Exam 6: Patrol and General Duty Policing

Which of the following is defined as "categorizing calls for service based on the response required"?

Which of the following is defined as "discretionary enforcement due to the inability of police officers to enforce all of the laws at all times"?

Which of the following is defined as "the centralized,computer-based information system used by police services"?

Define call shedding and call stacking,and describe how they relate to one another.

Which of the following is defined as "a strategy to discard or divert calls for service to match available police resources"?

Which of the following is defined as "how patrol officers depict or categorize the people and situations they encounter"?

As the level of seriousness of a call to the police increases,the amount of police discretion decreases.

Research studies have found that eight-hour shifts are optimal for maintaining work/life balance for officers.

An officer is dispatched to an in-progress vandalism call.A teenager is detained,and through on-site communication the officer,the homeowner,and the teenager agree that rather than face charges,the teenager will help paint the garage he vandalized.What practice does this exemplify?

What five duties are recognized under common law and are at the core of police work?

Define racial profiling,and describe why it is important to consider in a country such as Canada,where diversity continues to increase.

Identify and describe the task (or policing)environment,providing two examples of how this environment may impact individual officer behaviour.

Police services strive to achieve certain response times for different priority calls; what is the ideal response time for Priority 1 calls?

Three police officers in a small Canadian town have worked 37 days straight,are known by first name by each of the 343 community residents,and make daily decisions impacting their own well-being and the well-being of their families and the community residents.What type of policing does this exemplify?

While being processed by airport security a man is singled out for additional screening by Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP officers; the man believes this occurs because he is Muslim.If he is correct,what does this exemplify?

In 2009 in Toronto,the average response time for Priority 1 calls was just over 8 minutes.

Responding to high-priority crime calls represents only about 20 percent of patrol officers' duties.

In which case did the Ontario Court of Appeal define racial profiling as "the targeting of individual members of a particular racial group,on the basis of the supposed criminal propensity of the entire group"?

In many jurisdictions,25 to 30 percent of calls for service involve a mental health component.

A police officer pulls over a vehicle travelling at 80 km/h in a posted 50 km/h zone.How will the police officer obtain information about the driver's driving record?