Deck 19: Personnel and Training

Question 1

Deployment is the minimum operating force necessary to provide police services within a jurisdiction.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Queuing theory is an economic theory related to situational crime prevention.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Scheduling and deployment mean the same thing.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

State and local police agencies are generally efficient in meeting their operational goals but questions remain as to the effectiveness of the operational goals.

Question 5

According to significant research, the outcome of an emergency situation is much improved if the police officers arrive within four minutes instead of seven minutes.

Question 6

Larger police agencies tend to divide their jurisdictions into smaller geographic units called beats or reporting districts.

Question 7

If beats are organized by workload they probably have the same geographic sizes.

Question 8

Some agencies use United States Census tracts to determine their Reporting Districts.

Question 9

Just as it is believed that a small number of offenders commit the lion's share of crime, so too it is believed that a small percentage of police officers are responsible for a disproportionate share of citizen complaints.

Question 10

Under stress people do not tend to rely on learned responses.

Question 11

An agency can use information from the ________ to determine how much time police officer spend on certain activities.

A) Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
B) Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
C) Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) System
D) Evidence Management System (EMS)

Question 12

When beats are reorganized or developed, the agency looks at information from a large time frame. The sample that is used is at least ________ because law enforcement has daily, weekly and even seasonal cycles.

A) three months
B) one year
C) eighteen months
D) five years

Question 13

________ is learning specific information. ________ is applying that information.

A) Skill; Knowledge
B) Expertise; Skill
C) Expertise; Proficiency
D) Knowledge; Skill

Question 14

State and local agencies are turning to ________ forms of training as a means of imparting information and simulating field conditions.

A) traditional
B) multimedia
C) secondary
D) primary

Question 15

The first application of technology in law enforcement training was probably ________ lessons.

A) field
B) video taped
C) classroom
D) none of the above

Question 16

Scheduling is the process of moving personnel resources to meet ________ needs.

A) personal
B) employee
C) deployment
D) individual

Question 17

Two of the earliest deployment and scheduling software applications were the Patrol Car Allocation Model (PCAM) and ________.

A) Hyper Allocation
B) Hyper Schedule
C) Hyper Cube
D) Hyper Deploy

Question 18

Deployment is usually determined by ________ and scheduling by ________.

A) managers; the community
B) managers; supervisors
C) supervisors; managers
D) supervisors; the community

Question 19

When determining workload, the investigative section or division of a state or local police agency is usually concerned with ________ rather than calls for service.

A) scheduling
B) caseload
C) warrants
D) deployment

Question 20

Investigators will often file ________ with their supervisors to indicate what actions and what their investigations have discovered.

A) preliminary investigation reports
B) follow-up reports
C) warrant reports
D) suspect reports

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT true regarding police beats?

A) They increase a police officers ownership of problems.
B) They tend to reduce police officer driving time between calls for service.
C) They tend to increase partnership with the community.
D) none of the above

Question 22

Which of the following is the most recent development in law enforcement training?

A) Training Simulators
B) Audio Tapes
C) Secondary Classroom Training
D) Video Taped Lessons

Question 23

Which of the following is a criticism of training simulators?

A) They can be very life-like.
B) They do not convey the impression to newer officers that every situation is life-threatening.
C) They are inexpensive.
D) They may not provide instructors with the ability to teach a full range of force options.

Question 24

Which of the following is a challenge to implementing a police officer discipline early warning system?

A) There are often legal and union considerations.
B) Do compare productivity to complaints?
C) Do you enter all citizen complaints, including false complaints?
D) all of the above

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT a form of multimedia training?

A) Video Taped Lessons
B) Lessons on CD-ROM
C) Simulators
D) Classroom lecture

Question 26

The mathematical model that combines the factors of circumstance and a goal to determine the number resources needed to attain the goal is best described as:

A) The Rationale Choice Theory
B) The Hyper Cube Theory
C) The Queuing Theory
D) The Critical Social Theory

Question 27

Using electronic means to combine different audio and visual technologies in order to facilitate training best describes:

A) Single Media Training
B) Hypermedia Training
C) Simulated Media Training
D) Multimedia Training

Question 28

The process of moving personnel resources around to meet deployment needs best describes:

A) Patrol Car Allocation Model (PCAM)
B) Scheduling
C) Supervision
D) none of the above

Question 29

Creating a database that records citizen complaints and other disciplinary matters against a police officer in order to intervene and change employee conduct best describes the creation of:

A) An internal affairs management system
B) A personnel allocation system
C) An employee monitoring system
D) An early-warning system

Question 30

Training is critical because of which of the following?

A) They may have been exposed but did not learn the information.
B) Information may have been learned, but there was no practical application and the skill was not acquired or faded.
C) A police officer may not have been exposed to a certain subject.
D) all of the above