CDCR EXAM 3 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
Identify the legal basis for requiring investigative reports - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔PC, section 11107 requires each sheriff or police chief executive to
furnish reports specified misdemeanors and felonies to the DOJ
department of justice
Report must have - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Describe the nature and character of
each crime, includes supporting evidence collected, note all particular
circumstances, include all additional and supplemental information
pertaining to the suspected criminal activity
Why should the ability to write reports be personally important to you as a
correctional peace officer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Moral obligation, stand up to
legal scrutiny, and the right thing to do
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
1
,Why are departmental reports important for the legal process in court
system, both criminal and civilly? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔legal process relies on
departmental reports as the main account of the event or incident
Identify the three-step process for taking notes during a full interview - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Listen attentively, take notes and ask questions, verify
information
Identify the primary questions that must be answered within an effective
report - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Who, what, when, where, how, why (if possible)
Initial information - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Describe the officer's immediate
observations of any action taken upon arrival at the scene
identification of the crime - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the facts, or the evidence of a
crime, referred to as the corpus delicti it, or the body of the crime
Identification of involved parties - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Can include the person(s)
who reported the incident, victim(s), witness(es), or suspect(s)
Witness/victim statements: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔helps place events in their
proper sequence, establish the elements of the crime
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
2
, Crime scene specifics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physical condition of the scene it's
self, chronology of events, location of physical evidence
Property information: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Such as brand names, model/serial
numbers, description like color, unique markings and dimensions, value of
stolen item, Location where the item was found or stolen and relationship of
the item to the crime/incident
CDCR correctional officer actions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Complete report should
clearly identify all actions taken by an officer, actions can include Searches
conducted, seizures of evidence, arrests, standard procedures such as
knock and notice, field show up, Miranda admonishments, use of force,
medical attention, safety measures taken, disposition of suspect, methods
used to preserve evidence or capture essential information
CDCR memorandum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Written for a variety of reasons,
including lost staff identification card, observed misconduct by staff or
reports of inspection
Counseling only RVR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔used to document an inmates minor
misconduct
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
Identify the legal basis for requiring investigative reports - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔PC, section 11107 requires each sheriff or police chief executive to
furnish reports specified misdemeanors and felonies to the DOJ
department of justice
Report must have - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Describe the nature and character of
each crime, includes supporting evidence collected, note all particular
circumstances, include all additional and supplemental information
pertaining to the suspected criminal activity
Why should the ability to write reports be personally important to you as a
correctional peace officer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Moral obligation, stand up to
legal scrutiny, and the right thing to do
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
1
,Why are departmental reports important for the legal process in court
system, both criminal and civilly? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔legal process relies on
departmental reports as the main account of the event or incident
Identify the three-step process for taking notes during a full interview - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Listen attentively, take notes and ask questions, verify
information
Identify the primary questions that must be answered within an effective
report - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Who, what, when, where, how, why (if possible)
Initial information - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Describe the officer's immediate
observations of any action taken upon arrival at the scene
identification of the crime - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the facts, or the evidence of a
crime, referred to as the corpus delicti it, or the body of the crime
Identification of involved parties - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Can include the person(s)
who reported the incident, victim(s), witness(es), or suspect(s)
Witness/victim statements: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔helps place events in their
proper sequence, establish the elements of the crime
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
2
, Crime scene specifics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physical condition of the scene it's
self, chronology of events, location of physical evidence
Property information: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Such as brand names, model/serial
numbers, description like color, unique markings and dimensions, value of
stolen item, Location where the item was found or stolen and relationship of
the item to the crime/incident
CDCR correctional officer actions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Complete report should
clearly identify all actions taken by an officer, actions can include Searches
conducted, seizures of evidence, arrests, standard procedures such as
knock and notice, field show up, Miranda admonishments, use of force,
medical attention, safety measures taken, disposition of suspect, methods
used to preserve evidence or capture essential information
CDCR memorandum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Written for a variety of reasons,
including lost staff identification card, observed misconduct by staff or
reports of inspection
Counseling only RVR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔used to document an inmates minor
misconduct
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3
