Police Compass Newsletter

Crossword Answer Key

 

  

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1.

 

Statute of _____ is a statute that made policing a community responsibility

 

5.

 

Officers protecting one another from outside scrutiny and criticism

2.

 

Elevated alertness about potential dangers

 

7.

 

The application of criminal intelligence analysis to facilitate crime reduction and prevention

3.

 

How patrol officers depict or categorize the people and situations they encounter

 

8.

 

The power or right to decide or act according to one’s own judgment

4.

 

Officers lying under oath in court

 

10.

 

A disproportionate police focus on a racialized population or neighbourhood

6.

 

_____ Police Act established a full-time unarmed police force in London

 

11.

 

A model of police work involving a mix of traditional sworn police officers with new types of police and private security personnel

9.

 

The _____ system is an early system of maintaining order in early England

 

14.

 

The attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner

12.

 

Genetic information that can be used in case investigations

 

15.

 

Individual police officer misconduct

13.

 

How behaviour is defined as right or wrong

 

19.

 

Individuals encountered by patrol officers who display mannerisms and behaviours that suggest the potential for violence

16.

 

A strategy designed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of police

 

21.

 

Evidence in criminal investigations that is detected through at least one of the fives senses

17.

 

Policies that establish standards of behaviour for police officers

 

22.

 

Established the first full-time police service

18.

 

An ethical _____ is a situation in which a person has to make a decision or take a course of action in the race of two or more conflicting ethical principles or values

 

24.

 

The approach used by police dispatchers to determine key facts about a call

20.

 

A document that permits a police officer to arrest a specific person for a specified reason

 

25.

 

Group misconduct by police officers

23.

 

Unarmed officers who generally have special constable status

 

29.

 

Also known as the 80/20 rule

26.

 

____ cop syndrome

 

30.

 

A discriminatory police practice of stopping persons randomly and asking for identification in the absence of any evidence they have committed a crime

27.

 

The practice whereby officers add entries to their notes at a later time

 

 

 

 

28.

 

System used by investigators that includes information on predatory and sexual crimes of violence