city ordinances
Where can local police respond to in terms of emergency situations? - Answer: anywhere within city
limits
Who operates jails? - Answer: both police and the sheriffs department
What is a crime prevention program that is run by local law enforcement? - Answer: neighborhood
watch
Who serves arrest warrants, summons, and subpoenas? - Answer: Sheriff department
What type of crime prevention programs does the Sheriff's Office run? - Answer: DARE and GANGS
What is GANGS? - Answer: Gang resistant education and training
Components of state law enforcement - Answer: Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Bureau
of Investigation, and Georgia State Patrol
What does the Department of Natural Resources do? - Answer: provide boater and hunter safety,
and enforce wildlife protection law
What does the GBI do? - Answer: criminal investigations and runs the state crime lab
Who operates the state computerized criminal information database? - Answer: GBI
, Components of Federal law enforcement - Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Who/what does the FBI protect the US from? - Answer: terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence groups,
espionage, cyber attacks, and high tech crimes
What does the FBI protect? - Answer: Civil rights
The FBI combats - Answer: major white-collar crimes, significant violent crimes, public corruption,
and national criminal organizations and enterprises
What are the three types of court systems? - Answer: Municipal, Superior, and Federal
What does the municipal court handle? - Answer: traffic violations, small claims, marriage
What is the highest dollar amount the municipal court is allowed to handle when dealing with small
claims? - Answer: $15,000 or less
What is the dollar amount that the Superior courts can handle when dealing with civil suits? -
Answer: $15,000
What does the superior court handle? - Answer: divorce, adoption, search warrants, and special
juvenile courts
Who convicts most felonies? - Answer: Superior courts
7 deadly sins - Answer: if a juvenile is found guilty of any of these they will be handled in the
superior court
What are the 7 deadly sins - Answer: murder, rape, aggravated child molestation, voluntary
manslaughter, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, armed robbery
What is the federal government considered? - Answer: guardians of the constitution
Detailed Answers
Three levels of law enforcement - Answer: local, state, federal
Components within local law enforcement? - Answer: Police and sheriff
What do the police enforce? - Answer: Local city ordinances
Where can local police respond to in terms of emergency situations? - Answer: anywhere within city
limits
Who operates jails? - Answer: both police and the sheriffs department
What is a crime prevention program that is run by local law enforcement? - Answer: neighborhood
watch
Who serves arrest warrants, summons, and subpoenas? - Answer: Sheriff department
What type of crime prevention programs does the Sheriff's Office run? - Answer: DARE and GANGS
What is GANGS? - Answer: Gang resistant education and training
Components of state law enforcement - Answer: Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Bureau
of Investigation, and Georgia State Patrol
What does the Department of Natural Resources do? - Answer: provide boater and hunter safety,
and enforce wildlife protection law
What does the GBI do? - Answer: criminal investigations and runs the state crime lab
Who operates the state computerized criminal information database? - Answer: GBI
, Components of Federal law enforcement - Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Who/what does the FBI protect the US from? - Answer: terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence groups,
espionage, cyber attacks, and high tech crimes
What does the FBI protect? - Answer: Civil rights
The FBI combats - Answer: major white-collar crimes, significant violent crimes, public corruption,
and national criminal organizations and enterprises
What are the three types of court systems? - Answer: Municipal, Superior, and Federal
What does the municipal court handle? - Answer: traffic violations, small claims, marriage
What is the highest dollar amount the municipal court is allowed to handle when dealing with small
claims? - Answer: $15,000 or less
What is the dollar amount that the Superior courts can handle when dealing with civil suits? -
Answer: $15,000
What does the superior court handle? - Answer: divorce, adoption, search warrants, and special
juvenile courts
Who convicts most felonies? - Answer: Superior courts
7 deadly sins - Answer: if a juvenile is found guilty of any of these they will be handled in the
superior court
What are the 7 deadly sins - Answer: murder, rape, aggravated child molestation, voluntary
manslaughter, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, armed robbery
What is the federal government considered? - Answer: guardians of the constitution
