
Students will understand the nature and format of questions that may appear on the California POST police academy written examinations for this course.
Students will be able to familiarize themselves with the POST workbooks and find out other information via the POST website.
Students will understand test taking tips for the California POST police academy written examinations.
Students will be able to ask any question, leave comments and/or rate this course for the benefit of others.
Students will be given an overview of this course, what will be covered and how it will be covered.
Students will understand the responsibility for peace officers to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of all citizens as it applies to unreasonable search and seizure.
Students will understand the responsibility for peace officers to protect the Fifth Amendment rights of all citizens as it applies to double jeopardy, being a witness against ones self, or depriving a person of life, liberty or property without due process.
Students will understand the responsibility for peace officers to protect the Sixth Amendment rights of all citizens as it applies to a speedy trial, the ability to confront witnesses against them and obtain witnesses in their favor and the assistance of counsel, during court proceedings.
Students will understand the responsibility for peace officers to protect the Fourteenth Amendment rights of all citizens as it applies to the application of law equally to all people.
Students will understand when peace officers can he held personally liable if, while acting under the color of law, they deprive or deny someone a legal right to which the person was entitled.
Students will be able to understand and recognize what constitutes appropriate conduct during a consensual encounter.
Students will be able to understand and recognize conduct that may elevate a consensual encounter.
Students will be able to understand and recognize the consequences of elevating a consensual encounter.
Students will be able to understand the difference between a detention and a consensual encounter.
Students will be able to understand they must have a reason or factual basis they can articulate in order to lawfully detain a person, reasonable suspicion.
Students will be able to understand the restrictions and appropriate actions peace officers may take during detentions.
Students will identify the scope and conditions for warrantless searches and seizures during a detention.
Students will understand if and when force or physical restraint may be used during a detention.
Students will be able to understand probable cause to made arrests and/or conduct searches under the 4th Amendment.
Students will be able to understand the elements to make a lawful arrest.
Students will be able to understand the difference between an arrest and a detention.
Students will be able to understand the requirement that any person making an arrest must convey certain information to the individual arrested at the time of the arrest.
Students will be able to understand the statutory requirements to make a warrantless arrest for misdemeanors.
Students will be able to understand the statutory requirements to make a warrantless arrest for felonies.
Students will be able to understand the requirements to arrest an individual inside their dwelling.
Students will be able to understand the requirements to enter a dwelling to make an arrest.
Students will be able to recognize the requirements to make a private person's arrest.
Students will be able to recognize when the use of force or physical restraint during an arrest is warranted.
Students will be able to understand the requirements for the disposition of arrestees.
Students will understand that sometimes circumstances might occur when a person has committed a crime and cannot be arrested.
Students will understand the purpose and requirements of the Miranda warning.
Students will be able to understand when Miranda warnings are required.
Students will be able to understand the proper administration of Miranda warnings.
Students will be able to understand the waiving or invoking of the Miranda requirements.
Students will be able to understand the Miranda warning waivers and the actions afterwards.
Students will be able to understand the exceptions to Miranda requirements.
Students will be able to understand the differences between interviews and interrogations.
Students will be able to recognize when Interrogations take place and under what conditions.
Students will be able to understand the differences between admissions and confessions.
Students will be able to understand the when confessions or admissions may be inadmissible in court due to improper conduct.
Updates to StudiGuide 15 / October 2019
This StudiGuide course provides a practice review-testing resource for police academy cadets (based on the state of California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standard and Training 'POST' requirements) to help understand and pass the POST written examinations.
RECOGNIZE a peace officer’s responsibility in relation to the protections and rights included in the following amendments to the U.S. Constitution and related California Constitution sections:
· The Fourth Amendment
· The Fifth Amendment
· The Sixth Amendment
· The Fourteenth Amendment
RECOGNIZE a peace officer’s responsibility in relation to the protections included under federal civil rights statutes.
RECOGNIZE:
· appropriate conduct during a consensual encounter
· conduct that may elevate a consensual encounter
· the consequences of elevating a consensual encounter
· reasonable suspicion
· appropriate peace officer actions during a detention
· the scope and conditions for warrantless searches and seizures during a detention
· conditions where the use of force or physical restraint is appropriate during a detention
· when there is probable cause to arrest
· information that must be given to an arrested person
· elements of a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor
· elements of a warrantless arrest for a felony
· elements of a warrant arrest
· the requirements for entry into a dwelling to make an arrest
· the authority for a private person arrest and the peace officer’s duty in response to a private person arrest
· conditions under which the use of force or physical restraint is appropriate during an arrest
· the statutory requirements for the disposition of an arrested person
· the exception(s) to the powers to arrest
· when Miranda warnings must be given
· the impact of invoking: the right to remain silent and the right to counsel
· the types of Miranda waivers
· the exceptions(s) to the Miranda rule
DIFFERENTIATE between:
· a detention and a consensual encounter
· an arrest and a detention
· an interview and interrogation
· an admission and a confession
IDENTIFY:
· elements of a lawful arrest
· the purpose of the Miranda warning(s)
· the proper administration of Miranda warnings
· the purpose of an interrogation
· the conditions in which a confession or admission may be inadmissible in a court