UTAH SFO FINAL EXAM Question and
Answer | Ultimate Review Edition |
Grade A+
• What are the officer's 4 responsibilities to provide assistance to a DV victim? -✓✓
medical attention, transportation to alternate shelter, stand-by for removal of personal
property, personal safety options
• What are the Six Pillars of Character? -✓✓ Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility,
Fairness, Caring, Citizenship
• The Peelian Principles are -✓✓ maintaining a relationship with the public, recognizing
that police legitimacy is based on public approval, using physical force only when
persuasion, advice and warning prove insufficient, using the minimum degree of force
necessary, enforcing laws objectively and impartially
• What is malfeasance? -✓✓ Intentional conduct that is wrongful or unlawful.
• What is misfeasance? -✓✓ Act that is proper but in a wrongful or injurious manner.
• What is nonfeasance? -✓✓ Failure to carry out a duty that is expected to be carried
out in accordance with an officer's general standard of care.
• What are the 5 rationalizations of unethical behavior? -✓✓ Denial of victim, denial of
responsibility, denial of injury, social weighting, moral justification.
• What are the basic components of emotional intelligence? -✓✓ Self-awareness, self-
regulation, empathy, motivation, social skills.
• Circumstances in which duty to intervene applies. -✓✓ Violation of a person's
constitutional rights, use of unreasonable or unnecessary force, unlawful/false arrest,
deprivation of medical care
• Sanctity of life; an officer MUST intervene when -✓✓ a fellow officer is kneeling on
neck, kneeling on spine for extended period of time, striking a subject in handcuffs,
leaving a handcuffed subject lying prone
• Mission and function of POST -✓✓ promote and ensure safety and welfare of the
citizens, establish minimum standards and training
, • Statutory responsibilities of POST -✓✓ establish curriculum for basic training, certify
instructors, certify peace officers and dispatchers
• 3 types of bias -✓✓ implicit, explicit, institutional
• How bias is exhibited -✓✓ Stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination
• Challenges to police/community interactions -✓✓ language barriers, fear from how
police may have acted in country of origin, federal immigration enforcement, lack of
awareness of cultural differences, negative experiences with individual officers
• Impacts of negative perceptions of police -✓✓ willingness to break the law, mistrust of
the police, refusal to cooperate with officers, resistance against obeying lawful orders
• First amendment -✓✓ freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, right
to assemble peacefully
• Second amendment -✓✓ right to bear arms
• Fourth amendment -✓✓ protection from unreasonable search and seizure, warrants
shall not be issued without probable cause.
• Fifth amendment -✓✓ protection from double jeopardy, right to remain silent, right to a
fair trial, requires charges to be brought from indictment
• Sixth amendment -✓✓ right to speedy trial, right to a public trial, right to impartial jury,
right to an attorney, right to notice of accusations
• Seventh amendment -✓✓ right to a jury in civil matters
• Eighth amendment -✓✓ right to reasonable bail, protection from cruel and unusual
punishment
• Tenth Amendment -✓✓ Any power not given to the federal government by the
Constitution must remain with the states and the people.
• Fourteenth Amendment -✓✓ restricts the states from "abridging" the rights of the
citizens, which are granted under the Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Actus Reus -✓✓ criminal act, physical act of the crime
• Mens Rea -✓✓ criminal intent, mental state
Answer | Ultimate Review Edition |
Grade A+
• What are the officer's 4 responsibilities to provide assistance to a DV victim? -✓✓
medical attention, transportation to alternate shelter, stand-by for removal of personal
property, personal safety options
• What are the Six Pillars of Character? -✓✓ Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility,
Fairness, Caring, Citizenship
• The Peelian Principles are -✓✓ maintaining a relationship with the public, recognizing
that police legitimacy is based on public approval, using physical force only when
persuasion, advice and warning prove insufficient, using the minimum degree of force
necessary, enforcing laws objectively and impartially
• What is malfeasance? -✓✓ Intentional conduct that is wrongful or unlawful.
• What is misfeasance? -✓✓ Act that is proper but in a wrongful or injurious manner.
• What is nonfeasance? -✓✓ Failure to carry out a duty that is expected to be carried
out in accordance with an officer's general standard of care.
• What are the 5 rationalizations of unethical behavior? -✓✓ Denial of victim, denial of
responsibility, denial of injury, social weighting, moral justification.
• What are the basic components of emotional intelligence? -✓✓ Self-awareness, self-
regulation, empathy, motivation, social skills.
• Circumstances in which duty to intervene applies. -✓✓ Violation of a person's
constitutional rights, use of unreasonable or unnecessary force, unlawful/false arrest,
deprivation of medical care
• Sanctity of life; an officer MUST intervene when -✓✓ a fellow officer is kneeling on
neck, kneeling on spine for extended period of time, striking a subject in handcuffs,
leaving a handcuffed subject lying prone
• Mission and function of POST -✓✓ promote and ensure safety and welfare of the
citizens, establish minimum standards and training
, • Statutory responsibilities of POST -✓✓ establish curriculum for basic training, certify
instructors, certify peace officers and dispatchers
• 3 types of bias -✓✓ implicit, explicit, institutional
• How bias is exhibited -✓✓ Stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination
• Challenges to police/community interactions -✓✓ language barriers, fear from how
police may have acted in country of origin, federal immigration enforcement, lack of
awareness of cultural differences, negative experiences with individual officers
• Impacts of negative perceptions of police -✓✓ willingness to break the law, mistrust of
the police, refusal to cooperate with officers, resistance against obeying lawful orders
• First amendment -✓✓ freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, right
to assemble peacefully
• Second amendment -✓✓ right to bear arms
• Fourth amendment -✓✓ protection from unreasonable search and seizure, warrants
shall not be issued without probable cause.
• Fifth amendment -✓✓ protection from double jeopardy, right to remain silent, right to a
fair trial, requires charges to be brought from indictment
• Sixth amendment -✓✓ right to speedy trial, right to a public trial, right to impartial jury,
right to an attorney, right to notice of accusations
• Seventh amendment -✓✓ right to a jury in civil matters
• Eighth amendment -✓✓ right to reasonable bail, protection from cruel and unusual
punishment
• Tenth Amendment -✓✓ Any power not given to the federal government by the
Constitution must remain with the states and the people.
• Fourteenth Amendment -✓✓ restricts the states from "abridging" the rights of the
citizens, which are granted under the Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Actus Reus -✓✓ criminal act, physical act of the crime
• Mens Rea -✓✓ criminal intent, mental state
