RBC 2 Study Guide Latest Update 2024-2025

RBC 2 Study Guide Latest Update 2024-2025 Exam 470 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+

"describe why complete documentation of the use of force is critical to the peace officer

and the peace officer's agency, to include:

• justification for using force

- relevant factors and detail" - CORRECT ANSWER: Officers must provide the

justification for the type and force used in a written report or in a statement for a post incident investigator. Officers should include that they were acting in an official capacity, wearing an approved uniform that clearly identifies them as a peace officer, mode of travel and whether the vehicle was marked, identification as a peace officer and reason for the officer's presence. Officers should describe the specific orders, command or requests that they gave to the subject. Both officer's and subject's responses and reactions to those commands should be documented.

Factors that need to be documented are number of officers / subjects, height and weight of subjects, gender and age of subjects, strength and fighting skills of subjects, physical condition of subjects, clothing, stance of each subject, prior contact, obvious prison or gang tattoos, gang attire and access to potential weapons, physical environment and subject's potential to gain assistance or aid from friends or associates.

"discuss factors that can affect a peace officer's response when threatened with danger,

to include:

• fear
• reasonable
• unreasonable
• anger
• indecision and hesitation" - CORRECT ANSWER: - uncontrolled fear and anger tend

to decrease the officers' ability to make sound judgement and decisions as well as increase hesitation, verbal abuse and unreasonable force.

• unreasonable fear includes overreactions to true potential threats as well as reactions

to unreal threats based on prejudice or poor application of past experience i.e. past experience of samoans attacking or muslims being suicide bombers

• reasonable fear may result when an officer experiences increased tension in response

to a potential threat i.e. suspect with a gun

• universal anger i.e. being attacked or shot at

• personal anger is individual sensitivities or emotional bruises i.e. history in certain

situations like domestic violence or child abuse

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• uncontrolled fear and anger can lead to indecision and hesitation with a higher

probability of unreasonable force

"explain the legal framework establishing a peace officer's authority during a legal

arrest, including:

• subject's requirement to submit to arrest without resistance
• peace officer's authority to use reasonable force during a detention or arrest." -

CORRECT ANSWER: "If a person has knowledge, or by the exercise of reasonable care, should have knowledge, that he is being arrested by a peace officer, it is the duty of such person to regrain from using force or any weapon to resist such arrest PC 834a

An arrest is made by an actual restraint of the person, or by submission to the custody of an officer. The person arrested may be subjected to such restraint as is reasonable for arrest and detention PC 835"

"recognize the impact of invoking:

• the right to remain silent
• the right to counsel" - CORRECT ANSWER: "Once a person invokes the right to

silence, miranda requires that all interrogation must cease. However, there are circumstances where reinitiation by the peace officer may produce an admissible

statement. These circumstances include:

• a period of time has gone by and the officers have some new information and/or the

officers want to ask about a different crime

One the miranda right to counsel has been asserted, all interrogation must cease. There are no circumstances, except for the actual presence of the attorney."

1524 PC presents statutory grounds for issuance of a search order when the property or thing: - CORRECT ANSWER: - was stolen or embezzled (1524(a)(1)

• was used as the means of committing a felony (1524(a)(2)

• is in the possession of any person with the intent to use it as a means of committing a

public offense, or in the possession of another to whom the item may have been delivered for the purpose of concealing it or preventing its being discovered (1524(a)(3)

• constitutes evidence that tends to show a felony has been committed, or tends to

show that a particular person has committed a felony (1524(a)(4)

• consists of evidence that thens to show that sexual exploitation of a child or the

possession of matter depicting sexual conduct of a child has occurred or is occurring (1524(a)(5)

• when there is a warrant to arrest the person (1524(a)(6)
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• is a sample of blood that constitutes evidence that tends to show a violation of VC

23140, 23152 or 23153 and the person from whom the sample is being sought has refused an officer's request to submit to, or has failed to complete, a blood test as required by section VC 23612 and the sample will be drawn from the person in a reasonable, medically approved manner (1524(a)(13)

• are controlled substances or a device, contrivance, instrument or paraphernalia used

for unlawfully using or administering a controlled substance pursuant to the authority described in section 11472 HSC (1524(a)(16)

A protective vehicle search is permitted if: - CORRECT ANSWER: - the driver or other occupant is being lawfully detained

• the officer reasonably believes that there may be a weapon or item that could be used

as a weapon, inside the vehicle

A search incident to arrest may be conducted when: - CORRECT ANSWER: - probable cause for a lawful arrest exists

• the suspect is taken into custody

• the search is at the same time as the arrest

A search incident to custodial arrest may include: - CORRECT ANSWER: - a full search of the arrestee's person

• containers on the arrestee's person

• the nearby physical area that was under the immediate control of the arrestee

A search is deemed incident to an arrest only if it occurred: - CORRECT ANSWER: - at or near the time of the arrest

• at or near the place of the arrest

• while the arrestee is still at the scene

Accessories to a crime - CORRECT ANSWER: "An accessory is anyone who, after a felony has been committed, meets all the following requirements: (Penal Code Section 32)

• has knowledge that the principal has committed, has been charged with, or has been

convicted of committing a felony

• harbors, conceals, or aids a principal in the felony
• has the intention of assisting the principal to avoid or escape arrest, trial, conviction, or

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The crime of accessory is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail and/or fine. (Penal Code Section 33)"

Accomplices to a crime - CORRECT ANSWER: "A principal to a crime becomes an accomplice when he or she testifies for the prosecution against another principal.Accomplice testimony must be ""corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof."" (Penal Code Section 1111)"

Against a person's will - CORRECT ANSWER: Without the consent of the person

An individual serving a period of probation must agree to certain conditions such as -

CORRECT ANSWER: - getting a job

• avoiding drugs

• not traveling outside a limited area

• submitting to periodic searches without a warrant, probable cause or reasonable

suspicion

An officer can seize evidence from a suspect's person incident to an arrest and without a warrant when they have - CORRECT ANSWER: - probable cause to arrest, the officer must be aware of facts that constitute probable cause to arrest

• probable cause to search, the officer must reasonably believe that the search will

result in the discovery of evidence of a crime

• exigent circumstances, it must be reasonable to believe that evidence will be lost or

destroyed if the officer waits to obtain a warrant

• a need that outweighs the intrusiveness, the need for the evidence must outweigh the

intrusive nature of the search and any foreseeable danger

Annoy - CORRECT ANSWER: To harass, disturb or irritate, especially by repeated acts

Annoying or molesting children - CORRECT ANSWER: PC 647.6. To commit any act

against a person under the age of 18 which would annoy any reasonable person and is motivated by abnormal or unnatural sexual interest. WOBBLER

Arson - CORRECT ANSWER: PC 451. Willfully and maliciously setting fire to or burning or causing to be burned or aiding, counseling or procuring the burning of any structure, forestland or property is a felony

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