COLORADO POST Most Updated Question and
Answer (2026/2027) | Verified Practice
Material | A+ Verified
• What is Sensory Distortion? -✓✓ An Officer may hallucinate that an Offender
has already shot him
• How Does an Officer React to a Threat to Another Person? -✓✓ Locate, React,
Control and Identify
• The Simplest Way for an Officer to Relieve Stress? -✓✓ Deep Belly Breathing
• When is an Officer justified in putting a mentally ill person in Jail? -✓✓ When
there is no room at an Institution and he is place in jail for safetey reasons. A
menetally ill person can only be held in a Jail for a maximum of 24 hours
• When there is a Robbery in Progress and a suspect is in the area an Officer
should? -✓✓ Proceed as rapidly as possible, but use extreme caution. Assume the
suspect is still at the scene.
• When an Officer takes a tape recorder to the crime scene he must? -✓✓ Record
any victim, witness and suspect statements related to the crime. Do not cherry
pick your witnesses
• Am Officer's note taking at a crime scene is minimized by? -✓✓ The type of
offense, conditions of the case, officer attitude, officer ability and the number of
officers assigned to the case
,• When Going to the scene of a domestic dispute, there are four phases, what are
they? -✓✓ 1. Assess the situation
2. Take immediate corrective action
3. Listen & Observe
4. Follow up
• When an Officer is interviewing a witness or victim to a crime and the witness
heard a loud noise, what perception might the witness have? -✓✓ A small crow
may seem large
• When doing a building search, what is the best way to approach? -✓✓ Diagonal
deployment
• Skids that are broken without release of the brake pressure. They occur when a
locked and sliding wheel bounce over a bump, rut rail, or hole in the road It is
called? -✓✓ A skip skid mark
• Which way do you turn the steering wheel when making a traffic stop? -✓✓
Turn wheel to the left
• On an unknown risk felony stop, what is the best way to approach, In a two man
car? -✓✓ One officer approaches and the other stays out of the kill zone.
• What is verbal judo used for -✓✓ To get a person to comply with verbal
commands
, • What are the characteristics of a hate crime? -✓✓ No gain is made, not property
is taken, but usually involves harassment or assault.
• When you are testifying on the stand, once you are finished what should you
do? -✓✓ Leave the court room and resume your normal duties
• What are TWO CORE Components of Community Policing? -✓✓ 1. Community
Partnership
2. Problem Solving
• What part of S.A.R.A. model is a police officer a part of? -✓✓ Assessment
• Characteristics of Gang Activity are? -✓✓ 1. Graffiti
2. Drive by shooting
3. Collecting on a street corner, alley, schools etc...
• Under C.R.S. What can a victim request in writing? -✓✓ Release data of the
offender, parole date
• By law who must report Child Abuse? -✓✓ Teachers, School authorities, child
care personnel, physicians, therapists, any school employee i.e. janitor
• Steps in Crime Scene Sketching -✓✓ 1. Observe and Plan
2. Measure and outline the area
3. Plot objects of evidence
Answer (2026/2027) | Verified Practice
Material | A+ Verified
• What is Sensory Distortion? -✓✓ An Officer may hallucinate that an Offender
has already shot him
• How Does an Officer React to a Threat to Another Person? -✓✓ Locate, React,
Control and Identify
• The Simplest Way for an Officer to Relieve Stress? -✓✓ Deep Belly Breathing
• When is an Officer justified in putting a mentally ill person in Jail? -✓✓ When
there is no room at an Institution and he is place in jail for safetey reasons. A
menetally ill person can only be held in a Jail for a maximum of 24 hours
• When there is a Robbery in Progress and a suspect is in the area an Officer
should? -✓✓ Proceed as rapidly as possible, but use extreme caution. Assume the
suspect is still at the scene.
• When an Officer takes a tape recorder to the crime scene he must? -✓✓ Record
any victim, witness and suspect statements related to the crime. Do not cherry
pick your witnesses
• Am Officer's note taking at a crime scene is minimized by? -✓✓ The type of
offense, conditions of the case, officer attitude, officer ability and the number of
officers assigned to the case
,• When Going to the scene of a domestic dispute, there are four phases, what are
they? -✓✓ 1. Assess the situation
2. Take immediate corrective action
3. Listen & Observe
4. Follow up
• When an Officer is interviewing a witness or victim to a crime and the witness
heard a loud noise, what perception might the witness have? -✓✓ A small crow
may seem large
• When doing a building search, what is the best way to approach? -✓✓ Diagonal
deployment
• Skids that are broken without release of the brake pressure. They occur when a
locked and sliding wheel bounce over a bump, rut rail, or hole in the road It is
called? -✓✓ A skip skid mark
• Which way do you turn the steering wheel when making a traffic stop? -✓✓
Turn wheel to the left
• On an unknown risk felony stop, what is the best way to approach, In a two man
car? -✓✓ One officer approaches and the other stays out of the kill zone.
• What is verbal judo used for -✓✓ To get a person to comply with verbal
commands
, • What are the characteristics of a hate crime? -✓✓ No gain is made, not property
is taken, but usually involves harassment or assault.
• When you are testifying on the stand, once you are finished what should you
do? -✓✓ Leave the court room and resume your normal duties
• What are TWO CORE Components of Community Policing? -✓✓ 1. Community
Partnership
2. Problem Solving
• What part of S.A.R.A. model is a police officer a part of? -✓✓ Assessment
• Characteristics of Gang Activity are? -✓✓ 1. Graffiti
2. Drive by shooting
3. Collecting on a street corner, alley, schools etc...
• Under C.R.S. What can a victim request in writing? -✓✓ Release data of the
offender, parole date
• By law who must report Child Abuse? -✓✓ Teachers, School authorities, child
care personnel, physicians, therapists, any school employee i.e. janitor
• Steps in Crime Scene Sketching -✓✓ 1. Observe and Plan
2. Measure and outline the area
3. Plot objects of evidence
