COPS Training Curriculum Quiz

True or false: Prior to the 1950s, police officers received formal training.

True or false: The COPS era emphasizes cultural diversity, communication, crime prevention, and problem-solving.

True or false: The reform era focused on the technical and mechanical aspects of police duties, rather than a generalist approach.

Police academy training has two general aspects: The academic component and the hands-on training component.

Traditional police academies are designed in a paramilitary fashion.

Police officers are required to receive periodic refresher training throughout their careers for perishable skills.

Modern police training focuses exclusively on law or technical policing skills.

Soft skills training is not important in policing.

Law enforcement agencies around the world are not held accountable with similar expectations.

The focus of organizational management should be on results, not behaviors.

True or false: Soft skills such as communication and problem solving are not emphasized in police training during the reform era.

True or false: Only 10 percent of a police officer's job duties require the use of firearms and other use-of-force tactics.

True or false: Traditional police training focuses primarily on paramilitary approaches and technical policing skills.

True or false: The contemporary police training approach incorporates principles of adult education and civilian perspectives.

True or false: Cognitive skills include decision-making, impulse control, conscientiousness, and adaptability?

True or false: Emotional skills include resiliency, emotional regulation, and stress tolerance?

True or false: Social skills involve communicating tactfully and respectfully with others?

True or false: Moral skills include integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness?