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According to Groton Town Police rules and regulations, an officer is required to log each attempt to serve arrest /prawn/vop warrants in records management where?

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Organizational Charts are good for what purpose?

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They are a good diagram and show the structure of an organization and the relationship relative to the ranks of is parts and positions/jobs

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A hearing without a jury to determine the admissibility of evidence is called?

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Suppression hearing

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The success of a crime scene is dependent upon what?

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The first person responding to the scene and how they secure it

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What is the word for the need or impulse to commit a crime?

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Motive

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What are the elements necessary to charge someone with perjury? CGS 53a-156

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In an official proceeding and under oath, the actor intentionally makes a false statement, swears, affirms, or testifies falsely to a material statement which they do not believe to be true

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If in officer comes off sick leave and is prescribed a narcotic, what should they do?

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Notify their supervisor immediately

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What are the elements of a pursuit?

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Nature of the offense
Time of day
Speed of the pursuit
Weather conditions
Road conditions
Traffic conditions
Geographic location
Population density
familiarity with the area
Whether the identity of the occupants is known and immediate apprehension is necessary or feasible at a later time
Relative performance capabilities of the pursuit vehicle and vehicle which is being pursued
The presence of other persons in the police vehicle (civilian ride-along, etc..”)

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Upon commencing a pursuit the officer shall maintain communications with the dispatcher and communicate the following information:

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Id of officer and/or vehicle if applicable
Description of the vehicle and/or it’s occupants
Exact location and direction of travel
reason for pursuit
speed of pursuit
Road and traffic conditions
any other situations that would affect the pursuit

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Should a supervisor join a pursuit?

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No

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The validity of a search / seizure will be weighed by the following?

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Reasonableness of the search. Courts will consider the circumstances surrounding the encounter. The will consider the physical force used or show of authority used. Totality of the circumstances as viewed by a reasonable person

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What is NIMS?

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National Incident Management System is a unified structure for private and public entities to work together to respond to all types of domestic incidents

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An individual comes to police headquarters and says that they have a bias complaint against one of your officers. What do you do as a Sergeant?

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Courteously and promptly address any complaint made by a citizen against any officer of the department. Supervisors may attempt to resolve a complaint, but never dissuade a citizen from lodging a complaint against any officer. Also, any officer made aware of a complaint concerning a department member shall bring this to the attention of their supervisor. Provide the complainant with a department civilian complaint form

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As a Sergeant, you are told by the shift commander of a subordinates’s serious error. What should you do?

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Investigate the issue immediately and submit a written report.

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What is the order of problem solving elements?

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Identify the problem
Understand everyone’s interests
List possible solutions
Evaluate the options
Select an option
Agree on option/solution

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There is no doubt that there is a need for selective enforcement in police work. All of the following are justification offered by the police as to why the engage in selective enforcement except:

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Most laws are worded so loosely that strict enforcement is virtually impossible

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What should be the focus of your patrol officers?

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Patrol your posts in an irregular manner while conspicuously covering all areas as frequently as possible

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Who can give permission to search a juvenile’s room?

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Parents unless the child has exclusive access to the area. Also, parents of a college student while they are away at school

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You have just deployed a CEW probe deployment on an individual and have brought them under control. What must you do now?

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Render medical aid
Summon EMS to the scene for evaluation
Respond to the scene (as a supervisor)
Photograph the subject’s injuries and area
Preserve the evidence from the deployment, collect probes (if they have become disconnected), wires, AFID’s if X26P
Complete an incident report and use of force form
Digital evidence will be available from the cloud

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Interpersonal communications are most prevalent where

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At an incident involving victims, suspects or witnesses
Mid-level management, upper level management, operations, executive management

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What is the definition of morale?

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State of spirits of a person or group exhibited by confidence, cheerfulness, and desire to perform the task at hand.

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What are the elements needed to charge someone with conspiracy?

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the actor must agree with one or more persons to engage in or caused the performance of such conduct, and any of these persons commit an overt act in pursuance of such conpsiracy

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At what state may an officer develop a behavioral problem

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Any stage

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What are the elements needed to charge someone with criminal liability?

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A person, acting with a mental state required for the commission of a crime, solicits, commands, importunes, or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct constituting an offense shall be criminally liable for such conduct and may be prosecuted and punished as if such person was the principal offender

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An officer comes to you regarding their desire to seek off-duty employment. You advise the officer that the steps are as follows:

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1- such employment shall not interfere with the officer’s employment with the department
2- officers shall submit a written request for off-duty employment through their chain of command, to the Chief of police, whose approval must be granted prior to engaging in such employment
3- officers shall not engage in employment or business involving the sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages, investigative work for insurance companies, private security services, collection agencies, or attorneys

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What are the elements for entrapment?

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Conduct by an officer inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit

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What are the elements of physical force in defense of a person? CT CGS 53a-19

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a person is justified in using reasonable physical force upon another person to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of physical force, and he may use such degree of force which he reasonably believes to be necessary for such purpose; except that deadly physical force may not be used unless the actor reasonably believes that such other person is (1) using or about to use deadly physical force, or (2) inflicting or about to inflict great bodily harm.

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As a subordinate, you are given an order the day before by the lieutenant. The next day, you receive a different order on the same topic. What do you do?

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Officers who are given an otherwise proper order, which is in conflict with a previous order, rule, regulation, or directive, shall respectfully inform their superior officer of the conflict.

If the superior order does not retract the order, the order shall stand. Officers shall obey the conflicting order and shall not be held responsible for disobedience of the order previously issued. Officers shall not obey what they believe to be an unlawful or illegal act.

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What can a disinterested, negligent sergeant cause amongst his junior officers?

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Lethargy, low morale, and failure in leadership

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Generally, the following is the best type of statement for a court to use while prosecuting a case is?

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Voluntary
Under Oath
Given by the person which is consistent with other statements
Statement is consistent with those of disinterested person

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You are tasked with completing a photo line up. How many photo’s of suspects must you include?

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6

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One of your officers is having difficulty with report writing. How can you help them?

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Go over report writing. Provide positive examples. Discuss what is necessary for report writing.

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What is the best way to obtain witness statements when there are many?

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Speak to witnesses separately from one another and ensure that they are voluntary

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When a rater is subjective and rates employees on her own view of certain traits and aspirations, she is committing the rating error known as?

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Contract: considers things in contrast to themselves

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When an officer is promoted to sergeant, they assume new responsibilities which include all but….

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Planning
organizing
directing
*** Doing the work

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True / False
When an officer is promoted to the rank of sergeant, they will begin engaging in what experts refer to as a two-way relationship. This relationship means that the sergeant will be responsible for the work effort of the officer he or she supervises while representing them to the upper echelon of the department?

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True

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It is the policy of a certain police department not to delegate authority to it’s member. Which of the following is the most likely result?

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The decision making will be centralized

38
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Which of the of the following is not a basic line function of a police traffic control?

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Traffic direction
Traffic device design**
accident investigation
enforcement of traffic laws

39
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A complex case needs to be written up. How should it be written?

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In paragraph form. The first paragraph being the summary or short synopsis of what had occurred. The following paragraphs should be facts and details presented in chronological order

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At times the skills of certain members of a police department may cause changes to be made in the organization structure of the department. These changes are more properly made…

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At the top of the organization because of the skills or limitations of the higher level officers

41
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What is the halo effect?

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the tendency for an impression created in one area to influence opinion in another area.

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Some raters do not rate employees fairly. When a rater rates all employees about average, which rating error is being committed?

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Central tendency error

43
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Two things officers crave the most from employment are?

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recognition and security

44
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True or False
NIMS is centered on the concepts of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a major domestic incident

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True

45
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And expandable or collapsible system that focuses on goals and objectives and uses commons terms to reer to its officers is known as….

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ICS then incident command system

46
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True of False
NIMS has 6 major components

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Command and management
Preparedness
Resource management
Communications and information management
supporting technologies
ongoing management and maintenance

TRUE

47
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The command of NIMS is based on three systems

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incident command system ICS
Multi-agency coordination system
public information system

48
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This system defines the interaction and organization of supporting groups and agencies?

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Multi-agency coordination system

49
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This system deals with communicating systems and procedures to the public

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Public Information system

50
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This system defines and operations structure and direction during and incident

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Incident command system

51
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Ensuring the means to assist other jurisdictions with resources, services and support during an incident is called ….

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Mutual Aid

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This component sets up processes for collecting, interpreting, and disseminating information to the incident manager and those impacted by the incident…

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Communications and Information Managment

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What are the five key components of the Incident Command System?

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1 Incident commander-the person who bears overall responsibility for the incident
2 Operations-carries out all incident objectives, such as directing a team to search a specific area
3 Planning - Plans incident objectives in cooperation with the incident commander
4 Logistics - provides resources to carry out the incident objectives
5 Finance / Administration - tracks resources from mobilization to demobilization and provides accounting for the cost of the incident

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True or False
If you first on the scene as an EMR, you make take the role of incident commanders

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True, until properly relieved

55
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What are the advantages of the incident command system?

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Common terminology
clear communication
Unified command
Unity of command
Manageable span of control

56
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Regarding ICS and manageable span of control refers to what?

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Span of control pertains to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incident

57
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ICS requires that any single person’s span of control should be limited to a certain amount. What is the number of individuals ICS recommends?

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Between 3 and 7 individuals, with five being ideal. In other words, managers should no have more than 7 people working under them at any one time.

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Unified command is considered?

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All agencies working together to establish goals and makes decisions

59
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TRUE / FALSE
NIMS allows for governments and/or municipal agencies to work together in response to domestic incidents

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true

60
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Who should be notified when an outside police agency notifies the department?

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Sergeant and/or lieutenant

61
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True or False
Domestic Violence incidents should be given an next day court date, all other incidents should be given a two week court date.

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True

62
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Regarding dog bites, if a dog bit occurs on an owners property, where should the quarantine take place?

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It can be the owners property or the property of a friend, vets office, etcc

63
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Where should the quarantine take place if occurs off the owners property?

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At a dog pound or private kennel

64
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If there is an indication that the owner may not comply with an order to quarantine an animal or leave the property, what should the shift commander do?

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May call the ACO to seize the dog and bring it to the pound

65
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The state of Connecticut requires a ____ day quarantine period for domestic animals.

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14

66
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TRUE or FALSE
n quarantining the animal after a bite, if there is a significant injury, the quarantine will take place at the dog pound

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True

67
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TRUE or False
The ACO has the authority to issue restraining or disposal orders for aggressive animals

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true

68
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In accordance with CGS 54-86j, this type of person shall not be requested to submit to a polygraph examination

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A victim of an alleged sexual assault

69
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TRUE or False
A polygraph examination can be administered to a subject who has already been arrested for the criminal offense at issue?

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False, unless the request to polygraph is made with the knowledge and approval of the prosecuting attorney or presiding judge and that the subject’s defense counsel is notified of the examination

70
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Can a Groton town polygraphist examine a subject who has previously been examined by another agency’s polygraphist?

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yes

71
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What is a line inspection?

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It is a formal inspection conducted by members in control of it’s personnel, vehicles, equipment, facilities, and procedures being inspected.

72
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What is a staff inspection?

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It is an objective review of an agency’s procedures, personnel, facilities, and operational activities. These inspections ARE NOT conducted by personnel who do not directly supervise the persons, facilities, and procedures being inspected.

73
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What is required to conduct line inspections?

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Supervisors

74
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What is the GTPD mission statement?

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The mission of the Groton Police Department is to serve the public in a professional manner. We take on the responsibility of making our community safe for all those that live, work or pass through here. We also strive to make our roads safe for motorists and
pedestrians alike. It is our responsibility to work with other agencies and with the public we serve and treat everyone with respect and dignity.

75
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What are the GTPD core values?

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RESPECT f
STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE in all our activities
CUSTOMER SERVICE
to be ETHICAL and MORAL

76
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Define Burglary in the first degree?

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A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when
(1) such person enters or remains unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime therein and is armed with explosives or a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or
(2) such person enters or remains unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime therein and, in the course of committing the offense, intentionally, knowingly or recklessly inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily injury on anyone, or
(3) such person enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling at night with intent to commit a crime therein.

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Define Burglary in the second degree?

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A person is guilty of burglary in the second degree when such person enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling, while a person other than a participant in the crime is actually present in such dwelling, with intent to commit a crime therein.

78
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Define Burglary in the Third Degree?

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person is guilty of burglary in the third degree when he enters or remains unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime therein.

79
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Essentially, what is Burglary in the 2nd degree with a firearm?

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Burglary 2nd and in the commission of such offense he uses or is armed with and threatens the use of or displays or represents by his words or conduct that he possesses a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm.

80
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An offense for which a person may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in excess of one year is considered a…..?

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Felony

81
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An offense for which a person may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment not more than one year is…..?

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Misdemeanor

82
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Define Sec. 53a-64aa. Strangulation or suffocation in the first degree: Class C felony

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A person is guilty of strangulation or suffocation in the first degree when such person commits strangulation or suffocation in the second degree as provided in section 53a-64bb and (1) in the commission of such offense, such person (A) uses or attempts to use a dangerous instrument, or (B) causes serious physical injury to such other person, or (2) such person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or section 53a-64bb.

83
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Define Sec. 53a-64bb. Strangulation or suffocation in the second degree: Class D felony.

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(a) A person is guilty of strangulation or suffocation in the second degree when such person restrains another person by the neck or throat or obstructs such other person’s nose or mouth with the intent to impede the ability of such other person to breathe or restrict blood circulation of such other person and such person impedes the ability of such other person to breathe or restricts blood circulation of such other person.

84
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Define Sec. 53a-64cc. Strangulation or suffocation in the third degree: Class A misdemeanor.

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a) A person is guilty of strangulation or suffocation in the third degree when such person recklessly restrains another person by the neck or throat or obstructs such other person’s nose or mouth and impedes the ability of such other person to breathe or restricts blood circulation of such other person.

85
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Any search of an individual requiring the removal or arrangement of some or all clothing to permit the visual inspection of genitals buttocks, and/or female breasts is considered a ……?

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Strip search

86
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Any search involving not only visual inspection of skin surfaces, but the internal physical examination of the body cavities and, in some instances, organs such as the stomach cavity is considered a…?

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Body cavity search

87
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Individuals arrested for traffic violations for any criminal offense shall not be subject to a strip search unless the arresting officer has _____, ______, _______ to believe the individual is concealing contraband or weapons

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Reasonable, articulable, suspicion

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