Test 5 Flashcards
According to policy 5.100.1 Search and Seizure, the Fourth Amendment protects an expectation of privacy that must be both: (1) ___________ and (2) ___________.
reasonable / legitimate
True or False – According to policy 5.100.4 Search and Seizure, warrantless entries into a residence are not permitted under an Emergency Aid Exception. Instead, officers need to articulate the need for the Community Caretaking Doctrine.
False
According to policy 5.100.5 Search and Seizure, investigative detentions, also known as reasonable suspicion stops, or Terry stops allow an officer to stop a person to ascertain their __________ and ____________.
Identity / Purpose
You are the area sergeant and dispatch has called to advise you that CPS needs to serve an Administrative Search Warrant at an area residence. You are asked if we can send units to assist. You approved the request and due to the fact you have just read policy 5.100.10 Search and Seizure, you advise the dispatcher that our assistance will be limited to:
- Clearing the residence
- Addressing officer safety concerns
Per policy 4.162.1, Sick or Injured Persons: Patrol units will not be dispatched on “routine” 421 (sick or injured person) calls unless the responding medical service so requests. Routine calls include injuries from falls or accidents, general illness, heart attacks, and accidental overdoses. Patrol units will be dispatched on 421 calls that are suspicious in nature, are related to unknown trouble calls, involve injuries as a result of criminal activity or traffic accident, are the result of a gunshot, and
Indicate a need for police involvement due to other circumstances.
According to the MACTAC policy 3.540: a MACTAC response is used when incidents occur __________ and exceed conventional law enforcement__________.
Simultaneously or concurrently; tactics and resources.
True or False, according to policy 4.162.2, Response to sick or injured person calls and deaths: A sergeant will respond to all dead person calls to verify the cause and manner of death. it will be the sergeant that contacts Homicide on any suspicious deaths.
False - Not on Natural and communications notify homicide
The ____________will be notified on all child-related deaths. The Abuse/Neglect Detail will be primary investigator on most child deaths, including death by child abuse. Homicide will typically take lead if there was an act of concealment or body disposal after death. The Overdose Response Team (ORT) may assist on suspected child (teenager) overdoses and may take lead after coordination with Abuse/Neglect (see LVMPD 6.270, Overdose Investigations).
The Abuse/Neglect Detail Lieutenant
According to policy 4.180, COMMUNITY POLICING AND THE SARA METHOD: It is the policy of this department to address both crime and _________ problem-solving issues through community policing. As an integral part of the department’s community policing initiatives, Community Oriented Policing (COP) officers and crime prevention specialists are assigned to area commands to formulate strategies and promote the use of traditional and non-traditional resources in problem-solving efforts.
quality of life
According to policy 5.100 Search and Seizure: Curtilage is defined as area(s) near a residence where the residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Considerations in determining whether an area is curtilage and subject to the protections of the Fourth Amendment each of these:
- Proximity of the area to the home
- Whether the area is included in an enclosure which surrounds a home
- Nature of uses to which an area is put
- Steps taken to protect the area from observation from passers-by. The legal protection associated with curtilage is always determined in favor of the property owner, not law enforcement.
It is your Monday and you are 482 with your fellow sergeant. She tells you she was the IC on a barricade last night. She understands she is responsible for completing the After Action Report (LVMPD 422) but she doesn’t know how much time she has to complete the report. Having just read Policy 3.540.2 MACTAC Response Procedure, you tell her she needs to complete and forward the repot within_________.
10 calendar days
This same sergeant says that makes sense. Now if she only knew who to forward it to. You tell her to forward the AAR to__________.
Emergency Management
According to policy 5.100 Search and Seizure, _________ is defined as: What a person knowingly exposes to the public is not protected by the Fourth Amendment no matter where the exposure takes place. It does not justify a warrantless seizure.
Open View
According to policy 5.100 Search and Seizure, _________ is defined as: An exception to the search warrant requirement that must satisfy these conditions: (1) the officer must be in a position where there is a legal right to be; (2) the items must be immediately recognizable as contraband or evidence; and (3) the seizure must be made without substantial additional intrusion.
Plain view
According to policy 5.100, Search and Seizure, an investigative detention or reasonable suspicion stop, also known as a _________ is a seizure of a person for no more than 60 minutes, with the limited scope and purpose of conducting an investigation and for which a police officer must have reasonable suspicion that a person is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime.
Terry stop
According to policy 5.100.4, Search & Seizure: According to policy 5.100, Search & Seizure: The emergency aid exception is a recognized exception to a warrant requirement and allows officers to make a warrantless entry to summon emergency medical assistance or to ___________.
Protect an occupant from imminent bodily harm.
True or False: According to policy 5.100.4, Search & Seizure, Emergency Aid Exception: If officers determine that exigent circumstances no longer exist to remain inside a residence under the emergency aid exception, then they must exit unless proper consent is received. If officers develop probable cause to arrest an occupant before exigency no longer exists, they must attain an arrest warrant before the arrest can be made.
False
According to policy 5.100.8, Search & Seizure: Field strip searches of prisoners will be conducted only in the rarest of circumstances where the life of officers or others may be placed at risk and only with the explicit approval of a __________and only in the presence of a supervisor.
Lieutenant
True or False; According to policy 5.100.8, Search & Seizure: Federal law requires vehicles to carry a VIN visible from the outside of the vehicle. When a vehicle is lawfully stopped, an officer may enter the vehicle to look for and examine the VIN if the VIN in the front window is obscured. The intrusion must be limited to actions reasonably necessary to accomplish these goals.
True
According to Policy 7.240 Pending Calls for Service, Emergency calls will be dispatched to on-shift units up to ____. Fill in the blank.
the conclusion of their shift.
According to Policy 4.180 Community Policing Problem-Solving and the Sara Method, “SARA” a nationally recognized model developed to implement and facilitate the problem-solving process consisting of four steps, which are?
Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment