StudiGuide 25: Domestic Violence in California

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.

RECALL the definition of domestic violence per Penal Code 13700

RECOGNIZE the crime elements required to arrest a suspect for the following crimes as applied to domestic violence incidents, and RECOGNIZE the crime classification for each crime that may result from a domestic violence incident as a misdemeanor or a felony

• Willful infliction of corporal injury

• Battery

• Stalking

• Malicious destruction of telephone, telegraph, cable television, or electrical lines

• Preventing or dissuading a witness or a victim from testifying

• Criminal threats

• Spousal rape

RECOGNIZE:

• the initial process for responding to a domestic violence call

• under what circumstances an arrest should be made

• procedures for seizing firearms or other deadly weapons

IDENTIFY the differences between the types of court orders to include:

• Criminal protective/stay-away orders

• Emergency Protective Orders

• Restraining orders

IDENTIFY:

• common characteristics of a victim and a batterer

• a peace officer’s role in reducing domestic violence

• physical evidence to be collected

• the validity of a restraining order

• the purpose for obtaining an Emergency Protective Order

• what information needs to be documented in a report

• how the peace officer can provide support for the victim

DEMONSTRATE how to enforce a court order

DISCUSS resources available for victim protection

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