UTAH LEO 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS GRADED
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✔✔What is the legal basis for vehicle inventory? - ✔✔- Inventory of all property prior to
vehicle impound
✔✔Reasons to search a vehicle: - ✔✔- Probable cause, warrant
- Consent
- Incident to arrest
✔✔Why do we inventory a vehicle? - ✔✔- Protect owner's property from theft
- Protect officer from the liability
- Contraband may be seized
✔✔When searching the passenger compartment, what order do you systematically
search? - ✔✔- Glove box/ Consoles
- Headliner/ visors
- Floor boards
- Under the seats
✔✔When searching the trunk of a car, what order do you systematically search? - ✔✔-
Compartments
- Spare tire
- Containers
✔✔Carroll Doctrine - ✔✔- You do not need a search warrant because the car is mobile.
✔✔What 5 factors influence overall stopping distance of a vehicle? - ✔✔- Vehicle
condition
- Road condition
- Weather condition
- Speed
- Operator condition
✔✔What are the 8 common accident scene hazards? - ✔✔- Fuel spills
- Hazardous cargo
- Vehicle fires
- Moving traffic
- Bodily fluids
- Power lines
- Unstable vehicles
- Debris
✔✔What are the materials necessary to complete the investigation of traffic? (11 Items)
- ✔✔- Measuring tape
,- Roll-O-Meter
- Traffic cones
- Flares
- Calculator or nomographs
- Diagram forms
- accident report forms
- Road chalk/paint
- Camera/ tripod
- Accident template
- Witness statement forms
✔✔When can you move the vehicle off the road after a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Minor
Damage
- No injuries
- Dangerous traffic conditions
✔✔When do you not move the vehicle off the road after a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Death
Involved
- Serious injuries
-Extensive property damage
✔✔What are proper steps and conditions to perform a skid test? - ✔✔- Vehicle in proper
condition
- Surface in question adjeacent to the scene
- Known speed
- Panic stop
- Measure distance
- Drag factors are used with suspect skid marks to determine minimum speeds
✔✔What are the 5 different types of skid marks? - ✔✔- Side skid
- Locked wheel skid
- Impending skid
- Centrifugal skid
- Acceleration skid
✔✔What are different methods of measuring skid marks? - ✔✔- Measuring tape
- Roll- O-Meter
- Identification of the "fade" portion of the skid
✔✔When referring to to skid marks, what does the "Fade" mean? - ✔✔Fade is a early
or beginning potion of a skid mark that is the first part of the mark to disappear.
✔✔What are Newton's three laws? - ✔✔1. Every object remains in a state of rest unless
it is acted on by an external unbalanced force.
2. Force = (mass)(acceleration)
, 3. Every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction,
✔✔How do you protect a crime scene? - ✔✔- Use a patrol vehicle to provide protection
from oncoming traffic
- Use of cones / flares
- Treat accident scene like crime scene
✔✔What are the most logical points to stop/alter traffic? - ✔✔- Where natural gaps
occur
- Behind slow moving vehicles
- Others
- Routing traffic around the accident scene
- Do not create "islands" or split traffic around a accident scene
✔✔What are the 4 proper hand and arm signals? - ✔✔- Start traffic
- Stop traffic
- Speed up traffic
- Slow down traffic
✔✔What kind of damages are there in a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Cosmetic damage
- Structual damage
✔✔What are some accident investigation skills needed to process a traffic scene? -
✔✔- Photographing
- Conducting an inventory
-Obtain information regarding an accident victim's injuries
- Proper methods of evidence collection at an accident scene
✔✔What unique characteristics does a hit and run include? - ✔✔- Absence of operator
- Absence of witnesses
- Paint transfers
- Physical evidence
✔✔With accidents with damage under $1,500 do you have to write a report? - ✔✔- No.
You have discretion to write reports on accidents less then $1,500.
✔✔What is a motor vehicle crash? - ✔✔An un-stabilized situation which includes at
least one harmful event and involves one or more motor vehicles.
✔✔What is a law enforcement officer's responsibility while off duty? - ✔✔The goal is to
not create a greater hazard than the one they are trying to overcome.
✔✔What are the 4 primary levels of law enforcement problems likely to be encountered
while off-duty? - ✔✔- Minor situations where intervention is not required
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✔✔What is the legal basis for vehicle inventory? - ✔✔- Inventory of all property prior to
vehicle impound
✔✔Reasons to search a vehicle: - ✔✔- Probable cause, warrant
- Consent
- Incident to arrest
✔✔Why do we inventory a vehicle? - ✔✔- Protect owner's property from theft
- Protect officer from the liability
- Contraband may be seized
✔✔When searching the passenger compartment, what order do you systematically
search? - ✔✔- Glove box/ Consoles
- Headliner/ visors
- Floor boards
- Under the seats
✔✔When searching the trunk of a car, what order do you systematically search? - ✔✔-
Compartments
- Spare tire
- Containers
✔✔Carroll Doctrine - ✔✔- You do not need a search warrant because the car is mobile.
✔✔What 5 factors influence overall stopping distance of a vehicle? - ✔✔- Vehicle
condition
- Road condition
- Weather condition
- Speed
- Operator condition
✔✔What are the 8 common accident scene hazards? - ✔✔- Fuel spills
- Hazardous cargo
- Vehicle fires
- Moving traffic
- Bodily fluids
- Power lines
- Unstable vehicles
- Debris
✔✔What are the materials necessary to complete the investigation of traffic? (11 Items)
- ✔✔- Measuring tape
,- Roll-O-Meter
- Traffic cones
- Flares
- Calculator or nomographs
- Diagram forms
- accident report forms
- Road chalk/paint
- Camera/ tripod
- Accident template
- Witness statement forms
✔✔When can you move the vehicle off the road after a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Minor
Damage
- No injuries
- Dangerous traffic conditions
✔✔When do you not move the vehicle off the road after a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Death
Involved
- Serious injuries
-Extensive property damage
✔✔What are proper steps and conditions to perform a skid test? - ✔✔- Vehicle in proper
condition
- Surface in question adjeacent to the scene
- Known speed
- Panic stop
- Measure distance
- Drag factors are used with suspect skid marks to determine minimum speeds
✔✔What are the 5 different types of skid marks? - ✔✔- Side skid
- Locked wheel skid
- Impending skid
- Centrifugal skid
- Acceleration skid
✔✔What are different methods of measuring skid marks? - ✔✔- Measuring tape
- Roll- O-Meter
- Identification of the "fade" portion of the skid
✔✔When referring to to skid marks, what does the "Fade" mean? - ✔✔Fade is a early
or beginning potion of a skid mark that is the first part of the mark to disappear.
✔✔What are Newton's three laws? - ✔✔1. Every object remains in a state of rest unless
it is acted on by an external unbalanced force.
2. Force = (mass)(acceleration)
, 3. Every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction,
✔✔How do you protect a crime scene? - ✔✔- Use a patrol vehicle to provide protection
from oncoming traffic
- Use of cones / flares
- Treat accident scene like crime scene
✔✔What are the most logical points to stop/alter traffic? - ✔✔- Where natural gaps
occur
- Behind slow moving vehicles
- Others
- Routing traffic around the accident scene
- Do not create "islands" or split traffic around a accident scene
✔✔What are the 4 proper hand and arm signals? - ✔✔- Start traffic
- Stop traffic
- Speed up traffic
- Slow down traffic
✔✔What kind of damages are there in a traffic accident? - ✔✔- Cosmetic damage
- Structual damage
✔✔What are some accident investigation skills needed to process a traffic scene? -
✔✔- Photographing
- Conducting an inventory
-Obtain information regarding an accident victim's injuries
- Proper methods of evidence collection at an accident scene
✔✔What unique characteristics does a hit and run include? - ✔✔- Absence of operator
- Absence of witnesses
- Paint transfers
- Physical evidence
✔✔With accidents with damage under $1,500 do you have to write a report? - ✔✔- No.
You have discretion to write reports on accidents less then $1,500.
✔✔What is a motor vehicle crash? - ✔✔An un-stabilized situation which includes at
least one harmful event and involves one or more motor vehicles.
✔✔What is a law enforcement officer's responsibility while off duty? - ✔✔The goal is to
not create a greater hazard than the one they are trying to overcome.
✔✔What are the 4 primary levels of law enforcement problems likely to be encountered
while off-duty? - ✔✔- Minor situations where intervention is not required
