Police Role

Law enforcement is a service-oriented profession. Knowing this statement, who does the officer serve. Pick the best answer

• The office in which s/he is employed

• The public as they are the community

• The sheriff or chief as they are in charge

• The officer as he is the job.

While an officer has the authority to arrest someone, this authority only comes into play when?

• A supervisor requests

• You think the individual will re-offend

• There is legal justification.

• Your authority allows it

As a law enforcement officer, you are also responsible for protecting and serving, this means?

• Changing a flat tire on a car

• Helping a homeless person seek food and shelter

• Getting a cow into a field or a pig into a pen

• All these are possibly part of my job

As a law enforcement officer, you are also responsible for protecting the public. This includes:

• Rehabilitating the public

• Maintaining order

• Making people pay for their crimes

• Knowing who is good and bad.

Can a complainant be a witness?

• No. in a report only one person can be a complainant.

• No. A witness sees the crime and is not the one who is reporting the crime.

• Yes. A complainant is always going to be the witness to the crime

• Yes. In some cases the one reporting the crime is the witness.

A victim is a person or entity that suffers an injury as a result of a crime. Can an entity be a victim?

• No. A victim is a person who has been injured in some way

• Yes. The State of Florida can be a victim and a witness.

• Yes. An entity can be injured and can be a victim

• No. A person has to be the victim or there is no crime.

What is an Detainee?

• Someone who has been arrested and placed in your back seat.

• Someone who is not under arrest and not free to leave.

• Someone who was arrested with a court date.

• Someone who was not arrested but needs pressing information.

A defendant is a person formally accused of committing a crime or a civil wrong in a court proceeding. • An offender is a person convicted of a crime in a court of law.

• A defendant is someone who is accused of a crime in court and an offender is already found guilty

• A defendant is someone who is accused of a crime by a victim and an offender is awaiting probation

• An offender is someone who has a court appearance and a defendant is held for arrest

• An offender is on probation and a defendant is on parole.

Does an organization need a lateral chain of command?

• Yes, because the chief/sheriff can not be everywhere for every decision, that is why we have the delegation of authority

• Yes because everyone needs to know how to make a command decision.

• No because the upper staff do not think you know what you are doing yet.

• No because it complicates things during high speed chases.

What best fits the idea of Procedural justice

• If someone broke the law, they get what is coming to them.

• Bending the rules but not the laws when someone is guilty of a crime.

• Justice is blind and we should not fear the courts and allow the system to work.

• Transparency