In a classroom simulation exercise, you are practicing questioning a fellow who is playing the role of a crime victim. You are told “He pulled out a gun, and told me to hand over my wallet. Then he ran out the door of my office, and made a left turn, going north down the corridor, and then made a right turn, and ran down the stairwell. I crossed the corridor, and looked straight ahead out the window, and saw him running away from me, with his back to me, running down the street. He then made a left turn at the corner.”According to this information, you would be most correct to radio that the perpetrator was last seen traveling:

Spatial Orientation - This ability involves determining where you are in relation to the location of some object or to tell where the object is in relation to you. Another Spatial Orientation format provides the candidates with a map (e.g., of a patrol sector). This map may include one-way streets or streets that are obstructed or unusable for some reason. The candidates are asked to identify the most efficient route to drive from one location to another, given the constraints of the situation.  Visualization - This ability involves imagining how something would look when it is moved around... Show more

Spatial Orientation - This ability involves determining where you are in relation to the location of some object or to tell where the object is in relation to you. Another Spatial Orientation format provides the candidates with a map (e.g., of a patrol sector). This map may include one-way streets or streets that are obstructed or unusable for some reason. The candidates are asked to identify the most efficient route to drive from one location to another, given the constraints of the situation. 

Visualization - This ability involves imagining how something would look when it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. It requires forming mental images of how patterns or objects would look after certain changes, such as unfolding or rotation. One has to predict how an object, set of objects, or patterns will appear after the changes have been carried out.

Another Visualization format presents the candidates with a diagram or floor plan, which may be a mirror image or some other variant of an area officers must enter.

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Recruit officers are participating in a simulation exercise in which they are responding to the scene of a barricaded emotionally disturbed person in an artist’s studio. The barricaded person is a performance artist who has a history of drug use and paranoid schizophrenia. He has broken into the studio of a rival artist, Suite 23C, and is threatening to kill both himself and the other artist in order to “save the world from the commercialization of art.” The landlord has been able to provide a diagram of Apt. 13D, which she says is a mirror-image of Apt 23C, on the other side of the hallway corridor.

Study the diagram and answer the questions.

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