Chapter 5 Key Terms

Question 1

Aircraft patrol

Answer 1

Patrol by airplane and helicopter is viewed as a necessity for many agencies

Question 2

Allocation of personnel

Answer 2

Refers to making decision about how many officers should be assigned to the various units in the police department

Question 3

Police operations

Answer 3

Refer to the services provided to citizens and the methods used by police agencies when delivering these services

Question 4

Beat boundaries

Answer 4

.geographic area an officer is in charge of patrolling

Question 5

Patrol function

Answer 5

Performed by patrol officers who are allocated across beats to respond to calls and to observe for crime and suspicious activities

Question 6

Investigative function

Answer 6

Is directed at solving crimes reported to the police, apprehending criminals, and recovering stolen property

Question 7

Committed time

Answer 7

Refers to any time that an officer is committed to some call or police activity

Question 8

Control Beats

Answer 8

Normal patrol

Question 9

Crime Suppression Force

Answer 9

Officers devote its time almost exclusively to crime prevention, deterrence, and apprehension activities

Question 10

Criminal Investigation

Answer 10

The processes, techniques , and methods that focus on solving crimes reported to or discovered by police

Question 11

Differential police response

Answer 11

Responding to citizen calls by means other than dispatching an officer

Question 12

Directed Patrol

Answer 12

Consist of variety of strategies : saturation patrol, stake outs, surveillance of suspects, and decoys.

It’s implementation recognizes that crime and other police hazards are not equally distributed across and time, and that recognizable patterns can often be identified.

Question 13

(Directed) D Runs

Answer 13

When officers are assigned travel to a specific location to have an impact on crime, disorder , or traffic problems

Question 14

311 call number

Answer 14

A police non emergency number that serves as a filter to allow emergency calls to be handled more quickly

Question 15

Foot patrol

Answer 15

A form of preventive patrol where officers walk an assigned beat

Question 16

Reactive beats

Answer 16

When patrol is withdrawn and police only enters the beats to respond to calls

Question 17

Proactive beats

Answer 17

Two or three times the normal levels of patrolling

Question 18

Differential police response

Answer 18

Entails responding to citizen calls by means other than dispatching an officer

Question 19

Split force patrol

Answer 19

The patrol force was split into two separate patrol groups:

1. The patrol call- answering group
2. The criminal interception group

Question 20

Stop and frisk stops

Answer 20

Are where police officers observe a suspicious person, stop the person, and talk with him or her

Question 21

Suspect oriented techniques

Answer 21

Are where agencies direct officers to concentrate on known suspects or classes of individuals

Question 22

Pretextual traffic stop

Answer 22

Occurs where an officer uses the pretext of a traffic violation to stop a vehicle to investigate for other crimes

Question 23

Preliminary investigations

Answer 23

An until inquiry into a reported crime. The process remains the same regardless of whether the investigation is to be conducted by a patrol officer or a detective

Question 24

Follow up investigations

Answer 24

The process of formally observing or studying by close examination and systematic inquiry the evidence of a crime for the purposes of criminal prosecution

Question 25

Walk through’s

Answer 25

When the suspect has been identified and apprehended

Question 26

Where - are- they’d

Answer 26

When the suspect has been identified but officers have been unable to make an apprehension

Question 27

Whodunits

Answer 27

When the preliminary investigation did not result in identification of the perpetrator

Question 28

Modus Operandi Files

Answer 28

Are file that describe how known suspects commit specific crimes

Question 29

Latent Investigation

Answer 29

Are instituted once a crime is turned over to the detective unit aka follow up investigation