Exam 1: Introduction to Police Technology

Police technology primarily concerns what type of technology?

Generally, Community Orientated Policing has four characteristics. Which of the following is NOT one of those characteristics?

The ________ is the person for whom the technology was designed.

A person or group that can affect or is affected by a decision can be called a/an:

An organization that uses fewer inputs to complete an activity can be thought of as more ________ whereas an organization that uses inputs to meet organizational goals can be thought of as ________.

In the management of public organizations, if we lose sight of our ultimate goal, we can end up being efficient but ineffective.

Situational Crime Prevention involves increasing offender risk of detection and/or offender effort.

A ________ is a specific activity a police officer is directed to perform based upon information provided by another source.

Which of the following can be thought of as the opposite of communications fragmentation?

________ can be a person or group who has a direct interest in a problem.

A Self Initiated Activity is anything done by a police officer based upon her observations.

The problem solving model SARA has four parts, Scanning, Analysis, Response and:

Sworn and civilian employees of police organizations have the same powers of arrest.

Centralized decision making and problems solving are two prime characteristics of agencies using the community orientated policing model.

________ can be thought of as information used in planning.

Tactical information is generally used to make immediate decisions.

Efficiency can best be described how an organization meets its goals.

Police employees who have taken an oath of office and have greater powers of arrest are ________.

An end user is someone who designs and/or implements technology.

Community Policing has ten core elements. Those elements are generally divided into three categories. Which of the following is NOT a category of the elements?