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TCOLE BPOC – Penal Code Final Exam (Questions and 100% Verified Answers, Latest 2025/2026) – Complete Law Enforcement Study Guide

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This document provides the verified final exam questions and answers for the TCOLE Basic Peace Officer Course (BPOC) – Penal Code module for the 2025/2026 training year. It covers essential Texas Penal Code sections, including crimes against persons, property offenses, public order crimes, criminal responsibility, defenses, and punishments. Ideal for cadets preparing for the state licensing exam, this study guide ensures accurate, up-to-date explanations aligned with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) curriculum and current state law.

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Penal Code BPOC Final Exam Questions and 100% Verified
Latest 2025/2026

1. Objectives of Code: establish system or prohibitions, penalties, and correctional measures to deal with conduct

that causes or threatens harm to individual or public interests

2. Sec. 38.10 Bail Jumping/ Failure to Appear: a. intentionally/ knowingly person fails to appear if lawfully

released from custody with/without bail, on condition that he appear in accordance with terms of release.

c. Class A Misdemeanor

d. Class C Misdemenaor if; ottense requiring actors appearance is punishable by fine only

e. 3rd degree felony if; ottense requiring actors apperance is a classified as felony

3. Act: bodily movement, voluntary or involunary, and includes speech

4. Actor: person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. "suspect" used in this code, means "actor"

5. Benefit: anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose

welfare the beneficiary is interested
6. Bodily Injury: physical pain, illness, any impairment of physical condition
7. Exception: prosecuting attorney must negate the existance of an exception and prove beyond reasonable doubt defendant

does not fall within the exception
8. Defense, Affirmative Defense: prosecuting attroney not required to negate existance

9. Sec. 38.13. Hindering Proceedings by Disordely Conduct: Class A Misdemeanor person

Intentionally hinders oflcial proceeding by noise, violent/tumultuous behavior or disturbance



,person Recklessly hinders oflcial proceeding by above actions after explicit oflcial request to desist

10. Sec. 38.14. Taking or Attempting to Take Weapon from Peace Officer, Federal Special

Investigator, Employee or Official of Correctional Facility, Parole Officer, Community

Supervision and Corrections Department Officer, or Commissioned Security Officer: person

intentionally/ knowingly and with force takes/attempts to take from a peace ofl- cer/federal investigator/ oflcial their

nightstick, stun gun, personal protection chemical dispensing device wih intention of harming oflcer or a third person. person is

presumed to know if distinctive uniform or badge worn or if oflcer identifies himself
3rd degree felony if weapon taken
STJ felony if attempt to take weapon made

11. Sec. 38. 15. Interference with Public Duties: person interferes with Criminal Negligence with peace

oflcer, EMS, animal (under supervision of oflcial), fire fighter (fighting fire/investigating fire) while performing duty imposed by law

or transmission of communication over citizens band radio channel to inquire about emergency Class B Misdemeanor






, 12. Coercion: threat, however communicated to commit an ottense; inflict

bodily injury in future on person threatened or another;

accuse person of ottense;

harm credit or business repute;

take or withold action as a public servant or cause public servant to withold action

13. Sec. 38.17. Failure to Stop or Report Aggravated Sexual Assault of Child: actor, other than

person with care, custody or control of child, observes commission/attempted commission of agg sexual assault of child or cont

sexual abuse of child in circumstances reasonable person would believe ottense of sexual nature was being/about to be committed

against child and fails to assist or immediately report ottense if actor could assist without suttering sbi or death
Class A Misdemeanor

14. Conduct: act or omission and accompanying mental states

15. Consent: assent in fact whether express or apparent

16. Deadly weapon: firearm or anything designed, made, adapted for purpose of inflicting death or sbi anything

that in the manner of its use is capable or causing death or sbi

17. Effective consent: includes consent of person legally authorized to act for owner Consent

not ettective if;

induced by force, threat, or fraud

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