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Private Patrol Operator 190 Test
Questions
What insurance is required by law of an unarmed PPO agency that has at least one employee (besides the owner)? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Workers' Compensation insurance
what are the riles on drug-testing of a PPO's employees? - Correct Answer ✔
️ ✔️ Treat all employees the same. Have it in company policy
What are the three elements required of fire? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ Heat, fuel, oxygen
For new security guards initial 40 hours of training what information will be found on the completion certificate? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Per BSIS: The
certificate shall identify the 1) course(s) taken, 2) the number of hours of training provided, 3) identification of the issuing entity, 4)...
If an investigation is needed by the client of a PPO, how should this be handled?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ PPOs are allowed to do an investigation in connection to something they were hired to protect. However, most PPOs are not proficient investigations. Usually best to involve a licensed private investigator
When would BSIS consider your application for a PPO license to be abandoned?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Within one year
During a new security guard's initial 40 hours of training, how many hours of training is included of 'Powers Of Arrest'? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 4 hours
What type of extinguisher would be used on an electrical fire? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Type C
Who determines what type of a firearm, revolver or automatic, that a guard carries if he/she is approved by BSIS for both? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ Company policy
When can a guard use deadly force? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Only against
an immediate, life-threatening attack
What type fire extinguisher should be used on a liquid fire? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Type B
When can a PPO company ask a guard to submit to a drug test? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Per company policy; must treat all equally
What is OSHA, and what is OSHA's goal? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ Occupational Safety and Health Administration; to ensure safe and healthful
working conditions for working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by proving taring, outreach, education and assistance
If a PPO allows his/her guard employees to carry firearms without them having current FQ cards, what is the BSIS penalty against the PPO? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Up to $2500 per violation
A violation of badge or shoulder patch rules by a PPO or PPO employees might cause what fine to be assessed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
Who must approve a PPO's badge design? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The
Director of BSIS
What is the PPO applicant experience requirement? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ At least one year of experience as a patrol-person, guard, or watchman, or the equivalent
If a PPO or PPO employee has an FQ card that says '9mm', may they carry a. pistol if in uniform? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
If a PPO or PPO employee discharges a firearm within the scope & course of his/her duties, within how many days must a report of this be delivered in writing to the director of BSIS? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 7 days
How often is a PPO license renewed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Every two
years
Does an FQ card allow a gun to be carried concealed upon a person? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
If a licensed PPO wants to go to work as a guard himself/herself, does he/she need to obtain a Guard Registration? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ No
For a guard to carry a baton, is he/she required to have a certificate of baton training? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Yes
Until an FQ card is obtained, may a PPO or a guard carry a replica (not real) handgun if needed by a job assignment? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
Can a city or county regulate the uniforms of uniformed employees of a PPO, to make them clearly distinguishable from local regular law enforcement officers? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes
If a PPO wants to carry a firearm, what insurance coverage is required? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Liability insurance of $500,000 for any one loss due
to bodily injury or death, and $500,000 for any one less due to injury or destruction of property, totaling $1 million
Can lack of required insurance cause the suspension of a PPO's license? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes
What is the minimum hours of instruction required of a baton class? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ 8 hours
What is the cost of a replacement baton permit if it is lost or stolen? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
If a PPO license or Branch Office certification is not renewed within______ years of its expiration, it may not be renewed. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 3
What type of crime is making a false statement on a application for BSIS license or registration? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Felony (you sign that application
'under penalty of perjury')
A registration fee for a guard may not exceed what dollar amount? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
What is the term length of a guard registration? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 2 years
What is the current actual fee for a PPO Branch Office? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ $
If a guard acts as a PPO by contracting a security job with obtaining his/her own client, what crime has been committed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A
misdemeanor violation of the B&P Code
A renewal registration fee for a guard may not exceed what dollar amount? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
If a guard wants to carry tear gas, what is the length of the training class required by BSIS? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ 2 hours
Who if anyone, regulates guard uniform choices, such as uniform color, badge types, and shoulder patches? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ BSIS regulates design & wording of the badges and shoulder patches; local law enforcement can have their own regulations as to prevent the public confusing guards with local law enforcement officers
What does the state law say about PPO vehicles and their use of amber lights, and any required markings? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Vehicle Code 25279.b
tells that if an amber light is used, then both sides of the vehicle and its rear end must bear lettering telling 'Private Security' or 'Security Patrol' in a size that is legible at from at least 50 feet away
What does the state law say about paint choices involving PPO vehicles? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Vehicle Code 27605 tells that vehicle is not to be
painted to resemble that of an on-duty peace officer or traffic officer
How often is sexual harassment training required for those supervisors to obtain, and what training length? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 2 hours, every 2 years
What is the current California minimum wage? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ $
hour
When is a guard paid 'double-time'? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Double the
employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive day of work in workweek
What is a 'proprietary' private security officer? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A 'proprietary' private security officer is an unarmed individual who is employed exclusively by any one employer whose primary duty is provide security services for his/her employer, whose services are not contracted to any other entity or person, and who is not exempt pursuant to 7582.2, and is both A) required to
wear a distinctive uniform clearly identifying the individual as a security officer and B) is likely to interact with the public while performance his/her duties
When must a guard be paid time-and-a-half'? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ One
and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek
Can a PPO demand that his/her guard employee make an arrest? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
What are some things that should be listed in a proposal to a client by a PPO? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Cost per hour, any over-time charges, when payment is due, duties of personnel, start and stop times, dates or days needed
What methods can a PPO use to monitor that a guard is on-duty at a site? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A supervisor checking up on the security officer
Can a PPO pay his/her employees as 'independent contractors' with IRS form 1099? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔ ️ No, unless the employee is also a PPO and services are contracted between PPOs
Within how many days of a PPO changing residence or business address must the PPO notify BSIS? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 30 Days
What is the fine if a PPO fails to notify BSIS within the required time after changing address? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
Are guard required to wear a badge? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Yes if in
uniform, no if in plain-clothes
Can a PPO's marked patrol vehicle that has the company name visible on three sides of the of the vehicle have a siren? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
How many employee's can a PPO have before being required to have a Workers Compensation insurance policy? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Zero; having any
employee requires Workers Compensation insurance
If a PPO dies, for how long may the immediate family of the PPO operate the PPO's business? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 120 Days
What type of fire extinguisher would be used on a paper or wood fire? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Type A
What is the proper name for an arrest made by a guard? - Correct Answer ✔
️ ✔️ Private Person Arrest
When is an application is an application for a PPO license considered to be 'abandoned'? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ One year after applying if test not passed and license not paid for
If a PPO operates from , or advertises a, location other than the PPO's primary business location, and does not have a Branch Office for this alternate location, what is the fine? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $
Is impersonating a police officer a misdemeanor or is it a felony? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Misdemeanor
If a Branch Office certificate has been expired for 2 and half years, can it still be renewed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes; can be renewed up to 3 years expired
Can a private person make an arrest for a felony crime if that felony crime did not occur in the private person's presence? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes;
Penal Code 837
What are the two types of terrorlsm? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Domestic and International
What fire extinguisher type would you use on an electrical fire? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Type C
What is the 'Merchant's Privilege Rule'? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Penal
Code 490.5. Gives legal authority for a merchant or his employee to detain a persons suspected of shoplifting in a retail store.
Can a guard be sued for making an arrest, by the arrestee? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Yes
Who, at BSIS, 'shall administer and enforce the rules'? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ The Director of Consumer Affairs
What is an "FQ Card'? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Firearms Qualification Card;
exposed weapon carry
If a person without a PPO license offers security or protection services to the public, What type of crime has been committed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A
misdemeanor violation of the B&P Code
What is the dollar fine for a misdemeanor violation of offering PPO services without a PPO license? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $10,
