Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic exam ELABORATED EXAM WITH ACCURATE AND VERIFIED ANSWERS (2025)

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Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic ELABORATED
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ANSWERS (2025)

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Keep the Peace
List the Officer's Main Prevent Crime
Goals Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services

Situation
Considerations When Background
Exercising Discretion Consequences
Severity

Explain the ultimate To be able to Protect Life and Property of yourself
Reason for Law and the public.
Enforcement Training

What is the relationship A test question must respond directly to an SPO and
between a SPO and a Test every SPO may be the basis of a test question.
Question?

Desire
Factors Necessary for the
Victim
commission of a crime?
Opportunity




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-Partnership between Police & Community
-Crime prevention
Core Concepts of
-Organizational Change in Agency
Community Policing
-A problem solving approach to the police role that is
proactive

Considerations for off- Behavior
duty Situations Situational Awareness

Purpose of the Bill of Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
Rights

Law Enforcement
Major Components of the
Court
Criminal Justice System
Corrections

Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Goals of Sentencing
Protect Society
Restore the Victim

Lawful - Defined by laws and standards
* Criminal Law
Concepts of Lawful * Agency Rules
actions and Police * Constitutional Law
Legitimacy Police Legitimacy
* How the public views police as authorized to
exercise power.

- When at least one party consents
When can citizens film the
- When officers are carrying out duties in public, as
police?
long as they don't interfere.

Define the connection Individual's interpretation of encounters with police in
between "in group" and terms of their group's societal position rather than the
"out group" police circumstances of the police contact.
legitimacy.




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-Individual
-Interpersonal
Types of Racism
-Institutional
-Structural

- Stereotypes
Components of Bias - Prejudices
- Attitude

Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
Bias-Based Profiling VS
* Religion
Criminal Profiling
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.

List the Two Modes of - Attitude
Thinking - More Deliberate

- Guard against influence
Strategies to Counter - Recognize everyone is Bias
Implicit Biases - Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible

Two-pronged approach to - Person based approach
Criminal Justice - Community based model

Bank Account Concept of Every Encounter is a deposit or withdraw on Police
Procedural Justice Legitimacy.

- Giving others a voice
List the 4 core principles - Neutrality in decision making
of Procedural Justice - Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness

- Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
Ethical Responsibilities - Your Agency
- Your Family
- Yourself

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- Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
External Influences on - Department Regulations
Behavior - Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty

- Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
Internal Influences on
- Greed
Behavior
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations

- Process
- Victimization
Continuum of
- Acts of omission
Compromise
- Acts of commission / Action
- Acts of Commission / Criminal

Policies - are they consistent with agency?
Legal - Is it lawful?
List the PLUS model
Universal - are the policies universal?
Self - Does it align with my beliefs?

- Preserve Knowledge
- Foundation of a formal report
Uses of Field Notes - Aids in further investigation
- Evidence in court
- Documents officer's efforts

- Info on victim, witness and suspect
- Date/ Time
- Location
Types of info in field notes
- Details of incident
- Disposition of evidence, property, and subject
- Report number



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