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BCO POST UTAH 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What are the various approaches inmates will use to compromise
staff? (14 possible) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
1. Support system/ego boosting
2. Reliance on inmate to make job easier
3. Empathy/Sympathy
4. Plea for help
5. The we/they syndrome
6. Offers of protection
7. Allusions of sex
8. Female-seduction/urges
9. Male- offers of sex on the outside (homo.)
10. Touching/rumors
11. Trapping by coaxing the officer to do something against policy
12. Intimidating
13. Coaxing officers into feeling comfortable/trustworthy
14. Coaxing the officer to keep secrets
What are some approaches officers can use to help achieve the desired
goals when helping inmates? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
-Separate from the audience
-Empathy
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-5 Step Hard Style
1- ASK instead of COMMAND
2- Explain (set the context)
3- Present Options
4- Confirm
5- Action
Define the Survival Mind Set: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ "I will
win!"
What are 5 components of Officer Survival? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ 1. Mental conditioning
2. Tactical conditioning
3. Physical conditioning
4. Equipment and maintenance
5. Control the environment
What is Mental Conditioning in reference to an Officers Survival? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Where you prepare mentally for the
dangerous encounter, and know the effects of fear, pain, and death on
the officers performance.
What is Tactical Conditioning in reference to an Officers Survival? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Where you learn the latest survival
tactics, practice the tactics continually, and never stop learning.
BCO POST UTAH 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What are the various approaches inmates will use to compromise
staff? (14 possible) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
1. Support system/ego boosting
2. Reliance on inmate to make job easier
3. Empathy/Sympathy
4. Plea for help
5. The we/they syndrome
6. Offers of protection
7. Allusions of sex
8. Female-seduction/urges
9. Male- offers of sex on the outside (homo.)
10. Touching/rumors
11. Trapping by coaxing the officer to do something against policy
12. Intimidating
13. Coaxing officers into feeling comfortable/trustworthy
14. Coaxing the officer to keep secrets
What are some approaches officers can use to help achieve the desired
goals when helping inmates? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
-Separate from the audience
-Empathy
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-5 Step Hard Style
1- ASK instead of COMMAND
2- Explain (set the context)
3- Present Options
4- Confirm
5- Action
Define the Survival Mind Set: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ "I will
win!"
What are 5 components of Officer Survival? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔ 1. Mental conditioning
2. Tactical conditioning
3. Physical conditioning
4. Equipment and maintenance
5. Control the environment
What is Mental Conditioning in reference to an Officers Survival? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Where you prepare mentally for the
dangerous encounter, and know the effects of fear, pain, and death on
the officers performance.
What is Tactical Conditioning in reference to an Officers Survival? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ Where you learn the latest survival
tactics, practice the tactics continually, and never stop learning.
