POLICING EXAM CHAPTER 7: CORE POLICE
FUNCTIONS || ALL CORRECT.
The police mission or function is fivefold which involves correct answers 1. Enforce and
support the law
2. Investigate crimes and apprehend offenders
3. Prevent crime
4. Ensure domestic peace and tranquility (order maintenance)
5. Provide Service
1-3 contribute to enforcing the law
Law Enforcement
controlling crime by intervening in situations in which correct answers the law has clearly
been violated
Law Enforcement
identify and correct answers apprehend suspects (investigating crime)
Law Enforcement
crime prevention
proactive strategies such as correct answers (stop frisk, community policing) or strategies that
prevent crime from occurring
Law Enforcement
specialization and focus on certain factors are correct answers becoming more common such
as gang units, vice units, SWAT
Order Maintenance
Preventing behavior that correct answers disturbs the public peace such as public
drunkenness
Order Maintenance
requires a high level of correct answers discretion
Order Maintenance
usually handled by correct answers patrol officers
, Service
define service- correct answers providing assistance
usually unrelated to criminal matters (first aid & directing traffic)
Service
80% of request for police assistance correct answers do not involve crimes
Patrol
prevention patrol (deter) correct answers based on deterrence theory- likelihood of offending
goes down when the likelihood of getting caught goes up
Patrol
most patrol is correct answers random
Patrol
Directed Patrol correct answers hot spots, hot times
saturation and focused patrol are related terms which involves flooding an area with police or
focus on a particular problem respectively
includes
crime peaks (times of day when certain crimes increase)
able to identify hot times and hot spots with crime mapping
makes the most out of a departments limited resources
Patrol Methods (study tool pg. 114)
COPS funding correct answers President Clinton's violent crime control and law enforcement
Act (1994)
COPS
Clinton wanted correct answers an increase of police ability to fight crime and improve
community policing capabilities
8.8 billion allocated which led to development of office of community oriented policing
services (COPS office
hire more officers
FUNCTIONS || ALL CORRECT.
The police mission or function is fivefold which involves correct answers 1. Enforce and
support the law
2. Investigate crimes and apprehend offenders
3. Prevent crime
4. Ensure domestic peace and tranquility (order maintenance)
5. Provide Service
1-3 contribute to enforcing the law
Law Enforcement
controlling crime by intervening in situations in which correct answers the law has clearly
been violated
Law Enforcement
identify and correct answers apprehend suspects (investigating crime)
Law Enforcement
crime prevention
proactive strategies such as correct answers (stop frisk, community policing) or strategies that
prevent crime from occurring
Law Enforcement
specialization and focus on certain factors are correct answers becoming more common such
as gang units, vice units, SWAT
Order Maintenance
Preventing behavior that correct answers disturbs the public peace such as public
drunkenness
Order Maintenance
requires a high level of correct answers discretion
Order Maintenance
usually handled by correct answers patrol officers
, Service
define service- correct answers providing assistance
usually unrelated to criminal matters (first aid & directing traffic)
Service
80% of request for police assistance correct answers do not involve crimes
Patrol
prevention patrol (deter) correct answers based on deterrence theory- likelihood of offending
goes down when the likelihood of getting caught goes up
Patrol
most patrol is correct answers random
Patrol
Directed Patrol correct answers hot spots, hot times
saturation and focused patrol are related terms which involves flooding an area with police or
focus on a particular problem respectively
includes
crime peaks (times of day when certain crimes increase)
able to identify hot times and hot spots with crime mapping
makes the most out of a departments limited resources
Patrol Methods (study tool pg. 114)
COPS funding correct answers President Clinton's violent crime control and law enforcement
Act (1994)
COPS
Clinton wanted correct answers an increase of police ability to fight crime and improve
community policing capabilities
8.8 billion allocated which led to development of office of community oriented policing
services (COPS office
hire more officers
