Select the correct answers to the following questions and click Submit when you are done.

 

Q.1 What should you say to a person you are arresting for burglary?

 

State your intent to arrest.

 

State the charge, which is suspicion of burglary.

 

State your authority to make the arrest.

 

All of the above.

 

 

Q.2 Once you detain a person against their will, you have placed them under arrest.

 

TRUE

 

FALSE

 

 

Q.3 If you are struggling with a suspect in trying to get them under control and there are a number of bystanders, what does the law say you can do?

 

Ask the bystanders to help you.

 

Demand that the bystanders help you.

 

Demand the bystanders call the police.

 

 

Q.4 Under what conditions may "reasonable force" be used against a suspect?

 

Protection of self.

 

Protection of others

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To overcome suspect resistance

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Any of the above

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Q.5 Some employers may want their security personnel to be more proactive as long as they stay within the parameters of what is lawful regarding private person's (citizen's) arrest.

 

TRUE

 

FALSE

 

 

Q.6 Which of the following is NOT true?

 

It is important for security professionals to understand that "Guilt by association," or by just being there, is not a lawful reason to make arrests or to assume involvement.

 

If two people are in a store and one puts an item into their pocket to steal it, both people can be arrested.

 

Another simple example of guilt by association is when two people enter a store and one puts a watch in their pocket without paying for it and tries to leave the store. The other person can't be arrested on suspicion of shoplifting.

 

Arrests must be based on evidence.