所有成功完成此证书的学生将获得三十六（36）个学分，ACT 120证书，并有资格开始担任市政警察。成功完成该计划后，学生应能够：•运用警察酌处行为准则。描述个人和专业行为的作用。描述警察的领导特质和技巧。分析警察对自己的情绪和心理问题进行对抗的心理障碍。分析美国和宾夕法尼亚州宪法的规定，这些规定为行使警察权力提供了法律依据。承认宾夕法尼亚州法规中定义犯罪行为的规定。引用《精神健康法》，《防止虐待法》，《酒类控制法》和《犯罪受害者补偿法》的规定。确定《管制物质法》与其执行能力有关的主要规定。将《机动车法规》
All students successfully completing this certificate will earn thirty-six (36) credits, an ACT 120 certificate and be eligible to begin work as a Municipal Police Officer. Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to: Apply principles of police discretionary conduct. Describe the role of personal and professional conduct. Depict police leadership traits and techniques. Analyze psychological barriers to confrontation by police of their own emotional and psychological problems. Analyze the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitution provisions that provide the legal basis for the exercise of police power. Recognize provisions of Pennsylvania statutes that define criminal conduct. Cite provisions of the Mental Health Act, Protection from Abuse Act, Liquor Control Act and Crime Victims Compensation Act. Identify major provisions of the Controlled Substance Act pertinent to their enforcement capacity. Apply appropriate provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code to specific factual situations. Define reportable and non-reportable, traffic and non-traffic motor vehicle collisions. Apply standard accepted principles of police patrol. Delineate Miranda-warning requirements. Define a preliminary investigation. Apply principles of preliminary, crime site and follow-up investigation. Apply principles of interview and interrogation.<br>Differentiate criminal investigation from civil investigation. Identify the impact of role awareness, reference groups and motivation of human behavior. Describe Constitutional and other legal requirements for arresting an individual or taking the individual into custody. Demonstrate procedures required for arrest of individuals and for searches of those taken into custody. Delineate unique problems involved in the detention of mentally ill, emotionally unstable and physically handicapped individuals.<br>Illustrate proper procedures for use of pistols, shotguns and holsters. Operate police vehicles under normal and emergency circumstances. Describe the officer's responsibilities for civil and/or criminal penalty in case of police vehicle accident. Illustrate written reports and note-taking skills. Apply principles of emergency medical care to crisis situations. List emergency medical problems confronted by police officers. Describe various violent and dangerous situations, more particularly those involving domestic disputes, mentally ill individuals and violent criminals. Identify proper procedure to handcuff suspects or prisoners.