FSC100 – Questions With Correct Solutions (Graded
A+)
Police Right Ans - The body enforcing the law and maintains order
Policie Right Ans - French word for police "to keep order"
Greek word for police Right Ans - Astymonia
Politeia Right Ans - Citizenship, administration, civil polity
police force Right Ans - a constituted body of persons empowered by the
state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder
The first centrally organized police force was created by Right Ans - the
government of King Louis XIV in 1667 to police the city of Paris (the royal
edict)
Head of police force Right Ans - Lieutenant general of police
Pre French Revolution task of the police Right Ans - ensuring the peace and
quiet of the public
and of private individuals, purging the city of what may cause disturbances,
procuring abundance, and having each and everyone live according to their
station and their duties
Modern police forces Right Ans - • City of Glasgow Police (1800)
• Surete in Paris - (1810)
• Metropolitan Police in London (1829)
• Royal Irish Constabulary (1822)
Preventative role of the police Right Ans - patrolling the streets,
maintaining a
public presence, and investigating crime as part of a professional service
template for North American Police
Forces Right Ans - Metropolitan Police in London
,Sir Robert peel statement Right Ans - The police are the public and the
public are the police
first disciplined police force for Greater
London Right Ans - Bobby's boys or "bobbies".
Benefits and duties of policing in north America Right Ans - •Keeping law
and order and maintaining a uniformed
police presence.
•Railroad security
•Labour Strikes
•Horse thieving
•Rioting
Where was the first municipal police force in North America? Right Ans - In
Toronto 1934
first signs of any Canadian legal traditions Right Ans - Quebec City adopted
a watchman system
Ontario - constabulary and a watch-and-ward system.
Expansion of Police Forces in North America Right Ans - Toronto Police
(1834)
•Montreal and Boston Police (1838) •Quebec City Police (1840)
•New York City Police (1844) •Philadelphia Police (1854
One of the original police responsibilities in Toronto Right Ans - catching
Yonge Street shopkeepers who threw their garbage on the street
forerunner of Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police Right Ans - North-
West Mounted Police (NWMP)
Achievement of NWMP Right Ans - ended the whiskey trade, suppress the
North-West Rebellion, and brought order to the Klondike Gold Rush
NWMP combined with ..... to for RCMP Right Ans - Dominion Police
Who is responsible for the majority of policing services Right Ans -
Municipalities
, Who provides other policing services Right Ans - provincial and federal
agencies
One of North America's largest deployed police services Right Ans - Ontario
Provincial Police (OPP)
standards that police services must meet are set out in the Right Ans -
Police Services Act
Policing Standards Manual Right Ans - contains guidelines to help
municipalities and police services, understand and know how to follow the
Police Services Act and regulations. Explains the ministry's position on policy
issues, Gives information and advice on how to manage and operate a police
service
Atavism Right Ans - criminals were born to commit crimes due to
biological deviance
Positivism Right Ans - crime was the product of social causes
Cesare Lombroso - physical characteristics Right Ans - Atavist and
Psychiatrist - considered to be the "father of modern criminology"
Alexandre Lacassagne - geography Right Ans - Positivist and Professor of
Legal Medicine - referred to as the "father of forensic medicine"
Pioneers in Forensics Right Ans - Alphonse Bertillon, Edmond Locard, Hans
Gross
Alphonse Bertillon Right Ans - Criminal anthropologist - anthropological
technique for identifying prisoners (known as Bertillonage or
Anthropometry). Waste of time because criminals could change their names
Alphonse Bertillon's quote Right Ans - Up to now, the police, and behind
them the courts, moved in a vicious circle; one photographed people to be able
to find out their name, but in order to locate a previously taken photograph,
we needed the name of the offender.
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