OPOTA 2022/2023 SPO Study guide 2 Already Passed

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OPOTA 2022/2023 SPO Study guide 2 Already Passed Explain jurisdiction. ✔✔A government's general power to exercise authority over all person's and things within it's territory. -can be exclusiv... e. -enforcement authority granted to only one law enforcement agency at a particular location or on a particular subject matter. -an agency is only one that has the authority to arrest in that area. - can be concurrent. -enforcement authority shared by two or more law enforcement agencies at a particular location or on a particular subject matter. -an agency shares the authority to act with other agencies. Describe the difference between statutory law and case law. ✔✔Statutory law- the body of law derived fro. statutes rather than from constitutions or judicial decisions. Case law- the law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction. Define force. ✔✔Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing. Define deadly force. ✔✔Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will proximately result in the death of any person. Physical harm to persons. ✔✔Any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment, regardless of it's gravity or duration. Serious physical harm to persons. ✔✔Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged [Show More]

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