Basics
The people in charge of enforcing the law.
What is a police officer?
New officers must work with an experienced officer on the job before working alone.
What is field training?
Officers use these metal rings to keep suspects restrained.
What are handcuffs?
All police departments require candidates to have a valid one of these to drive a patrol car.
What is a driver's license?
The number you call incase of an emergency.
What is 911?
What is obstacle course.
Officers use this tool to disable people without harming them. It sends an electric shock through their body.
What is a taser?
To become a police officer, you must have at least this level of education.
What is a high school diploma?
Officers drive around in this. They have sirens and flashing lights on them.
What is a cop car?
This place helps police practice how to safely use their weapons.
Officers wear this to protect themselves from firearms.
What is a bulletproof vest?
Officers must learn how to use weapons and guns before they can use them in the field with this kind of training.
What is firearm training?
Officers use this to communicate with each other from far distances away.
What is a police radio?
Officers learn how to handle certain situations by acting them out in these pretend situations.
What are training simulations?
Officers use this spray to disarm suspects. They use the spray toward the eye area.
What is pepper spray?
Many departments give this test, where candidates answer questions while connected to a machine that measures stress.
What is a polygraph/lie detector test?
The place officers keep suspects after they arrest them but before they go to prison.
What is a jail?
What is a police academy?
This tool helps officers find someone's identity by looking at the patterns on their fingers.
What is fingerprinting?
Officers need this to chase down suspects on foot.