Police Basics & Procedures
The routine duty of officers walking or driving through assigned areas.
What is patrol?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This type of crime involves unlawful killing with malice.
What is murder?
This handheld or mounted device is used to measure a vehicle's speed using radio waves.
What is a radar?
This common abbreviation stands for driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
What is a DUI or a DWI?
The legal standard officers need to make an arrest.
What is probable cause?
The examination of a person or property and the taking of items that may be evidence of a crime.
What is Search and Seizure?
A person who gives secret information to law enforcement about planned criminal activity.
What is an informant?
This physical item restricts a suspect's freedom of movement.
What are handcuffs?
This device measures the concentration of alcohol in a person's breath sample.
What is a breathalyzer?
The person or persons that police officers should notify prior to initiating a traffic stop.
Who is dispatch?
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures of their property.
What is the Fourth Ammendment?
Physically attacking or threatening to harm someone.
What is assault?
This device automatically reads license plates on vehicles to help spot stolen cars.
What is a license plate reader?
What document issued during a traffic stop provides a formal written promise or notice to appear in court for a traffic violation?
A traffic citation or ticket?
This establishes definite lines of authority and channels of communication within an agency.
What is a chain of command?
The Eighth Amendment bans "cruel and unusual punishments" as well as these financial requirements, which must not be excessive.
What is bail?
Deliberately setting fire to property.
What is arson?
This automated FBI fingerprint database was replaced in 2014 by the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system.
What is AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System)?
This specific PIT maneuver tactic—used by officers to force a fleeing car to turn sideways and stop—stands for this three-word phrase.
What is Precision Immobilization Technique (or Pursuit Immobilization Technique)?
When an officer is dispatched to a call where a crime is no longer in progress and the suspect has fled, it is categorized as this type of report.
What is a cold report?
In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright ruled that states must provide this type of legal professional to defendants who cannot afford one.
What is a public defender? (Also lawyer or attorney)
Breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another.
What is burglary?
Developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s to safely end high-speed vehicular pursuits by using hollow spikes instead of solid steel blades, what pioneering system became the benchmark for modern law enforcement tire deflation devices?
What is the Stinger Spike System?
This classification of hit-and-run traffic accidents elevates the crime from a misdemeanor to a severe felony in almost all jurisdictions.
What is an accident involving injury or death?