TCOLE BASIC JAILER COURSE EXAM
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - ANS is a state regulatory agency for local
law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state if Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - ANS is the regulatory agency for all county jails
and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - ANS is the statutory authority for the Commission to establish rules
that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - ANS the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - ANS was created in 1992 to administer and enforce provisions
relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of state officers and employees
Jail Climate - ANS the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail facility; inmate
playing games with staff
Stress - ANS a body condition that may occur when a person faces a threatening or
unfamiliar situation
Communication - ANS the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas and information
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, Attitude - ANS is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal knowledge
and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her to behave in a certain way in
regard to that person or thing
Race - ANS generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and physical
characteristics
Ethnicity - ANS refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - ANS is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of the universe, and
hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - ANS is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without
knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - ANS a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - ANS acting on the basis if prejudice
Sexual Harassment - ANS is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior that is not
welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome sexual or gender based behavior
Booking - ANS recording of certain information relating to the inmate during the admissions
process
Detainer - ANS a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain a person in
custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or transfer to another jurisdiction
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, Commitment - ANS an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive and place in
jail the person so committed
Warrant - ANS a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or some other
person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a person accused of an
offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - ANS is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any peace officer of the
State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an offense and bring him before
that court immediately, or on a day or at a term stated in the writ
Writ of Attachment - ANS is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or by any
magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or proceeding authorized
by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body of a witness and bring him before
court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or
of the defendant, as the case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - ANS when a compelling is made to a magistrate that any person
within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he shall issue a warrant of
arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused before him
Search - ANS the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding evidence
ot in plain sight
Contraband - ANS is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is prohibited by
law or agency directives
Strip Search - ANS when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be necessary, inmates
should undergo a through strip search for weapons and contraband thsy may pose a threat to
the security of safety of thr facility
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - ANS is a state regulatory agency for local
law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state if Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - ANS is the regulatory agency for all county jails
and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - ANS is the statutory authority for the Commission to establish rules
that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - ANS the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - ANS was created in 1992 to administer and enforce provisions
relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of state officers and employees
Jail Climate - ANS the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail facility; inmate
playing games with staff
Stress - ANS a body condition that may occur when a person faces a threatening or
unfamiliar situation
Communication - ANS the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas and information
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, Attitude - ANS is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal knowledge
and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her to behave in a certain way in
regard to that person or thing
Race - ANS generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and physical
characteristics
Ethnicity - ANS refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - ANS is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of the universe, and
hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - ANS is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without
knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - ANS a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - ANS acting on the basis if prejudice
Sexual Harassment - ANS is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior that is not
welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome sexual or gender based behavior
Booking - ANS recording of certain information relating to the inmate during the admissions
process
Detainer - ANS a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain a person in
custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or transfer to another jurisdiction
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, Commitment - ANS an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive and place in
jail the person so committed
Warrant - ANS a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or some other
person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a person accused of an
offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - ANS is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any peace officer of the
State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an offense and bring him before
that court immediately, or on a day or at a term stated in the writ
Writ of Attachment - ANS is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or by any
magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or proceeding authorized
by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body of a witness and bring him before
court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or forthwith, to testify in behalf of the State or
of the defendant, as the case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - ANS when a compelling is made to a magistrate that any person
within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he shall issue a warrant of
arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused before him
Search - ANS the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding evidence
ot in plain sight
Contraband - ANS is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is prohibited by
law or agency directives
Strip Search - ANS when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be necessary, inmates
should undergo a through strip search for weapons and contraband thsy may pose a threat to
the security of safety of thr facility
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