MPOETC Certification Exam Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A (Latest 2023/ 2024 Update)
MPOETC Certification Exam Questions and
Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A
(Latest 2023/ 2024 Update)
Q: What are the 2 standards for traffic stops?
Answer:
1.Reasonable suspicion- inves- tigative offense (DUI)
2.Probable cause
Q: What can police do during a traffic stop?
Answer:
-Ask for ID, registration and insur- ance
-Order everyone out of the car
-question about offense
-Keep at the scene
Q: What can’t police do during a traffic stop?
Answer:
-Search for an ID
-Frisk
-Question about other crimes
-Search the car
Q: What is considered to be an arrest?
Answer:
Any act that indicates the intention to take a person into custody, subjecting the person to the
will and control of the police.
Q: Lawful arrest
Answer:
-Need PC for the arrest
-The law does not require any PC that evidence will be found
Q: Why do courts allow for a search incident to arrest?
Answer:
-Officer safety
-Safety of the accused
-Make sure evidence is not discarded or destroyed
Q: What are police allowed to do in a search incident to arrest?
Answer:
1.search as many times as necessary
2.multiple officers can search
3.multiple locations are allowed
4.clothes and shoes
5.bags
6.wallets
7.over 10 hours is permissible
Q: What is a wingspan search?
Answer:
police may search any area withing the “wingspan” of a person to make sure there are no
weapons or dangerous materials which the arrested person could use to hurt the police.
Q: What limitations do we have when searching a person?
Answer:
1.Cell phones
2.Strip searches
Q: Consent search requires what 4 elements?
Answer:
1.Authority to give consent
2.Knowing and intelligent
3.Scope
4.Execute lawfully
Q: Who has the authority to give consent to search?
Answer:
Permission can only be given by someone with an interest in the property. To include:
1.Joint ownership
2.Common authority
3.Temporary control
4.Apparent authority
Q: Joint ownership requirements
Answer:
-any owner can give consent
-husband/wife/paramours/co-owners
-each has the right to withdraw consent given by another
-each owner can give temporary interest in the property to another
Q: Common Authority requirements
Answer:
-any member can give consent to law en- forcement to search areas that are jointly under their
control
-For areas that are exclusively under the control of a household member, consent must be given
by that person
Q: how are parent and a minor consent searches done?
Answer:
If child is under age
18, parents have the power to give consent over the child’s property. However, if parent has given
exclusive rights to the child, then consent must be obtained from the child.
Q: Cars and house guests consent to search
Answer:
Cars- owner, driver, passenger
House guests- areas reasonably under common acces to guest
Q: Landlord and tenant consent to search
Answer:
Landlord cannot give consent to search an apartment. Must be obtained by renter or someone
with common interest. Anyone with interest in areas under common authority can give consent.
Q: Car rental consent to search
Answer:
Mere fact that driver is not listed as an authorized operator of car does not defeat claim of a
reasonable expectation of privacy.
Q: What is apparent authority?
Answer:
When consent is obtained from someone who reasonably appears to have an interest in the
property, the search is reasonable. Even if it is later discovered that the person did not have an
interest in the property.
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