FSC100 MIDTERM SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ What does police mean
Answer: Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
◉ Why do police forces exist in the first place?
Answer: As a preventative role and for safety
◉ Metropolitan police
Answer: Often considered the template for the North American
police that followed the European trend
◉ Sir Robert Peel
Answer: a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary
for the home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he
brought out the Metropolitan Police act.
◉ Why did we have police forces?
Answer: The public didnt want to do it themselves
◉ Where was the first police force in North America
,Answer: Toronto in the 19th century
◉ How did Policing begin in North America
Answer: As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid
"policeman" position with formal training
◉ First signs of Canadian legal tradition
Answer: When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system
modeled after France.
◉ Detective
Answer: Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed
the crime and why. They established themselves within police
agencies working less individually and more cooperatively to close
cases
◉ Constables
Answer: Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as
needed. Not until a year later that five were hired and paid.
◉ North West Mounted Police
Answer: The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to
police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.
, ◉ What are municipalities responsible for?
Answer: majority of the policing services.
◉ OPP
Answer: One of the largest services in North America, provide rural
policing and support for all police agencies as required
◉ Policing Standards Manual
Answer: contains guidelines to help police services understand the
PSA
◉ Police Services Act
Answer: regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police
services regulation
◉ Atavism
Answer: criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological
deviance
◉ Positivism
Answer: crime was the product of social causes
◉ Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now?
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ What does police mean
Answer: Describe the body enforcing the law and maintaining order
◉ Why do police forces exist in the first place?
Answer: As a preventative role and for safety
◉ Metropolitan police
Answer: Often considered the template for the North American
police that followed the European trend
◉ Sir Robert Peel
Answer: a member of parliament, and became the post of secretary
for the home department. after seeing the rising crime statistics, he
brought out the Metropolitan Police act.
◉ Why did we have police forces?
Answer: The public didnt want to do it themselves
◉ Where was the first police force in North America
,Answer: Toronto in the 19th century
◉ How did Policing begin in North America
Answer: As a volunteer organization but developed into a paid
"policeman" position with formal training
◉ First signs of Canadian legal tradition
Answer: When Quebec city in 1651 adopted a watchman system
modeled after France.
◉ Detective
Answer: Specialists who sole job was to determine who committed
the crime and why. They established themselves within police
agencies working less individually and more cooperatively to close
cases
◉ Constables
Answer: Appointed to lead a handful of volunteers. Simply hired as
needed. Not until a year later that five were hired and paid.
◉ North West Mounted Police
Answer: The forerunner of the RCMP. Created after confederation to
police the frontier territories of the Canadian west.
, ◉ What are municipalities responsible for?
Answer: majority of the policing services.
◉ OPP
Answer: One of the largest services in North America, provide rural
policing and support for all police agencies as required
◉ Policing Standards Manual
Answer: contains guidelines to help police services understand the
PSA
◉ Police Services Act
Answer: regulations such as adequacy and effectiveness of police
services regulation
◉ Atavism
Answer: criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological
deviance
◉ Positivism
Answer: crime was the product of social causes
◉ Why is atavism and positivism contradictory now?
