DCJS Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Father of Modern Policing - Correct Answers ✅Sir Robert Peele Peelian Principles - Correct Answers ✅Ethical requirements police officers must follow to be effective
- principles
- classes of misdemeanors
Public approval Willing cooperation of public Constantly demonstrate impartial service to law Use physical force only when persuasion, advice, and warning have proven insufficient What is the test of police efficiency? - Correct Answers ✅The absence of crime and disorder How many classes of felonies and misdemeanors? - Correct Answers ✅6 classes of felonies
Punishments for felonies and misdemeanors - Correct
Answers ✅Felonies: always prison time and fines; death for
capital murder
Misdemeanors: jail time and/or fines 1 / 3
DCJS Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025)
Criminal vs. Civil Offenses - Correct Answers ✅Criminal:
violation of local ordinances, federal or state statutes; resulting in fines, jail, or prison
Civil: violations of administrative matters, not statutes;
resulting in money owed Purpose of Juvenile Court - Correct Answers ✅Divert juveniles from the criminal justice system, consistent with public safety, for those that can be helped with alternative programs When a juvenile can be taken into custody - Correct Answers ✅Detention order PC for felony Any misdemeanor in LEO presence
Not in LEO presence: shoplifting, A&B, weapon on school
property Run away Child in need of services or supervision Child in need of mental health treatment Exculpatory vs. Inculpatory Statements - Correct Answers
✅Exculpatory: exclude from guilt
Inculpatory: incriminating 2 / 3
DCJS Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Branches of Government - Correct Answers ✅Legislative Executive (law enforcement) Judicial
- elements of criminal justice system - Correct Answers
✅Law enforcement officers Courts Jail Primary responsibility when responding to any event - Correct Answers ✅Check for injuries and render aid Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law - Correct Answers
✅Spirit: enforcing the law as it was intended to operate
Letter: enforcing the law exactly as it is written
Officer discretion - Correct Answers ✅Consider agency general orders, totality of circumstances, severity of crime, will anyone be hurt by my inaction Consider before starting a pursuit - Correct Answers ✅Seriousness of violation, traffic patterns, pedestrian traffic, weather / road conditions
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