LSC questions Flashcards
LSC questions
A police officer is lawfully entitled to enter and be upon private premises without consent of the lawful occupier to:
Arrest a person the officer believes on reasonable grounds is at the address
S99(1)(b) of LEPRA provides that a police officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person if reasonably necessary for which reason:
- Because you believe you have sufficient evidence to prove the person’s guilt at court
- To protect the safety or welfare of any person (including the person arrested).
- Because you wish to interview the person about the offence
- All of the above
To protect the safety or welfare of any person (including the person arrested).
You are on mobile patrol when you observe a car weaving on the road. You stop the car and subject the driver to a breath test which proves positive. You now have the power to arrest the driver persuant to?
Schedule 3, clause 4 of the road transport act 2013.
An intoxicated person detained by a police officer under s 206 of LEPRA may be taken to and detained in an authorised place of detention if it is necessary to do so temporarily for the purpose of:
- Obtaining medical care
- Preventing intox person from obstructing person/s or traffic
- Preventing the further consumption of intoxicating liquor by the intox person
- Finding a responsible person willing to undertake the care of the intoxicated person
Finding a responsible person willing to undertake the care of the intoxicated person.
A police officer may detain an intox person under s206 LEPRA, even though the persons behaviour constitutes an offence under s9 of summary offences act 1988, if the detention of the person is:
NOT for the purpose of taking proceedings for the s9 offence.
A police officer must supply certain information to a person subject to the exercise of a power conferred by an authorisation under the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002. Of the following, what information does NOT need to be supplied?
- Evidence that you are a police officer (if not in uniform)
- Your name and place of duty
- The name of the officer who gave the authorisation
- The reason for the exercise of power
The name of the officer who gave the authorisation.
As a police officer you may discharge your firearm when there is an immediate risk to your life or the life of someone else, or there is immediate risk of serious injury to you or someone else, and:
There is not other way of preventing the risk.
You may only discharge your firearm when there is:
No other reasonable course of action available
Pursuant to s197 of LEPRA, you may give a direction to a person in a public place if you believe on reasonable grounds the persons behaviour or presence in that place is causing or is likely to cause fear to another person or persons of reasonable:
Firmness
You see a person commit an offence but as you attempt to make an arrest he runs away. You pursue the offender for a short time and are able to make the arrest. The arrest was made by virtue of s 99(1)(b) of LEPRA to:
To stop the person fleeing from a police officer or from the location of the offence
While conducting a foot patrol of the CBD you are approached by a shopkeeper who asks you to move on a homeless person sitting outside her shop. The homeless person is not committing any offences. Do you have the power to issue a move on direction?
No, homelessness does not meet the criteria for a move on.
A police officer may enter premises and stay for a reasonable time without the consent of the lawful occupier in certain circumstances. Which one is NOT one of those circumstances?
- To arrest a person
- To serve a court attendance notice
- To end or prevent a breach of the peace
- To prevent significant physical injury to a person
To serve a court attendance notice
Pursuant of s133 of LEPRA, the power to take fingerprints from a person is limited to those over 14 years of age and who are:
In lawful custody for any offence, in the field or at a police station, without the person’s consent.
You stop a vehicle you suspect on reasonable grounds was used in connection with an indictable offence. Pursuant to s14 of LEPRA, you may require the disclosure of the identity of the driver or a passenger in the vehicle at or about the time of the offence from:
The driver, any passengers, or the owner
You and a number of other police are lawfully on premises for the purpose of establishing a crime scene. When informing the lawful occupier that a crime scene is being established, how many police officers must comply with safeguards pursuant to part 15 of LEPRA?
One one officer, however, all other officers must provide their name and place of duty if requested to do so.
You see an offender stab another person in the chest and flee. You give chase but the offender gets into a car and drives away. You see the same offender two days later and arrest him. The arrest was made pursuant to s99(1)(b)(iv) of LEPRA because:
The nature and seriousness of the offence.
Which of the following provides justification for arresting a person without a warrant pursuant to section 99(1)(b) of LEPRA?
- To expedite entry into the criminal justice process
- For any common law offence
- To preserve evidence of the offence or prevent the fabrication of evidence
- For failing to comply with a bail acknowledgment or bail condition imposed under the bail act 2013
To preserve evidence of the offence or prevent the fabrication of evidence
Pursuant to s197 of LEPRA, you may give a direction to a person whose behaviour or presence in a place constitutes relevant conduct. ‘place’ means:
Public place
A police officer who requires a person to remove any face covering worn by the person pursuant to s 19A of LEPRA must, as far as reasonably practicable, ensure certain procedures are followed, what are they?
- Must ask for the person’s cooperation
- The viewing of the person’s face must be conducted
- In a way that provides reasonable privacy for the person if the person requests privacy
- As quickly as is reasonably practicable
While on patrol you see the driver of a motor vehicle commit a minor traffic offence. You stop the vehicle and speak to the driver. He refuses to give you his full name and place of abode, or produce his licence. Your power to arrest without warrant is found in which act?
LEPRA
While on patrol you see a man carrying the blade of a knife in his hands. He flee’s and you chase him into the grounds of a private boarding school for secondary level students. Can you search him?
Yes, providing you comply with safeguards under Part 15 of LEPRA.
Section 28A of LEPRA gives police the power to search any person in lawful custody and to take from them:
Anything found on that search.
As the first responder to an active armed offender incident, you are authorised to move beyond the principle of containment and negotiation, and deploy for the purpose of:
- Locating offender(s)
- Restricting access the offenders(s) may have to further victims
- Implementing an appropriate resolution option
When making an arrest, a police officer must be satisfied the arrest is reasonably necessary for any one or more of the reasons set out in?
S99(1)(b) of LEPRA
You reasonably suspect that a person is the ‘Target’ of an authorisation under the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002. What type of search may be conducted on this person?
General search and strip search
You would be more likely to consider using your handcuffs when you have arrested and offender who:
- Is argumentative
- Has attempted to injure themselves
- Is intoxicated
- Has no prior criminal history for acts of violence
Has attempted to injure themselves
Are you required to comply with the safeguards pursuant to Part 15 of LEPRA when conducting a knife search of a student at the students school?
Yes, you must always comply with the safeguards
You may draw your firearm and also point or aim it as a precautionary measure if you consider:
You are likely to be justified in using it.
You may use your baton if in danger of being overpowered or:
To protect yourself or others from injury
You attend the scene of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on private property one hour prior. A passenger in the vehicle is deceased but the 20-year-old driver is not injured. Both had consumed alcohol immediately before the accident. You may:
Arrest the driver and take him to a hospital for the purpose of providing blood and urine samples
Pursuant to s 198 of LEPRA, a police officer may give a direction to an intoxicated person who is in a public place to leave the place and not return for a specific period. What is that period?
6 hours
While shopping, you see a man take several grocery items off a shelf, conceal them in his clothing and flee the supermarket. You immediately arrest the man. Pursuant to s 99(1)(b) of LEPRA, your reason/s for doing so may include:
- Establishing a man’s identity
- To obtain property in the possession of the man that is connected with the offence
- To stop the man fleeting from the location of the offence
- Any of the above
Any of the above.
You have an arrest warrant in your possession for a person. You attend the person’s residence but he refuses to let you in. You may enter the premises to effect the arrest:
- without the person’s consent
- only with the person’s consent
- only with the consent of the other lawful occupier
- only if the warrant is endorsed to allow entry
without the person’s consent
The power to take particulars (photographs, fingerprints and palm prints) necessary to identify a person over the age of 14 years who is in lawful custody for any offence is found in:
- The NSW Police Force Handbook - Fingerprints
- The Common Law
- s133 LEPRA
- S76 of Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000
s133 LEPRA
When carrying out a search of a person authorised under LEPRA, if reasonably practicable in the circumstances, you must ask for the person’s:
- Confession
- Contraband
- Compliance
- Co-operation
Co-operation
You attend a dewlling house to investigate a complaint of DV, however, entry is denied. After speaking to the neighbours you strongly suspect a DV has recently been committed. You would:
- enter the premises, by force if necessary
- apply for a warrant to continue your investigation
- remain at the location but outside the property’s boundary to prevent a beach of the peace.
- remain at the location but outside the property’s boundary and attempt to negotiate entry via telephone.
apply for a warrant to continue your investigation
Any discharge of a Taser is characterised by one 5 second cycle in either probes discharged or drive stun mode. The use of multiple cycles on a person should be avoided and only considered in exceptional circumstances. After how many cycles MUST you reconsider its continued use?
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
3
Police may, under certain circumstances, lawfully discharge their firearm to:
- Arrest an escapee from gaol
- stop a person setting fire to an abandoned house
- stop a man from stabbing his wife
- disperse offenders involved in a riot
stop a man from stabbing his wife
You may use OC defensive spray only for:
- The protection of human life
- controlling people where violent resistance or confrontation occurs or is likely to occur
- protection against animals
- Answer options 1,2,3 all apply.
Answer options 1,2,3 all apply.
A person walking along a footpath is stabbed during a failed robbery attempt. He staggers into the driveway of a residence, collapses and dies. You attend and commence establishing a crime scene. The owner arrives and tells you to remove the body immediately. Can you remain?
- Yes, providing you comply with Part 7 of LEPRA
- Yes, if you comply with Part 3.4 of the Coroners Act 2009
- Yes, if you comply with Part 9 of LEPRA
- Yes, If you comply with s230 of LEPRA
Yes, providing you comply with Part 7 of LEPRA
Pursuant to s88 of LEPRA, a police officer who is lawfully on premises (whether by authority of a crime scene warrant or any other lawful reason) may establish a crime scene, exercise crime scene powers and what else:
- investigate the offence
- detain any person on the premises
- Bring equipment onto the premises
- Stay on the premises for those purposes
Stay on the premises for those purposes
Under Part 3.9 of Evidence Act, the preferred form of suspect identification is:
- Picture identification
- crowd scene identification
- identification parades
- in court of ‘dock’ identification
identification parades
A person goes to the front door of a house intending to break in and steal a TV. When he tries the door, which is closed, he finds that it is unlocked. He enters through the unlocked door, steals the TV and leaves through the same door. The most appropriate offence is:
- Stealing
- Steal from Dwelling
- Break, Enter and Steal
- Enter inclosed lands
Break, Enter and Steal
When conducting an ID parade, the suspect should be placed among a line of not less than how many other persons?
- 4
- 6
- 8
- 12
6
John Smith is employed as a checkout operator at a local supermarket. A customer gives Smith money for a number of grocery items. Instead of putting the money in the till, Smith puts it in his pocket and later spends it. The offence committed is:
- Stealing
- Embezzlement
- Fraudulent appropriation
- larceny as a clerk or servant
Embezzlement
A person finds a wallet in the street. He searches the wallet and locates the victim’s debit card and a note containing the PIN for that card. He goes to a shop and buys a TV for $900 using the debit card and PIN in the shop’s Eftpos terminal. The appropriate offence is:
- Larceny
- Fraudulent appropriation
- Fraud
- Larceny as a bailee
Fraud
A 13-year old boys is travelling on a train by himself. He is approached by three men who group around him. one of the men produces a knife and demands the boy’s shoes. The boy is afraid so he takes his shoes off and gives them to the man who demanded them. The offence committed is:
- Demand property with menaces
- larceny
- Robbery being armed or in company
- Robbery
Robbery being armed or in company
The role of the initial response officer responding to an adult sexual assault complaint would NOT include:
- immediately informing the DO
- Ensuring the safety of the victim
- Interviewing the suspect
- preserving the crime scene
Interviewing the suspect
The Code of Conduct and Ethics contains how many points?
- 5
- 7
- 10
- 15
10