PC 832 arrest Exam Questions Complete
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Leadership - Answers -✔✔ is the practice of influencing people, while using ethical
values and goals, to produce an intended change.
Formal - Answers -✔✔ "Authority" from above, top-down, legal, maintain control,
limited,
imposed, status quo, avoidance, everyone to whom conferred.
Informal - Answers -✔✔ "Power" all directions, *reciprocal flow, * all directions, trust,
influence change, unlimited, self-discipline, change, yes ( calculated), leaders.
Compliance - Answers -✔✔ Acceptance of a person's authority. It yields to an outward
change in behavior, without an accompanying alteration of attitude.
Commitment - Answers -✔✔ An outward manifestation of an internal agreement/
willingness to embrace leadership values and agency goals.
Life Balance - Answers -✔✔ = Work/ Personal Development, Family Community, and
being a Peace Officer.
Peer Leadership - Answers -✔✔ Peer behavior are strong influence on peer officers. It
is incumbent on every peace officer to recognize that he or she has the opportunity to
influence peers by modeling positive behaviors, taking charge, and sharing information
if and when appropriate.
Modeling - Answers -✔✔ Maintaining ethical standers, professional appearance, (first
impressions) pursuing self development.
Intervening - Answers -✔✔ As a leader, a peace officer must have the courage to
address unacceptable or unethical behavior and is obligated to intervene if such action
is exhibited by another officer.
Community policing - Answers -✔✔ When peace officers and community members
share a common sense of values, communicate openly and regularly. Trust is the
critical link in the community/policing partnership.
Follower - Answers -✔✔ Courage to: assume responsibility, serve with loyalty,
challenge, participate in transformation, and know when LEAVE!
,Public Trust - Answers -✔✔ is the expectation that the authority and power entrusted to
a peace officer will not abuse. The public must be confident that peace officers will
perform their duties in respect of that trust.
Factors Impacting Public Trust - Answers -✔✔ 1. Previous experience with law
enforcement.
2. develop or enhance police/community partnerships.
3. General public apathy and prevailing attitudes.
4. Impact of the family structure.
5. Social and/or economic conditions.
6. Situations that promote high levels of fear or a sense of collective victimization.
7. Media treatment of law enforcement events.
"The Golden Rule" = Dignity - Answers -✔✔ "Do unto others as you would have others
do unto you"
The Golden rule establishes an essential spirit of ethical conduct.
The key to The Golden Rule frames your considered action with a responsibility for the
well-being of others.
Ethical Standards - Answers -✔✔ The criteria set for professional conduct. Statements
of the specific objectives for which peace officers should strive are found in the Code of
Conduct.
Career Survival - Answers -✔✔ Despite the inherent dangers of the job, many officers
who end their careers prematurely do so as result of making poor ethical decisions.
(e.g., *lying, sex related offense.)
Community Expectations - Answers -✔✔ The community expects that police officers
will serve the public interest and conduct themselves in an ethical manner. (keep the
community safe and secure, demonstrate professional behavior, solve problems.)
Agency Expectations - Answers -✔✔ the police officer's agency expects: conformance
with the law.
Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace
Officers.
Officer's Peer Expectation - Answers -✔✔ Within the employing agency, an officer's
peer expect:
technical competence,support, integrity,
dependability, honesty, and friendship.
Expectation of Peace Officers - Answers -✔✔ To effectively carry out their assigned
duties and fulfill community expectations, peace officers have expectations, including:
appropriate training, adequate resources, agency support, fair and ethical treatment,
respect and cooperation of the public.
, Law Enforcement Code of Ethics - Answers -✔✔ The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics
was adopted in 1956 by the National Conference of Police association of Chiefs of
Police.
Adherence - Answers -✔✔ any code is just words until translated into action. Officers
give the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics life and meaning by following it in their
everyday conduct. They also adhere to it as matter of personal integrity.
Key Elements - Answers -✔✔ POST requires that all peace officers abide by the Law
Enforcement Code of Ethics. Officers should become thoroughly familiar with the code
and understand what they promise to uphold.
Code of Conduct - Answers -✔✔ California has supplemented the law Enforcement
Code of ethics with a Code of Professional Conduct and Responsibilities for Peace
Officers. The Code of Conduct is comprised of canons and ethical standards. It was
developed in 1979.
Canons - Answers -✔✔ General statements of the standards of professional conduct
expected of peace officers.
Intervention - Answers -✔✔ is the act of attempting to prevent or attempting to stop the
inappropriate or unlawful behavior of another.
Types of Interventions: Advance, Immediate, Delayed - Answers -✔✔ Advance: means
taking action before an inappropriate action is committed.(showing up at the scene)
Immediate: Verbally or physically (stepping in/ or restraining)
Delayed: Discussion/ Referral/ Reporting.
Ethical decision making and leadership - Answers -✔✔ Peace officers who practice the
competencies of ethical leadership with the requisite skills of problem-solving, will be
better equipped to arrive at appropriate solutions in decision making.
Stereotype - Answers -✔✔ is a preconceived or over-simplified generalization involving
negative or positive beliefs about another group.
Prejudice - Answers -✔✔ is a prejudgment or point of view about a person or group of
individuals that is usually formed before the facts are known.
Benefits of recognizing and respecting diversity - Answers -✔✔ Understanding cultural
influences of individuals can help peace officers recognize and influence patterns of
behavior and build more effective relationships within the community and within law
enforcement itself.
