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Police Officer Exam: Information Ordering Practice Test 1
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Information Ordering: This ability involves following correctly a rule or set of rules or actions in a certain order. The rule or set of rules used must be given. The things or actions to be put in order can include numbers, letters, words, pictures, procedures, sentences, and mathematical or logical operations.

Police Officer Exam: Information Ordering Practice Test 1
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1. Recruit officers in the Academy are told that if they are in a situation in which persons are being held hostage or barricaded persons will not voluntarily surrender, they should do the following in the order given:
1. Notify the Communications Division of the situation, so they can notify the patrol supervisor, Emergency Service Unit, and Operations Unit.
2. Verify that the patrol supervisor and Emergency Service Unit are responding.
3. Attempt to confine and isolate the subjects involved pendin arrivalf th patro. supervisor and Emergency Service Unit.
4. Maintain firearms control and establish police lines.
5. Maintain continuous surveillance of the location, if possible. Detain witnesses for later debriefing.
In a role-play exercise in class, the recruit officers are given a situation in which officers respond to a barricaded person situation. They have notified the Communications Division, and have verified that the patrol supervisor and the Emergency Service Unit are responding. The next step they should take is to:
2. The instructor tells the Police Science class that when officers stop a vehicle and discover that the operator is driving with a revoked or suspended license, the following steps should be taken in the order given:
Confiscate the driver’s license.
Prepare a Seized Driver’s License Receipt/Report.
Give the driver the receipt for the license.
Make sure the vehicle is parked legally until the registered owner of the vehicle can arrange to have the vehicle removed by a licensed operator.
If the driver has two or more unrelated suspensions or his license has been revoked for any reason, arrest and transport the driver to the precinct.
The instructor gives the class the following example: Officers who observed a motorist driving erratically stopped him and asked to see his license and registration. The license has been revoked, although the car’s registration appeared valid. What should the officers do next?