More Oral Board Questions

[TEJ1956]

TO ALL

Just a couple of more oral board questions from my oral board today.  
A child asks you "Why do Cops drink Beer?" What do you tell them?
In order of precedence 1 2 and 3 what is your ranking of these statements
Taking a person to jail
Issuing a traffic citiation
Helping a citizen with a problem
Why?
You and your partner arrest a suspect. as your partner cuffs him a wad of about $200 falls to the ground.  Your partner pockets the money and never mentions it again as you book the guy.  What do you do?
You go to a party and the people there start smoking pot what do you do?
I think I gave some good answers.  Just put this out to maybe help someone else later.  Thanks to all who posted earlier that helped me out.  TJ  

[junior]

tj,

here are my thoughts on your questions:
1.taking a person to jail
2.helping a citizen
3.issuing a citation
the reasoning behind my answers are as follows, if a person has done something that warrants them being taken to jail, obviously they have put their welfare as well as the publics in jeopardy.  a very close second is helping out a citizen.  it is one of the most important functions of your job.  thirdly, a citation is important, but not over the other two.  as an officer you should use your good judgement to determine when issuing a citation is necessary.

regarding the money, i would give my partner the benefit of the doubt and assume that he forgot.  i would simply remind him to check the money into evidence.  if he failed to do so or said that he planned on keeping it, i would report it to our immediate supervisor.  the only thing worse than crooks, are cops that are crooks.

regarding the party, i would probably make a call to the station to send somebody over.  depending on the number of people and whether my safety would be in danger, i would identify myself as a police officer, and place them under arrest.  if there were too many i would take mental notes, and play it cool til the calvary arrived.

junior 8)