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 CHAPTER 5: THE POLICE OCCUPATION

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A mature male applies for the RCMP and is rejected for failing to disclose he was once investigated as
a suspect in a break-and-enter. Which qualification is he lacking in the application process?
a. core competencies
b. standard qualifications
c. favoured competencies
d. preferred qualifications
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2. During the police recruiting process, what are items such as citizenship, age, physical abilities,
common sense, and good judgment known as?
a. core competencies
b. standard qualifications
c. preferred qualifications
d. developmental competencies
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3. A female applies for the RCMP after returning from completing a bilingual undergraduate degree
program abroad. Which qualification does this experience exemplify in the recruitment process?
a. core competency
b. favoured qualification
c. preferred qualification
d. developmental competency
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4. Which of the following is defined as “the minimum requirements for candidates applying for
employment in policing”?
a. basic qualifications
b. standard qualifications
c. favoured qualifications
d. preferred qualifications
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5. During the police recruiting process, what are items such as volunteer work, coaching youth sports,
and work experience known as?
a. core competencies
b. standard qualifications
c. preferred qualifications
d. developmental competencies
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6. Which province’s Police Act requires that all applicants complete a three-year college program to
obtain a diploma, or meet standards of equivalence to this program?
a. Ontario
b. Quebec
c. Alberta

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 d. British Columbia
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7. How much has the proportion of women graduating from Depot increased over the past five years?
a. 4 percent
b. 8 percent
c. 12 percent
d. 16 percent
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8. An Aboriginal female is interested in becoming an RCMP police officer but she does not meet the
entry requirements to do so. What Aboriginal policing initiative could she participate in to help
overcome her shortcomings?
a. Aboriginal Recruit Maturation Program
b. Aboriginal Pre-Cadet Training Program
c. Police Aboriginal Recruiting Committee
d. Aboriginal Cadet Development Program
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9. A recruit successfully completes a review at an Assessment Centre and is hired by a municipal police
service to undergo training, which consists of three blocks, including both classroom learning and field
experience. Which province follows this procedure for recruitment and training?
a. Alberta
b. Ontario
c. New Brunswick
d. British Columbia
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10. Which statement describes “previously experienced officers”?

a. military-trained persons who are interested in a policing career
b. retired police officers who are interested in returning to a career in policing
c. private police officers who are interested in becoming public police officers
d. in-service police officers who are interested in leaving their current police service
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11. Where is the Canadian Police College (CPC) located?

a. Alberta
b. Quebec
c. Ottawa
d. British Columbia
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12. During the first year of her career, a recruit becomes negative about police work and the criminal
justice system, adopting her partner’s attitudes. What does this process exemplify?
a. formal socialization
b. natural socialization
c. official socialization
d. informal socialization
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 119 BLM: Higher Order

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 13. Which of the following is NOT a component of the “working personality of police officers”?
a. the “blue wall”
b. the “blue code”
c. the “code of silence”
d. the “blue-light syndrome”
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14. Which of the following is defined as “an attitudinal set that emphasizes the high-risk/action component
of police work”?
a. code of silence
b. hypervigilance
c. hyperattentiveness
d. blue-light syndrome
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15. An off-duty police officer goes to dinner with her family and insists upon sitting facing the other
patrons in the restaurant rather than sitting with her back to them. Which concept does this behaviour
exemplify?
a. blue code
b. hypervigilance
c. hyperattentiveness
d. blue-light syndrome
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16. Which of the following trends has undermined police officers’ isolation, solidarity, and traditional
distrust and suspicion of the general public?
a. community-focused policing
b. absence of diversity in police services
c. regionalization of conventional authority structures
d. centralization of traditional command-and-control structures
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17. A police officer has completed five in-service training courses, including advanced collision analysis
and strategic intelligence analysis. What “type” of police officer characteristics does this exemplify?
a. experts
b. careerists
c. specialists
d. professionals
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18. What five “types” of police officers have been identified, based on their key interests and career
orientations?
a. providers, professionals, specialists, social activists, enforcers
b. self-investors, careerists, specialists, social activists, enforcers
c. providers, professionals, experts, social advocates, authoritarians
d. self-investors, careerists, experts, social advocates, authoritarians
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 124 BLM: Remember

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 19. A police officer experiences difficulties sleeping (e.g., inability to fall asleep, nightmares) after being
involved in a fatal shooting. What is this officer likely experiencing?
a. tired cop syndrome
b. chronic fatigue syndrome
c. post-traumatic stress disorder
d. critical incident anxiety disorder
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20. Which Canadian police agency has adopted the Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program from the
Canadian military to address the mental and physical health issues among its officers?
a. Toronto Police Service
b. Calgary Police Service
c. Saskatoon Police Service
d. Vancouver Police Department
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TRUE/FALSE

1. Only 10 percent of youth surveyed nationwide in Canada in 2010 indicated that policing was their
primary choice for a career.

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2. The average age of police recruits in many police services is in the early 20s.

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3. Essential competencies are those that can be acquired through training.

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4. The proportion of women attending Depot over the past five years has increased by 16 percent.

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5. Female officers now account for approximately one in five officers in the Toronto Police Service.

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6. Approximately 90 percent of all police service applications across the country are unsuccessful.

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7. Considerable variation across the country exists in terms of how new police recruits are trained.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: p. 113 BLM: Remember

8. RCMP cadets at the Training Academy in Regina are NOT employees of the RCMP.

ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: p. 116 BLM: Remember

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 9. Police officers consistently face a lower fatality rate than those employed in mining, construction,
commercial fishing, and forestry.

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10. As recently as 1997, RCMP policy did not allow officers to wear the Sikh turban.

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SHORT ANSWER

1. Compare and contrast the basic qualifications (core competencies) and the preferred qualifications for
police candidates.

ANS:
Basic qualifications (core competencies) are the minimum requirements for candidates applying for
employment in policing, whereas preferred qualifications are requirements that increase the
competitiveness of applicants seeking employment in policing.

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2. Many police services include post-secondary education as a preferred qualification; discuss two
reasons why post-secondary education may make an individual a better police officer.

ANS:
There will be a variety of answers for this question, but students may discuss how post-secondary
education may increase an individual’s ability to think critically and on their feet, which are both
important qualities for officers to possess. Post-secondary education may also mean the candidate is
older and has more life experience, which may help prepare them for the challenging situations they
encounter on the job.

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3. Compare and contrast the BC and RCMP police training models, identifying one advantage and one
disadvantage of each.

ANS:
BC municipal police officers are hired after successfully completing a review at the Assessment
Centre located at the Justice Institute Police Academy. This review includes: (1) a group discussion,
(2) an oral communication situation, (3) a fact-finding, decision-making scenario, (4) a writing
exercise, and (5) a background interview. After being hired, training commences and consists of three
training blocks. RCMP officers are not employees of the RCMP when they are at the Training
Academy in Regina; they are potential members of the RCMP, on a temporary contract. Following
their twenty-two weeks at “Depot,” recruits are officially hired by the RCMP and sent to a field
training detachment for six months of field training, after which time they may be posted anywhere in
Canada. Students will assess and describe potential advantages and disadvantages of each model,
based on their understanding of the recruitment and training process.

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4. Define previously experienced officers (PEOs), and describe two reasons why they are highly
desirable to police services.

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ANS:
PEOs are in-service police officers who are interested in leaving their current police service. Students
will discuss reasons why they think PEOs may be highly desirable to police services; for example,
because they have completed training and bring years of service experience to the new force.

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5. Describe what is meant by the working personality of the police, describing three components of the
working personality.

ANS:
The working personality of the police is a set of attitudinal and behavioural attributes of police
officers. Various components of the working personality of the police may be discussed, including: a
preoccupation with danger; an excessive suspicion of people and activities and a protective cynicism;
the practice of a code of silence to protect fellow officers; strong in-group solidarity with other police
officers (the “blue wall”); attitudes that emphasize the high-risk/action component of police work,
often referred to as the blue-light syndrome; and hypervigilance.

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