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Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 36mins

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1.

= military bodies who serve as guardians of peace in ancient Rome in which the idea of policing said to have originated

(a)  

2.

= a French term which claimed to be the origin of the term Police Officer

(a)  

3.

A system of policing emerged during the Anglo-Saxon period whereby all male residents were required to guard the town (tun) to preserve peace and protect the lives and properties of the people

(a)  

4.

Tun means (a)  

5.

Tun Policing System


About 700 AD, the people living in England in small rural towns used the (a)   System.

6.

Tun Policing System


Ten families in a town (tun) equaled a tithing. Each tithing elected a leader who was known as the (a)  

7.

Tun Policing System


Since 10 tithings amounted to 100, the leader of the 100 families was named the ______. Both the tithingman and ______ were elected officials. They possessed judicial power as well as police authority.

(a)  

8.

A village law started in Britain which provided methods of apprehending a criminal by an act of the complainant to shout to call all male residents to assemble and arrest the suspect

(a)  

9.

A judicial practice where in the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting him to an unpleasant, usually dangerous, experience. (In present terminologies, it would mean an employment of a “3rd degree.”) The word “ordeal” was derived from the Medieval Latin word “Dei Indicum” which means “a miraculous decision.”

(a)  

10.

The word “ordeal” was derived from the Medieval Latin word “ (a)   ”

11.

The word “ordeal” was derived from the Medieval Latin word “Dei Indicum” which means" (a)   .”

12.

What are the under of Anglo-Saxon Period of Policing System (Ancient England)


1-3

(a)  

13.

This system of policing existed during the time of Norman William The Conqueror (King of France). When he invaded and conquered England, a military regime of conquers and dictators began and changed the concept of crime being committed against the state.

(a)  

14.

Norman William The Conqueror (King of (a)   ).

15.

(a)   was a policing system during the Norman Period when England was divided into fifty-five (55) military areas, each headed by a ruler called the Rieve (head-man or lieutenant of the army). The fifty-five (55) military divisions in England are called shires. The shire-rieve had absolute powers that no one could questions his or her actions.

16.

Shire-Rieve was a policing system during the Norman Period when England was divided into fifty-five (55) military areas, each headed by a ruler called the _______ (head-man or lieutenant of the army). The fifty-five (55) military divisions in England are called ______. The shire-rieve had absolute powers that no one could questions his or her actions.

(a)  

17.

(head-man or lieutenant of the army).

(a)  

18.

The fifty-five (55) military divisions in England are called (a)   .

19.

Two “________” or “_______” were appointed to each village to aid the Rieve in his duties. It became the source of the word Constable.

(a)  

20.

The term “Shire-Rieve” is said to be the origin of the word “ (a)   .”

21.

A judge selected to hear cases which were formerly being judged by the Shire-Rieve and tasked to travel through and hear criminal cases. This was the first instance of the division of the police and judicial powers

(a)  

22.

An act that was enacted during this period with the following features:


Offenses were classified as against the king and individual.


Policeman becomes public servant.


The police and the citizens have the broad power to arrest. It introduced the system called “citizen’s arrest.”


Grand Jury was created to inquire on the facts of the law. A system which made inquisition onto the facts of a crime and eliminate the “Anglo-Saxon Trial or “Trial by Ordeal System

(a)  

23.

Under of Norman Period of Policing System


Legis Henrici


The police and the citizens have the broad power to arrest. It introduced the system called “ (a)   .”

24.

A system of policing whereby a group of ten neighboring male residents over twelve years of age were required to guard the town to preserve peace and protect the lives and properties of the people

(a)  

25.

What are the under of Norman Period of Policing System

1-4

(a)  

26.

It is called by this name because the laws governing policing came out of the capital of England, which at the time was Westminster

(a)  

27.

3. Westminster Period of Policing System


Guards were appointed and the duties of the constables at night ( (a)   ) and in daytime () were defined

28.

3. Westminster Period of Policing System


(a)   , a collection of regulations aimed at keeping the peace.

29.

3. Westminster Period of Policing System


(a)  

The law that marks the beginning of the curfew hours, which demanded the closing of the gates of London during sundown.

30.

3. Westminster Period of Policing System


(a)   (About 1361)

Three or four men who were learned in the law of the land were given authority to pursue, arrest, chastise and imprisonment violators of law. They handled felonies, misdemeanors and infractions of city or village ordinances. This was later abolished about 75 years after

31.

3. Westminster Period of Policing System


(a)   (1487)

A special court designed to try offenders against the state. The room set-up is formed in a shape of a star and judges were given great powers such as the power to force testimony from a defendant leading to a great abuse of power or brutality on the part of the judges

32.

Westminster Period of Policing System

1-4

(a)  

33.

A proclamation issued by King Richard of England sometime in 1195 that required the appointment of knights to keep the King’s peace by standing as guards on bridges and gates while checking the people entering and leaving the cities and towns

(a)  

34.

4. Keepers of the Peace

A proclamation issued by King (a)   of England sometime in 1195 that required the appointment of knights to keep the King’s peace by standing as guards on bridges and gates while checking the people entering and leaving the cities and towns

35.

(a)   (1663)

He passed an act which established or promoted the employment of watchmen or bellmen to be on duty from sunset to sunrise.

36.

A law promulgated by King John of England upon the demand of the Knights of the Round Table forcing the King to sign the same with the following features:


No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, banished or exiled except by legal judgment of his peers.


No person shall be tried for murder unless there is proof of the body of the victim

(a)