StudiGuide 36: Information Systems for Law Enforcement

Study Guide for the California Police Academy (P.O.S.T.) Written Examination

This StudiGuide course provides a practice review-testing resource for police academy cadets (based on the state of California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standard and Training 'POST' requirements) to help understand and pass the POST written examinations.

RECOGNIZE the requirements of the Department of Justice regarding the confirmation of information obtained from the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) network

RECOGNIZE crimes involving unlawful access or use of a law enforcement computer system

RECOGNIZE requirements for authorized release of Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) based on right-to-know and need-to-know

RECOGNIZE crimes related to the unauthorized release, receipt, or use of CORI including:

• Furnishing the information to an unauthorized person

• Lawfully receiving the information and then furnishing it to an unauthorized person

• Purchase, receipt, or possession of the information by an unauthorized person

IDENTIFY systems and databases available from the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) and the types of information provided

RECOGNIZE the minimum information required for generating an inquiry into each of the CJIS systems and databases

IDENTIFY systems and databases available from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Information System and the types of information provided

RECOGNIZE the minimum information required for generating an inquiry into each of the DMV databases

This is more than likely ALL you will be tested on during this specific written examination.

Selected information from this written examination will also appear on your End-of-Course Proficiency Test.