Deck 3: Contemporary Canadian Policing

Question 1

In what year did the Canada Border Services Agency begin arming officers?

A) 2005
B) 2007
C) 2009
D) 2011

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A police service identifies its top three goals for the year: increasing clearance rates,improving police-community relations,and decreasing officer sick days through the implementation of a wellness program.Which of the following does this exemplify?

A) strategic planning
B) learning organization
C) organizational wisdom
D) performance measurement

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which division would provide uniformed staff members of a major urban police service with cultural diversity training?

A) support services
B) human resources
C) operational patrol
D) administrative assistance

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What percentage of RCMP personnel are involved in contract policing in Canada?

A) 15 percent
B) 30 percent
C) 45 percent
D) 60 percent

Question 5

Which of the following is a challenge faced by First Nations police forces?

A) The number of female officers has decreased.
B) The level of education of the officers has decreased.
C) There is a lack of qualified on-reserve police candidates.
D) There are more pre-employment training and upgrading programs than recruits.

Question 6

Which statement describes the realities of working as a private police officer in Canada?

A) They do not collaborate with public police officers.
B) They can arrest and detain people on private property.
C) They have more legal authority than ordinary citizens.
D) They operate primarily as in-house company security officers.

Question 7

What is the ratio of private security officers to police officers working in Canada?

A) 3 to 1
B) 4 to 1
C) 5 to 1
D) 6 to 1

Question 8

Constable Smith recently returned from working as an adviser in Haiti.What international role of the RCMP is this job opportunity an example of?

A) peacekeeping
B) peacebuilding
C) Canadian expert team leader
D) Canadian expert training constable

Question 9

Over the course of one week Constable Smith enforces the Criminal Code,provincial statutes,municipal bylaws,and some federal statutes.What type of police service does Constable Smith work for?

A) para-police
B) hybrid police
C) private police
D) municipal police

Question 10

A police service identifies the community characteristics in their districts: the first has lots of low-income housing and a high population of homeless people; the second is the bar district with a high-density residential population; and the third is a wealthy area.What does this practice exemplify?

A) geographic scan
B) demographic scan
C) environmental scan
D) socioeconomic scan

Question 11

Where in Canada are regional police services primarily found?

A) eastern regions
B) western regions
C) northern regions
D) Aboriginal regions

Question 12

According to best practices research,what is the optimal length of a patrol shift?

A) 8 hours
B) 10 hours
C) 12 hours
D) 14 hours

Question 13

Which of the following provides the framework for the operations of the federal police in Canada?

A) the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
B) the Canadian Constitution
C) the Criminal Code
D) the RCMP Act

Question 14

Which of the following jurisdictions has an Aboriginal police service?

A) Nunavut
B) Saskatchewan
C) Newfoundland
D) Prince Edward Island

Question 15

Transit officers fall into which of the following levels of police services in Canada?

A) municipal police
B) provincial police
C) federal police
D) para-police

Question 16

An individual commits a break-and-enter and is eventually identified by the police as a suspect.Which of the police service's measures of performance does the identification of the suspect contribute to,regardless of whether or not he is ultimately convicted?

A) arrest rate
B) crime rate
C) clearance rate
D) apprehension rate

Question 17

What are the four levels of public policing in Canada?

A) federal,provincial,municipal,First Nations
B) federal,municipal,para-police,First Nations
C) federal,provincial,para-police,First Nations
D) federal,provincial,municipal,para-police services

Question 18

The RCMP is organized into how many divisions?

A) 12
B) 14
C) 15
D) 18

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the RCMP as an organization?

A) non-union
B) transfer policy
C) broad mandate
D) decentralized training

Question 20

Prior to implementing a new crime prevention initiative in their jurisdiction,a police service assesses the needs of the community to ensure the program is being implemented in a neighbourhood that needs it and has the capacity to sustain the program.What is this suitability assessment an example of?

A) implementation of best practices
B) implementation of elite practices
C) implementation of lessons learned
D) implementation of programs learned

Question 21

The RCMP is highly visible in Ontario and Quebec.

Question 22

Define environmental scans and discuss one benefit of their use by police services in a country as diverse as Canada.

Question 23

Municipal police officers constitute two-thirds of the police personnel in the country.

Question 24

Seven Canadian police services account for just over 60 percent of all police officers in Canada.

Question 25

In recent years,the number of First Nations-administered police services has declined.

Question 26

Identify two distinctive organizational characteristics of the RCMP and describe how these organizational characteristics impact public perception of the RCMP.

Question 27

There are currently four provincial police forces in Canada.

Question 28

The Peel Regional Police is the largest regional police force in Canada.

Question 29

Funding for Aboriginal police forces is covered solely by provincial governments.

Question 30

When the RCMP functions as a provincial police force,policing costs are shared between the federal and provincial/territorial governments.

Question 31

The BC Transit Police in the Greater Vancouver region are the only armed transit police in Canada.

Question 32

The Greater Vancouver region was the first urban region in the country to form a dominant police force.