BLEA EXAMS SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Requirements: - ✔✔1. Legally obtained
2. Relevant.
3. Identifiable and
4. A chain of custody must be maintained
✔✔Investigative Hypothesis - ✔✔Theory as to what occured based on the actual
observations of Who, What, When Where, Why, and How.
✔✔Crisis: - ✔✔an emotionally significant event that causes stress, overwhelms
someone's usual problem-solving skills, and results in chaos.
✔✔Stress - ✔✔Main ingredient for a crisis. Three sources:
Environmental
Psycho-social
Personality
✔✔Four types of stress - ✔✔Acute (right now)
Chronic (ongoing)
Accumulative (compounding)
Delayed (PTSD)
✔✔Verbal/Verbal Communication - ✔✔What we say with our words, and the signals we
send to people on how to take those words.
✔✔Effective Communication - ✔✔Ability to select appropriate means of communication,
often under surprising or stressful circumstances.
✔✔Tactical Communications - ✔✔A planned method of talking to people. It is also a
technique for gaining voluntary compliance from difficult people using professional
language.
✔✔Empathy - ✔✔The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to and
vicariously experiencing the feelings and thoughts of another.
✔✔Active Listening - ✔✔A way of listening that focuses entirely on what the other
person is saying and confirms understanding of both the content of the message and
the emotions and feelings underlying the message to ensure that understanding is
accurate."
✔✔Active listening includes the following: - ✔✔Empathy
Paraprasing
probing
, verbal prompts
silence
✔✔The three E's of Traffic enforcement - ✔✔Education
Engineering
Enforcement
✔✔Ethics in traffic law enforcement - ✔✔Perceptions (of the public)
Professionalism
Fairness (common sense)
✔✔Obedience to LEO, Flagmen or firefighters RCW 46.61.015 - ✔✔No person shall
willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any duly authorized
flagman or any police officer or fire fighter invested by law to direct, control, or regulate
traffic.
✔✔Refusal to give information to or cooperate with Officer RCW 46.61.020 - ✔✔It is
unlawful for any person while operating or in charge of any vehicle when requested by a
police officer to:
*Refuse to give the name and address/ of the owner of the vehicle
*Give a false name and address
*Refuse or neglect to stop (not eluding) when properly signaled
*Refuse to produce their registration and proof of insurance
*Refuse to give their driver's license or permit to an officer to take their driver's license
for the purpose of examination.
*Refuse to permit examination of any equipment or weighing of such vehicle.
✔✔Duty to obey LEO RCW 46.61.021 - ✔✔*Any person requested to stop by an LEO
for an infraction has a duty to stop.
*Officer may detain for a reasonable amount of time.
*Any person has the duty to identify themselves.
✔✔Failure to obey an LEO (traffic) RCW 46.61.022 - ✔✔Is a misdemeanor
✔✔Attempting to elude pursuing police vehicle - ✔✔Class C felony.
✔✔ Purpose of Patrol Procedures - ✔✔to learn and develop principles used for patrol
work, to maximize your effectiveness, and to minimize the associated risks with patrol.
✔✔The Five Primary Objectives of Patrol Procedures - ✔✔1. Protect and Serve
2. Crime Prevention
3. Preserve the Peace
4. Enforce all laws
5. Arrest
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Requirements: - ✔✔1. Legally obtained
2. Relevant.
3. Identifiable and
4. A chain of custody must be maintained
✔✔Investigative Hypothesis - ✔✔Theory as to what occured based on the actual
observations of Who, What, When Where, Why, and How.
✔✔Crisis: - ✔✔an emotionally significant event that causes stress, overwhelms
someone's usual problem-solving skills, and results in chaos.
✔✔Stress - ✔✔Main ingredient for a crisis. Three sources:
Environmental
Psycho-social
Personality
✔✔Four types of stress - ✔✔Acute (right now)
Chronic (ongoing)
Accumulative (compounding)
Delayed (PTSD)
✔✔Verbal/Verbal Communication - ✔✔What we say with our words, and the signals we
send to people on how to take those words.
✔✔Effective Communication - ✔✔Ability to select appropriate means of communication,
often under surprising or stressful circumstances.
✔✔Tactical Communications - ✔✔A planned method of talking to people. It is also a
technique for gaining voluntary compliance from difficult people using professional
language.
✔✔Empathy - ✔✔The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to and
vicariously experiencing the feelings and thoughts of another.
✔✔Active Listening - ✔✔A way of listening that focuses entirely on what the other
person is saying and confirms understanding of both the content of the message and
the emotions and feelings underlying the message to ensure that understanding is
accurate."
✔✔Active listening includes the following: - ✔✔Empathy
Paraprasing
probing
, verbal prompts
silence
✔✔The three E's of Traffic enforcement - ✔✔Education
Engineering
Enforcement
✔✔Ethics in traffic law enforcement - ✔✔Perceptions (of the public)
Professionalism
Fairness (common sense)
✔✔Obedience to LEO, Flagmen or firefighters RCW 46.61.015 - ✔✔No person shall
willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any duly authorized
flagman or any police officer or fire fighter invested by law to direct, control, or regulate
traffic.
✔✔Refusal to give information to or cooperate with Officer RCW 46.61.020 - ✔✔It is
unlawful for any person while operating or in charge of any vehicle when requested by a
police officer to:
*Refuse to give the name and address/ of the owner of the vehicle
*Give a false name and address
*Refuse or neglect to stop (not eluding) when properly signaled
*Refuse to produce their registration and proof of insurance
*Refuse to give their driver's license or permit to an officer to take their driver's license
for the purpose of examination.
*Refuse to permit examination of any equipment or weighing of such vehicle.
✔✔Duty to obey LEO RCW 46.61.021 - ✔✔*Any person requested to stop by an LEO
for an infraction has a duty to stop.
*Officer may detain for a reasonable amount of time.
*Any person has the duty to identify themselves.
✔✔Failure to obey an LEO (traffic) RCW 46.61.022 - ✔✔Is a misdemeanor
✔✔Attempting to elude pursuing police vehicle - ✔✔Class C felony.
✔✔ Purpose of Patrol Procedures - ✔✔to learn and develop principles used for patrol
work, to maximize your effectiveness, and to minimize the associated risks with patrol.
✔✔The Five Primary Objectives of Patrol Procedures - ✔✔1. Protect and Serve
2. Crime Prevention
3. Preserve the Peace
4. Enforce all laws
5. Arrest
