New Jersey Police test prep: What should you be studying?
People ask me all the time, ” What should I be studying for my upcoming police promotional exam?”
As we all know, criminal law, guidelines, directives, court cases and management are a great place to start.
More specifically, there are subject matter areas that must be known by modern day police supervisors.
For your convenience, I have listed issues that you must have a working knowledge of, not only for testing purposes but also to apply to your day to day function as a police officer.
If I was a promotional candidate, the below subject matter I would study, highlight, break down into writing and dictate the information into an audio device to listen to repetitively.
Although I retired in 2013, I successfully passed every police promotional exam I was administered and served at every rank including Police Chief.
I train students in the below subject matter areas.
My company also has easy to read breakdowns of the following areas:
Accreditation
Active shooter
Alzheimer’s
Amber Alert
Arrest, search and seizure
Arrestee dependents
Assault weapons
Bias incidents
Bomb threat
Budgets
Bullying (including cyber bullying)
Buy/Bust operations
Child abductions
Community policing
Consent
Crime victim’s rights
Critical incidents
Death notifications
DNA
Domestic violence
Domestic Violence offenses
Drug screening
DV involving an officer
DWI- refusal
EDP handling
Electronic recordation
Emergency/unusual occurrence response
Exceptions to the written warrant requirement
Exclusionary rule
Eyewitness identification
Fingerprint/photo juveniles
Fingerprinting
Gangs
Human trafficking
IA function
ICE
Immediate suspension of a police officer
Incident command system components
Intelligence gathering
Internal affairs
Interstate transportation of firearms
Interview and interrogation
Juvenile procedures
Juveniles taken into custody
K9 sniff (Home vs. MV)
Major incident response
Medical marijuana
Megan’s law
Memorandum of agreement between education and law enforcement
Miranda
Missing persons
MV consent searches
National carry law
NCIC checks
NJ v Witt
Official misconduct
OPRA
Passenger compartment frisks
Performance evaluations
Photo/live lineup
Police computers/body cameras/ on board police vehicle cameras
Probation vs. parole searches
Property/evidence
Protective sweeps
Public information/OPRA/police records
Racial profiling
Regulation of officer’s speech
Retired officers carrying of weapons
Safe haven
SART
School lockdown
School searches
Search incident to arrest/auto exception
Search warrants
Sexual harassment
Sobriety checkpoints
Stress
Strip search
Submission/analysis of firearms
Telephone records
Terrorism
Training
Use of force
Use of force/less lethal ammo
Vehicle pursuit
When a police contact becomes a seizure
Wiretaps
Please contact us any time for professional advice and guidance. We are here to help you.
Regards,
Mark Leonard
Owner
ABN Consulting LLC