Exam Prep Ch7 Patrol And General Duty Policing

CHAPTER 7: PATROL AND GENERAL DUTY POLICING

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What five duties are recognized under common law and are at the core of police work?

a. preventing crime, protecting citizens, maintaining order, investigating crimes, and executing warrants

b. preventing crime, protecting life and property, maintaining order, investigating crimes, and enforcing laws

c. preventing crime, protecting life and property, preserving the peace, apprehending offenders, and enforcing laws

d. preventing crime, protecting citizens, preserving the peace, apprehending offenders, and executing warrants

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Work KEY: Bloom’s Remember

2. Which of the following are often the “agency of first and last resort”?

a. dispatchers

b. police officers

c. EMS

d. fire fighters

PTS: 1 REF: The Street as “the Office” KEY: Bloom’s Remember

3. While on shift, a police officer stops an individual and conducts a street check. What type of police activity is this?

a. proactive policing

b. preventive policing

c. respondent policing

d. reactive policing

PTS: 1 REF: The Street as “the Office” KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

4. Which of the following is defined as “the centralized, computer-based information system used by police services”?

a. Canadian Police Intelligence Centre

b. Canadian Police Information Centre

c. Canadian Police Commission Centre

d. Canadian Police Communication Centre

PTS: 1 REF: The Street as “the Office” KEY: Bloom’s Remember

5. Imagine you call 9-1-1 to report that you witnessed an assault occur on the corner of Main Street and 2nd Avenue at 9 pm. What is the name of the system used by communications personnel to record the details of this call for service?

a. Canadian Police Intelligence Centre

b. Canadian Police Communication Centre

c. computer-aided dispatch system

d. call-taker automation system

PTS: 1 REF: Strategies for Managing Calls for Service KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

6. An Ontario police agency decides to analyze calls for service and their responses to these calls as part of their yearly performance monitoring report. Which system will provide the service with the data to conduct this analysis?

a. computer-aided dispatch system

b. Canadian Police Intelligence Centre

c. Canadian Police Information Centre

d. computer-assisted routing system

PTS: 1 REF: Strategies for Managing Calls for Service KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

7. What is the name of the system that police dispatchers use to determine key facts about a call?

a. question-system

b. fact-finding-system

c. dispatcher-system

d. W system

PTS: 1 REF: Dispatchers and Communications Officers: The Gatekeepers KEY: Bloom’s Remember

8. What does research show to be the optimal shift length for police officers in terms of efficiency and health and wellness?

a! 8 hours

b! 9 hours

c! 10 hours

d! 11 hours

PTS: 1 REF: The Deployment of Patrol Units KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

9. Which of the following is defined as “the amount of time that patrol officers have that is not committed to responding to calls for service”?

a. passive patrol time

b. practical patrol time

c. unassigned patrol time

d. unallocated patrol time

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Unit Utilization KEY: Bloom’s Remember

10. Mrs. Maple calls 9-1-1 because she has just witnessed a hit and run incident in front of her home. Constable Roberts responds to the call for service and spends several hours attending the scene and taking a statement from Mrs. Maple, the victim, and other witnesses. What is the term used to describe the time Constable Roberts spent responding to the call?

a. allocated patrol time

b. proallocated patrol time

c. reallocated patrol time

d. response patrol time

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Unit Utilization KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

11. What does evidence suggest regarding police officers who spend more than half their time responding to calls for service?

a. they are generally happy in their role

b. they may be more effective police officers

c. they tend not to stay in policing

d. they may experience higher levels of stress

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Unit Utilization KEY: Bloom’s Remember

12. Police services strive to achieve certain response times for different priority calls. What is the ideal response time for Priority 1 calls?

a. six minutes

b. five minutes

c. eight minutes

d. seven minutes

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Car Response Times KEY: Bloom’s Remember

13. An on-duty police officer notices what appears to be a drug transaction take place on a street corner. The two young men involved are visible minorities and the police officer decides to drive on as he does not want an encounter with the individuals to be perceived as racial profiling. What is the acronym used to describe the police officer’s actions?

a. LIMO

b. SIGO

c. FIDO

d. MITO

PTS: 1 REF: Street Work: Patrol Officer Discretion and Decision Making KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

14. When interacting with persons with mental illness (PwMI), Constable Dhillon knows that it is important to employ de-escalation skills including effective communication and active listening. What are these skills known as?

a. emotional skills of police work

b. soft skills of police work

c. de-escalation skills of police work

d. interpersonal skills of police work

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Officer Competencies KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

15. Which of the following is defined as “how patrol officers depict or categorize the people and situations they encounter”?

a. typifications

b. differentiations

c. exemplifications

d. characterizations

PTS: 1 REF: Police Perceptions of Persons and Events KEY: Bloom’s Remember

16. An officer is dispatched to an in-progress vandalism call. A teenager is detained, and through on-site communication the officer, the homeowner, and the teenager agree that rather than face charges, the teenager will help paint the garage he vandalized. What practice does this exemplify?

a. coercion

b. mediation

c. arbitration

d. restorative justice

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Officer Use of Mediation and Conflict Resolution KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

17. What are the four key principles of procedural justice policing?

a. responsibility, practicality, neutrality, truth

b. restoration, partiality, neutrality, tradition

c. respect, participation, neutrality, trust

d. results, procedure, neutrality, transformation

PTS: 1 REF: Procedural Justice Policing KEY: Bloom’s Remember

18. Which of the following is defined as “the requirement that police officers make decisions on the basis of reasonable suspicion and probable grounds rather than stereotypes”?

a. uniform policing

b. bias-free policing

c. impartial policing

d. prejudice-free policing

PTS: 1 REF: Racial Profiling and Biased Policing KEY: Bloom’s Remember

19. While being processed by airport security a man is singled out for additional screening by Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP officers; the man believes this occurs because he is Muslim. If he is correct, what does this exemplify?

a. racial profiling

b. ethnic profiling

c. cultural profiling

d. religious profiling

PTS: 1 REF: Racial Profiling and Biased Policing KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

20. In which of the following locations is high-visibility/high-consequence policing most likely to occur?

a. Vancouver, British Columbia (population: 675,218)

b. Toronto, Ontario (population: 2.93 million)

c. Red Deer, Alberta (population: 103,588)

d. Old Crow, Yukon Territory (population: 221)

PTS: 1 REF: Policing in Rural and Northern Communities KEY: Bloom’s Remember

TRUE/FALSE

1. Attending court is not part of a patrol officer’s role.

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Work KEY: Bloom’s Remember

2. Law enforcement activities generally make up less than one-third of a patrol officer’s time.

PTS: 1 REF: Patrol Work KEY: Bloom’s Remember

3. Extra-large communities tend to have a much higher percentage of total calls for service than a small Indigenous community.

PTS: 1 REF: Community Variability in Calls for Service KEY: Bloom’s Remember

4. In most jurisdictions, demands for police service are spread equally throughout the week.

PTS: 1 REF: The Deployment of Patrol Units KEY: Bloom’s Remember

5. CID is an acronym used to describe how police officers sometimes deliberately avoid involving themselves in problem incidents that may lead to a citizen complaint.

PTS: 1 REF: Street Work: Patrol Officer Discretion and Decision Making KEY: Bloom’s Remember

6. Implicit bias occurs when attitudes or stereotypes affect one’s understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious way.

PTS: 1 REF: Street Work: Patrol Officer Discretion and Decision Making KEY: Bloom’s Remember

7. Procedural justice policing is composed of the principles of restoration, participation, neutrality, and trust.

PTS: 1 REF: Procedural Justice Policing KEY: Bloom’s Remember

8. Pretext policing occurs when the police stop and search someone for a minor reason before letting them carry on their way.

PTS: 1 REF: The Impact of Racial Profiling KEY: Bloom’s Remember

9. Street checks are also known as carding.

PTS: 1 REF: Police Street Checks and Carding: A Flashpoint Between the Police and Communities of Diversity KEY: Bloom’s Remember

10. In a study of street checks in Halifax, results showed that Black persons were more likely to be stopped than White persons.

PTS: 1 REF: The Controversy over Street Checks and Carding KEY: Bloom’s Remember

SHORT ANSWER

1. Define both discretion and selective enforcement. Provide a hypothetical example of selective enforcement.

PTS: 1 REF: Street Work: Patrol Officer Discretion and Decision Making KEY: Bloom’s Remember and Higher Order

2. What are “typifications” and “recipes for action”? Identify and discuss one potential negative consequence of police officers relying on typifications and recipes for action.

PTS: 1 REF: Police Perceptions of Persons and Events KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order

3. Describe how over-policing and pretext policing are associated with racial profiling.

PTS: 1 REF: Over-Policing and Pretext Policing KEY: Bloom’s Remember

4. Imagine you are a police officer in a remote northern Canadian community. Define high-visibility/high-consequence policing. List and describe two challenges that you imagine you might experience working as a police officer in this context.

PTS: 1 REF: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Police KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order and Remember

5. Define racial profiling and describe why it is important to consider in a country such as Canada, where diversity continues to increase.

PTS: 1 REF: Racial Profiling and Biased Policing KEY: Bloom’s Higher Order and Remember