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66 Cards in this Set
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_____ is a personal values system |
Respect |
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Officer's should represent their ____ not _____ feelings. |
Department, personal |
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By allowing our contacts to save _____ face we reduce the likelihood of attack. |
Personal |
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Citizens evaluate the peace officer based on ______, accountability, _______, and commitment. |
Appearance, integrity |
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The community expects it's peace officers to be ______ and service oriented. |
Visible |
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______ learning, trust, and _______ ______ are all benefits of earning/ gaining the respect of the community. |
Continuous, community support |
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List the five recommended security locking devices. |
Key in knob, dead bolt lock, mortise lock, rim lock, pad lock |
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Definition of the police - _______ cooperation roles in the prevention of _______ ; this means"effective interaction between ______ and concerned citizen groups. |
Citizen, crime, police |
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Three elements of crime prevention |
Effective law enforcement, public education, public awareness |
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Three operational aspects of crime prevention programs |
Communications, group interactions, public acceptance. |
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Basic steps necessary in assessing a crime problem |
Awareness of a problem, resources for solution, initiation of the program, evaluation after the program |
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Five security hazards found in residential and business structures |
Lighting, landscaping, Windows, doors, sliding glass doors |
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Major roles the police may provide |
Order maintenance, crime prevention, public education, delivery of service, enforcement of laws |
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Influences that could affect the communities attitude toward police. |
Schools, media, family, peers |
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The perspective by the ______, those _______, the _______ ________ _________ and the ________ trainee are important to success in providing quality service. |
Community, involved, law enforcement agency, student/ officer |
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Officer survival is dependant on 5 areas |
Mental preparation, physical preparation, equipment, tactics, shooting skills |
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Three terms a police officer should avoid |
Routine, average, typical |
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10 deadly errors +2 |
Attitude, tombstone courage, not e nough rest, taking a bad position, missing danger signs, failure to watch the hands, relaxing to soon, improper use or not using handcuffs, no search/ poor search, dirty or inoperable weapon, failure to wear vest/ seatbelt, failure to maintain physical/ mental fitness. |
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Methods we use to evaluate alertness. |
Partner planing, familiar with equipment, evaluate tactics, mental attitude. |
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Principles of personal defense |
Alertness, decisiveness, aggressiveness, speed, coolness, ruthlessness, surprise. |
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During a shooting situation, a component officer will _____ |
Respond aggressively |
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Before relaxing, an officer must _______ the threat. |
Stop |
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If wounded, an officer should _______ pain is not an index of the ________ |
Never give up, seriousness of the wound |
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Continue to _______ for your life |
Fight |
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After shooting incident, a competent officer will ________ the scene and remain ________ avoid __________ statements and speak only to ________ |
Secure, calm, spontaneous, supervisor/ investigators |
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On a scene where am officer is wounded, the _______ on the scene is in charge when no ________ is present |
Senior officer, supervisor |
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If you arrive on the scene where an officer is wounded you should immediately _________ check and test wounds to your _________ and constantly _________ the wounded officer. Above all _______ panic, the wounded officer will key in on your _________ and emotions. |
Summon help, level of training, reassure, don't, body language |
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First organized metro police force |
London 1829 |
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Father of modern law enforcement |
Sir Robert peel |
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Two major types of law enforcement in modern America |
Sheriff's and constables |
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First metro police force in the US |
NYC 1844 |
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First 3 federal agencies in the U.S. |
Revenue cutter service, postal agency , treasury enforcement |
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First 5 state police organizations in the U.S. |
Texas rangers, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Washington, West Virginia |
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Basic mission for which the police exist |
Prevent crime and disorder |
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The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependant upon |
Public approval of police actions |
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Police must secure the ________ of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the __________ |
Willing cooperation, respect of the public |
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The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionally to the necessity off the _________ |
Use of physical force |
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Police seek and preserve public favor not by ________ to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating ________ to the law |
Catering, absolute impartial service |
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Police use _________ to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion advice and warning is found to be insufficient. |
Physical force |
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Police at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the _________ are the public and the ________ are the __________: the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of community welfare and existence. |
Police, public, police |
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Police should always direct their action strictly towards their ________ and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary. |
Functions |
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The test of police _________ is the absence of _________ not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it. |
Efficiency, crime and disorder |
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3 components of the criminal justice system of the U.S. |
Police, court, corrections |
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Police goal |
Crime prevention |
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Courts goal |
Render fair judgment |
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Corrections goal |
Rehabilitation |
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Police component is made up of |
Federal, state, parish, municipal |
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Court component is made up of |
Federal, state, municipal |
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Corrections component is made up of |
Bureau of prisons, department of corrections, parish jails and district facilities, city jails and lock ups |
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U.S. _______ court is the lowest level of federal court |
Magistrate |
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Those wishing to appeal might appear in the U.S. _______ court |
District |
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To go higher would mean appealing to the U.S. court of _______ |
Appeals |
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The highest court of all is the U.S. |
Supreme court |
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The criminal justice system of the state has the same 3 components |
Police, court, corrections |
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Police examples |
State police, sheriff's department, municipal police |
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Corrections examples |
Department of corrections, parish jails, city lock ups |
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List the factors which influence/ affect perception and explain each |
Perceiver- attitude, motives. Situation and target - work setting, social. Environment - light, motion, sound |
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_______ is an act of recognizing or noting fact or occurrence through the use of one or more of the senses |
Observation |
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________ id's a interpretation of what you observe |
Perception |
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List the four means by which an officer's observation and perception skills can be improved |
Practice/ training, memory games, develop good techniques, remove obstacles. |
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Risk factors for coronary heart disease |
Age, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, smoking |
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Physical training components |
Flexibility, strength, cardiovascular, body composition |
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Physical fitness definition |
The ability to carry out daily task with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue and with ample energy to engage in leisure pursuits and to meet the above average physical stresses encountered in emergency situations. |
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Flexibility definition |
Range of motion about a joint |
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Critical incident definition |
Any situation that forces you to face your vulnerability send mortality or that potentially overwhelms your inability to cope |
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Commonalities of critical incident |
Sudden, unexpected, sense of control is jeopardized, beliefs and values are disputed, time visual and/ or auditory distortions, confusion as evidenced by inattentive and dazed, may include physical or emotional loss. |