CJBAT General Practice 4

Question 1

An officer finds conflicting accounts from two reliable witnesses. The best approach is to:

Accepted Answer

Corroborate each with available physical evidence

Answer

Cross-checking accounts against evidence yields the most reliable conclusion.

Question 2

Which word means 'to make less severe'?

Accepted Answer

Mitigate

Answer

'Mitigate' means to lessen the severity of something.

Question 3

A suspect description says 6 feet tall. How many inches is that?

Accepted Answer

72

Answer

6 feet times 12 inches equals 72 inches.

Question 4

When writing an incident report, officers should record events:

Accepted Answer

In chronological order

Answer

Chronological order makes a report clear and easy to follow.

Question 5

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Accepted Answer

The officer asked, "Are you injured?"

Answer

Direct quotations require a comma before and quotation marks around the spoken words.

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