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TCOLE (Master Study Guide) 2024
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That condition of the human organism that consists of its health and disease status and risk potential.
Wellness
According to the Occupations Code, a person licensed as a peace officer must complete 40 hours of legislatively required continuing education training once every
24 months
According to Commission Rules, if a licensee's name is changed for any reason, such as marriage, divorce, or other court action, it must be reported to the Commission within _____ days
30 days
According to Commission Rules, if a current license holder is arrested for any offense above a Class C misdemeanor, the license holder shall report the facts of the arrest to the Commission in writing within
30 days
According to Commission Rules, the license of any licensee who does not meet the legislatively required continuing education by the expiration date will
Expire
Which of the following is an advantage of having the professional model for law enforcement?
More effective problem solving techniques
The expression or use of facts without distortion by personal feelings or prejudices is the definition of
Objectivity
Investigations relating to the deprivation of civil rights under color of law are usually conducted by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
According to the Penal Code, a public servant acting under color of office or employment commits the offense of Official Oppression if the public servant
Intentionally subjects another to sexual harassment lly sub
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Gives the right to trial, open to the public
Cruel and unusual punishment are prohibited by which amendment?
8th
According to the _____ Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, powers not specifically reserved to the federal government are reserved to the state government.
10th
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a _____ is an order issued by a judge directed to anyone having a person in their custody, commanding them to produce such person and show why they are in custody
Writ of habeas corpus
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Court of Criminal Appeals does NOT _____.
Review decisions of civil cases
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the ______ courts shall have original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to the justice court, and when the fine to be imposed shall exceed five hundred dollars.
County
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer who investigates a family violence allegation or who responds to a disturbance call that may involve family violence shall advise any possible adult victim of all reasonable means to prevent further family violence, including _____.
Giving written notice of a victim's legal rights
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which of the following is NOT a use of force option for dispersing a riot?
Use any defree of force
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, an affidavit made before a magistrate charging the commission of an offense is called a/an_____.
Complaint
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the security given by the accused that he will appear and answer before the proper court the accusation brought against him is known as _____.
Bail
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a written statement of a grand jury accusing a person of an offense is a/an _____.
Indictment
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a person is arrested when the person has been ____.
Taken into custody
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a written statement that is filed and presented on behalf of the State of Texas by a district attorney that charges a person with an offense that may be prosecuted according to law is called a/an _____.
Information
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer from another state may pursue a fleeing person into Texas and arrest them there, if the person is suspected of committing ______.
A felony
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the time allowed for the execution of a search warrant shall be _____ whole days, exclusive of the day of issuance and the day of its execution.
3 whole days
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which court has original jurisdiction over all felony cases?
District Court
The right to have an attorney present during questioning was affirmed by _____.
Miranda V. Arizona
Persons found in suspicious places, and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons are about to commit some offense against the laws may _____.
Be arrested without a warrant
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer or any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in their presence or within their view if the offense is classified as _____.
A felony
In U.S. v. Carroll, the Supreme Court upheld an officer's right to search a vehicle's trunk when the officers have _____.
Probable cause
Under temporary detention, a person _____ be required to identify himself.
Cannot
The act of keeping back, or withholding, by design, a person, is the definition of _____.
Detention
The right of the officer to search the immediate area of control in a search incident to an arrest was affirmed in _____.
Chimel V. Calfornia
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a search warrant is a written order, issued by a magistrate and directed to a peace officer, commanding him to _____.
Search for any property or thing and seize the same
Holding a person for a limited time who, as yet, is not answerable to a criminal offense is ____.
Temporary Detention
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, if a _____ from another state comes into or passes through this state under an order directing him to attend and testify in this or another state, he is not subject to arrest or the service of civil or criminal process because of any act committed prior to his arrival in this state under the order.
Witness
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, an officer must have _____ to believe the property is stolen to justify seizure of the property.
Probable Cause
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, a peace officer may arrest, without a warrant, when a felony or breach of the peace has been committed in the presence or within view of a _____ and such person verbally orders the arrest of the offender.
Magistrate
The poisonous tree doctrine, which displays the notion that evidence obtained after illegal government action will be excluded from evidence, was affirmed in _____.
Wong Sun V. U.S.
You can frisk if there is _____ that the suspect may be in possession of a weapon.
Reasonable fear
When a search is conducted after a lawful arrest, within immediate control and contemporaneous with the arrest, the search is justified under _____ to lawful arrest.
incidental
What is generally considered to be that area of open space surrounding a dwelling, which is so immediately adjacent to the dwelling that it is part of the house?
Curtilage
According to the Penal Code, what is NOT part of the element of an offense?
admission of guilt
According to the Penal Code, in the case of an "exception to an offense," the burden of proof lies with the _____.
Prosecuting attorney
According to the Penal Code, a person acts _____, with respect to the nature of their conduct, when it is the conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.
intentionally
According to the Penal Code, a person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is _____.
Committed by his own conduct
According to the Penal Code, what is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor was compelled by threat of serious bodily injury to engage in the proscribed conduct?
Duress
According to the Penal Code, a mistake of fact is _____.
A defense to prosecution
According to the Penal Code, in order to prove a case of public intoxication, a person must ____.
Appear in a public place while intoxicated to a degree the person may endanger himself/herself or another
A person is in the process of robbing a store when a customer enters and is shot and killed by the person. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed?
Capital Murder
A person abducts a child and demands a ransom for the child's release. The person gets scared and releases the child unharmed. According to the Penal Code, what is the most serious offense committed?
Aggravated kidnapping
Unlawfully
A person removes a $450 price tag from a retail item, replaces it with a $200 price tag and pays the lower price. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Fraudulent destruction, removal, or concealment of writing
A person steals a credit card with the intent to use it. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Credit card abuse
A person knowingly prevents a writ from being served in a civil case. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Preventing execution of civil process
A person enters the county commissioners' meeting and begins to shout obscenities. According to the Penal Code, that person has committed the offense of _____.
Disrupting meeting or procession
According to the Penal Code, a person who knowingly solicits another to engage in sexual conduct with another person for compensation commits the offense of _____.
Promotion of prostitution
According to the Penal Code, a person who intentionally operates or participates in the earnings of a gambling place has committed the offense of _____.
Gambling promotion
According to the Penal Code, what is the definition of a deadly weapon?
Anything that, in its manner of intended use, is capable of causing serious bodily injury
According to the Penal Code, all persons are presumed to be innocent, and no person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proven _____.
Beyond a reasonable doubt
According to the Penal Code, which of the following persons is NOT permitted to carry, on or about their person, a handgun?
A person carrying large sums of money
A person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to use them as a shield or hostage. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of ______.
Aggravated kidnapping
A person intentionally or knowingly restrains another person. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Unlawful restraint
A person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Kidnapping
According to the Penal Code, which of the following is NOT covered in Section 46.02, "unlawfully carrying weapons?"
Shotgun
A person, not the operator, knowingly possesses an open container (of alcohol) in a passenger area of a motor vehicle that is located on a public highway. According to the Penal Code, the person has committed the offense of _____.
Possession of alcoholic beverage in motor vehicle
According to the Penal Code, a license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent, or similar document issued by a government, by another state, or by the United States is a _____.
Governmental record
A person is in possession of a burning tobacco product in an elevator. According to the Penal Code, what offense has been committed?
Smoking tobacco
A person retains a child younger than 18, knowing this violates the express terms of a judgment. According to the Penal Code, what offense has been committed?
Interference with child custody
According to the Penal Code, conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute _____.
Entrapment
According to the Penal Code, a person is justified in using deadly force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary to _____.
prevent the others imminent commission of robbery
According to the Transportation Code, an operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last _____ feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
100
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property, is the definition of _____.
Truck
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry is the definition of a _____.
Farm tractor
. According to the Transportation Code, a vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway, is classified a/an____.
Special mobile
. According to the Transportation Code, an individual, association, corporation, or other legal entity that controls, operates, or directs the operation of one or more vehicles that transport persons or cargo over a road or highway in this state is a/an _____.
Motor carrier
According to the Transportation Code, a temporary prohibition against driving a commercial motor vehicle is what type of order?
out or service
. According to the Transportation Code, an operator approaching a railroad grade crossing shall stop if a railroad engine approaching within approximately _____ feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from that distance.
1500
According to the Transportation Code, an operator emerging from an alley shall stop the vehicle _____.
Before moving on a sidewalk
According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger, stand or park an occupied or unoccupied vehicle within how many feet of a fire hydrant?
15
According to the Transportation Code, an operator giving hand signals shall give them from _____.
The left side of the vehicle
. According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not drive at a speed greater than is reasonable and _____ under the circumstances existing
Prudent
According to the Transportation Code, a vehicle equipped with hazard lamps to warn other vehicle operators of a vehicular traffic hazard shall have the lamps visible at a distance of at least _____ feet in normal sunlight.
500
. According to the Transportation Code, a turn signal lamp mounted on the rear of a vehicle shall emit _____ light.
Red or amber
According to the Transportation Code, unless expressly provided otherwise, a lighting device or reflector mounted on the rear of a vehicle must be or reflect _____.
Red
According to the Transportation Code, an operator may not follow an ambulance closer than _____ when it is displaying headlights.
500 feet
. According to the Transportation Code, what is the minimum light transmission percentage allowable for window tinting?
30
According to the Transportation Code, a motor vehicle is abandoned if the motor vehicle is inoperable, is more than 5 years old, and has been left unattended on public property for more than _____ hours.
48