Deck 6: Patrol and General Duty Policing

Question 1

A two-car patrol unit sees two men waiting on the street in front of a bank wearing hooded sweatshirts and carrying backpacks.The officers decide to approach the men,as the officers think the men are about to rob the bank.Which police perception does this exemplify?

A) sixth sense
B) officer discretion
C) recipes for action
D) symbolic assailants

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Police dispatch receives two calls from citizens at a time when the number of calls to dispatch outnumbers available patrol units.One reports an in-progress act of vandalism and the other reports a man waving a knife at a bus station.Dispatch immediately sends officers to the latter call.What is this practice called?

A) call slicing
B) call division
C) call stacking
D) call separating

Answer 2

C

Question 3

A police officer pulls over a vehicle travelling at 80 km/h in a posted 50 km/h zone.How will the police officer obtain information about the driver's driving record?

A) Canadian Police Intelligence Centre
B) Canadian Police Information Centre
C) Canadian Police Commission Centre
D) Canadian Police Communication Centre

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is defined as "the requirement that police officers make decisions on the basis of reasonable suspicion and probable grounds rather than stereotypes"?

A) uniform policing
B) bias-free policing
C) impartial policing
D) prejudice-free policing

Question 5

In which case did the Ontario Court of Appeal define racial profiling as "the targeting of individual members of a particular racial group,on the basis of the supposed criminal propensity of the entire group"?

A) R.v.Greer
B) R.v.Green
C) R.v.Booth
D) R.v.Brown

Question 6

An Ontario police agency decides to analyze calls for service and their responses to these calls as part of their yearly Performance Monitoring Report.Which system will provide the service with the data to conduct this analysis?

A) Computer-Aided Dispatch System
B) Canadian Police Intelligence Centre
C) Canadian Police Information Centre
D) Computer-Assisted Routing System

Question 7

Which statement reflects Canadian research findings about the difference between one- and two-officer patrol units?

A) Officers in two-officer units are less likely to be killed.
B) Officers in two-officer units are more likely to generate intelligence information.
C) Officers in one-officer units have shorter response times to Priority 1 calls.
D) Officers in one-officer units are more likely to investigate suspicious circumstances.

Question 8

Which of the following is defined as "how patrol officers depict or categorize the people and situations they encounter"?

A) typifications
B) differentiations
C) exemplifications
D) characterizations

Question 9

Who utilizes the "W system" while completing their day-to-day tasks working for a police service?

A) dispatchers
B) police officers
C) police management
D) victim services personnel

Question 10

While being processed by airport security a man is singled out for additional screening by Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP officers; the man believes this occurs because he is Muslim.If he is correct,what does this exemplify?

A) racial profiling
B) ethnic profiling
C) cultural profiling
D) religious profiling

Question 11

Which of the following is defined as "the amount of time that patrol officers have that is not committed to responding to calls for service"?

A) passive patrol time
B) practical patrol time
C) unassigned patrol time
D) unallocated patrol time

Question 12

Three police officers in a small Canadian town have worked 37 days straight,are known by first name by each of the 343 community residents,and make daily decisions impacting their own well-being and the well-being of their families and the community residents.What type of policing does this exemplify?

A) high-visibility/high-outcome
B) high-prominence/high-outcome
C) high-visibility/high-consequence
D) high-prominence/high-consequence

Question 13

An Aboriginal teenager is pulled over by officers claiming the teen rolled through a stop sign rather than coming to a complete stop.The officers complete a full vehicle search without due cause other than the belief that Aboriginal teens are responsible for drug trafficking in the community and,therefore,there may be drugs in the car.What is the term for this police practice?

A) pretext policing
B) minority policing
C) excuse-based policing
D) grounds-based policing

Question 14

Which of the following is defined as "a strategy to discard or divert calls for service to match available police resources"?

A) call shedding
B) call dropping
C) call discarding
D) call prioritizing

Question 15

Police services strive to achieve certain response times for different priority calls; what is the ideal response time for Priority 1 calls?

A) six minutes
B) five minutes
C) eight minutes
D) seven minutes

Question 16

Which of the following is defined as "discretionary enforcement due to the inability of police officers to enforce all of the laws at all times"?

A) flexible enforcement
B) rational enforcement
C) selective enforcement
D) conditional enforcement

Question 17

An officer is dispatched to an in-progress vandalism call.A teenager is detained,and through on-site communication the officer,the homeowner,and the teenager agree that rather than face charges,the teenager will help paint the garage he vandalized.What practice does this exemplify?

A) coercion
B) mediation
C) arbitration
D) restorative justice

Question 18

Which of the following is defined as "categorizing calls for service based on the response required"?

A) divergent police response
B) diagnostic police response
C) differential police response
D) discretionary police response

Question 19

What five duties are recognized under common law and are at the core of police work?

A) preventing crime,protecting citizens,maintaining order,investigating crimes,and executing warrants
B) preventing crime,protecting life and property,maintaining order,investigating crimes,and enforcing laws
C) preventing crime,protecting life and property,preserving the peace,apprehending offenders,and enforcing laws
D) preventing crime,protecting citizens,preserving the peace,apprehending offenders,and executing warrants

Question 20

Which of the following is defined as "the centralized,computer-based information system used by police services"?

A) Canadian Police Intelligence Centre
B) Canadian Police Information Centre
C) Canadian Police Commission Centre
D) Canadian Police Communication Centre

Question 21

As the level of seriousness of a call to the police increases,the amount of police discretion decreases.

Question 22

Responding to high-priority crime calls represents only about 20 percent of patrol officers' duties.

Question 23

Compare and contrast allocated and unallocated patrol time.

Question 24

Identify and describe the task (or policing)environment,providing two examples of how this environment may impact individual officer behaviour.

Question 25

FIDO is an acronym used to describe how police officers sometimes deliberately avoid involving themselves in problem incidents that may lead to a citizen complaint.

Question 26

In many jurisdictions,25 to 30 percent of calls for service involve a mental health component.

Question 27

The RCMP has never deployed two-officer patrol units.

Question 28

Define racial profiling,and describe why it is important to consider in a country such as Canada,where diversity continues to increase.

Question 29

Define high-visibility/high-consequence policing and describe two negative consequences of it for police officers.

Question 30

Define differential police response (DPR).Are there any consequences of using DPR strategies for community policing initiatives?

Question 31

In 2009 in Toronto,the average response time for Priority 1 calls was just over 8 minutes.

Question 32

What are "typifications" and "recipes for action"? Identify and discuss one potential negative consequence of police officers relying on typifications and recipes for action.

Question 33

Officers in smaller police services are typically responsible for a smaller range of duties than officers in larger police services.

Question 34

Describe how overpolicing and pretext policing are associated with racial profiling.

Question 35

The best-practice standard is for patrol officers to have 30 percent of their time unallocated so that they can engage in proactive and problem-solving activities.

Question 36

Research studies have found that eight-hour shifts are optimal for maintaining work/life balance for officers.

Question 37

Patrol officers across Canada typically work ten- or twelve-hour shifts.

Question 38

Define call shedding and call stacking,and describe how they relate to one another.