Exam 6: Patrol and General Duty Policing

Which of the following is defined as "the requirement that police officers make decisions on the basis of reasonable suspicion and probable grounds rather than stereotypes"?

Compare and contrast allocated and unallocated patrol time.

FIDO is an acronym used to describe how police officers sometimes deliberately avoid involving themselves in problem incidents that may lead to a citizen complaint.

The RCMP has never deployed two-officer patrol units.

What are "typifications" and "recipes for action"? Identify and discuss one potential negative consequence of police officers relying on typifications and recipes for action.

Which of the following is defined as "the amount of time that patrol officers have that is not committed to responding to calls for service"?

Patrol officers across Canada typically work ten- or twelve-hour shifts.

Define high-visibility/high-consequence policing and describe two negative consequences of it for police officers.

The best-practice standard is for patrol officers to have 30 percent of their time unallocated so that they can engage in proactive and problem-solving activities.

Which statement reflects Canadian research findings about the difference between one- and two-officer patrol units?

An Ontario police agency decides to analyze calls for service and their responses to these calls as part of their yearly Performance Monitoring Report.Which system will provide the service with the data to conduct this analysis?

Define differential police response (DPR).Are there any consequences of using DPR strategies for community policing initiatives?

An Aboriginal teenager is pulled over by officers claiming the teen rolled through a stop sign rather than coming to a complete stop.The officers complete a full vehicle search without due cause other than the belief that Aboriginal teens are responsible for drug trafficking in the community and,therefore,there may be drugs in the car.What is the term for this police practice?

A two-car patrol unit sees two men waiting on the street in front of a bank wearing hooded sweatshirts and carrying backpacks.The officers decide to approach the men,as the officers think the men are about to rob the bank.Which police perception does this exemplify?

Officers in smaller police services are typically responsible for a smaller range of duties than officers in larger police services.

Describe how overpolicing and pretext policing are associated with racial profiling.

Who utilizes the "W system" while completing their day-to-day tasks working for a police service?

Police dispatch receives two calls from citizens at a time when the number of calls to dispatch outnumbers available patrol units.One reports an in-progress act of vandalism and the other reports a man waving a knife at a bus station.Dispatch immediately sends officers to the latter call.What is this practice called?