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Quick Facts
- Exam
- AZPOST Comprehensive Exam (CE)
- Format
- Sections across three modules
- Pass
- 70% per section
- Scoring
- Each section scored separately
- Retake
- One, within 7 days
- Second fail
- Repeat the whole academy
- Scenarios
- Pass/fail, one remedial
- Content areas
- 8 areas, 60 topics
- Weights
- Not published
- Items and time
- Not published
- Curriculum
- 672 hours, 200+ lessons
- Blueprint rule
- R13-4-116, May 2025
CE Rule: 70-7-1
Seventy percent, seven days, one retake
70% per section7-day retake window1 retake only
CE vs CFE
CE, current
- Sections, scored separately
- Retake within seven days
- One retake only
CFE, retired
- Three blocks
- Second retake within 60 days
- Replaced September 5, 2025
Current rule says CE
CE Failure Path
- Fail a CE section→Retake once(Within seven days)
- Still appointed or enrolled→Retake allowed
- No longer appointed→No retake
- Fail the retake→Repeat academy(Only route left)
- Fail a scenario→Remedial scenario(Immediately, same skill)
- Fail the remedial scenario→Repeat academy
AZPOST Rule Map
- A.R.S. 41-1822
- Board sets standards
- R13-4-103
- Certified status mandatory
- R13-4-105
- Minimum qualifications
- R13-4-110
- Basic training, CE
- R13-4-111
- Annual retention
- R13-4-116
- Academy, eight areas
- Elected sheriff
- Exempt from certification
- Categories
- Full-authority, specialty only
Open Enrollee vs Appointed
Open enrollee
- No agency sponsor
- One year to appointment
- Admitted under R13-4-116(K)
Appointed recruit
- Agency appoints first
- Agency sponsors the seat
Both sit the same CE
Certification Route Picker
- Agency appoints you→Academy as recruit
- No agency yet→Open enrollment academy(One year to appoint)
- Out-of-state officer→Waiver testing(Agency must apply)
- Federal academy graduate→Waiver testing(One year experience)
- Certification lapsed→Waiver testing(Pass all CE sections)
- Open enrollee, over three years→Repeat academy
CE Mechanics
- Sections
- Each scored separately
- Pass mark
- 70% on each
- Delivery
- Intervals through the course
- Last section
- Final two weeks
- Retake
- Within seven days
- Retake condition
- Still appointed or enrolled
- Retake failure
- Repeat the academy
- Specialty officer
- Only relevant CE sections
Minimum Qualifications
- Citizenship
- United States citizen
- Age
- 21, or before graduating
- Education
- Diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Felony conviction
- Automatic disqualifier
- Discharge
- No dishonorable discharge
- Marijuana
- None within two years
- Marijuana as officer
- Never
- Hard drugs
- None within seven years
- Lifetime drug uses
- Five combined maximum
- Drug use after 21
- One time maximum
- Prescription abuse
- No pattern
- Polygraph
- Required unless prohibited
- Medical exam
- Within one year
- Traffic record
- No three-year disrespect pattern
- Code of ethics
- Read and signed
Annual Retention
- Training
- 12 hours each year
- Clock start
- January 1 after certification
- Firearms
- Board-prescribed qualification course
- Target ID
- Judgment course annually
- Open enrollee
- Appointment within one year
- One to three years
- Retake CE plus proficiencies
- Over three years
- Repeat the academy
- Course rejection
- Board may reject content
Mental States: IKRC
Intent, Knowledge, Recklessness, Criminal negligence
I = objectiveK = awareR = disregards riskCN = fails to perceive
Recklessly vs Criminal Negligence
Recklessly
- Aware of the risk
- Consciously disregards it
Criminal negligence
- Fails to perceive risk
- Same gross deviation test
Awareness is the divider
Warrantless Arrest Picker
- Felony, probable cause→Arrest(No presence needed)
- Misdemeanor in your presence→Arrest(13-3883(A)(2))
- Misdemeanor, not in presence→Arrest, cite release(13-3883(A)(4))
- Criminal traffic after crash→Arrest(13-3883(A)(3))
- DV with injury or weapon→Mandatory arrest(No cite release)
- Juvenile felony-level act→Temporary custody(8-303(D))
- Mental disorder, danger→36-525 custody(Transport to screening)
Culpable Mental States
- Intentionally
- Objective to cause result
- Knowingly
- Aware of conduct or circumstance
- Recklessly
- Aware, consciously disregards risk
- Criminal negligence
- Fails to perceive risk
- Both risk tests
- Gross deviation required
- Voluntary intoxication
- Still counts as reckless
Force Test: N-P-L
Necessary, Purpose known, Lawful arrest
Necessary right nowPurpose made knownLawful arrest believed
13-409 vs 13-410
13-409 force
- Three conditions together
- Immediately necessary to arrest
13-410 deadly
- Subsection C governs officers
- Deadly weapon felony or escape
409 authorizes, 410 limits
Warrantless Arrest, 13-3883
- (A)(1) felony
- Probable cause, no presence
- (A)(2) misdemeanor
- Committed in officer presence
- (A)(3) traffic crash
- Criminal Title 28 violation
- (A)(4) misdemeanor
- Any, release eligible
- (A)(5)
- Removability clause, preempted 2012
- 13-3903
- Notice to appear release
- Listed offenses
- Fingerprint before release
Theft Ladder Anchors
One, four, twenty-five thousand
$1,000 = class 6$4,000 = class 3$25,000 = class 2
Use of Force
- 13-409
- Force in arrest, detention
- Condition one
- Force immediately necessary
- Condition two
- Purpose known or unknowable
- Condition three
- Arrest believed lawful
- 13-410(A)
- Threatened deadly force
- 13-410(C)
- Officer deadly force
- 13-410(D)
- Threaten to protect self
- All three
- Must exist together
Theft Class Ladder
- $25,000 and up
- Class 2 felony
- $4,000 to $24,999
- Class 3 felony
- $3,000 to $3,999
- Class 4 felony
- $2,000 to $2,999
- Class 5 felony
- $1,000 to $1,999
- Class 6 felony
- Under $1,000
- Class 1 misdemeanor
- Taken from a person
- Class 6 felony
- Firearm or fighting animal
- Class 6 felony
- Engine or transmission
- Class 4 always
DV Shall-Arrest Trigger
Injury or weapon, age fifteen, arrest
Physical injuryDeadly weapon exhibitedAt least fifteenUnless victim protected
DV May Arrest vs Shall
May arrest
- Any DV probable cause
- Felony or misdemeanor
Shall arrest
- Physical injury inflicted
- Or deadly weapon exhibited
- Person at least fifteen
Injury or weapon compels arrest
DV Firearm Decision
- Firearm in plain view→May seize(Risk must exist)
- Found by consent search→May seize
- No serious injury risk→Leave the firearm
- Firearm owned by victim→Leave it(Unless both offended)
- Firearm seized→Hold 72 hours(Give itemized receipt)
- Before releasing it→Notify the victim
- Return may endanger→Prosecutor files notice(Six months maximum)
Domestic Violence Duties
- May arrest
- Any DV probable cause
- Shall arrest
- Injury or deadly weapon
- Age floor
- At least fifteen
- Only exception
- Victim otherwise protected
- Dual arrest
- Both independently offended
- Self-defense
- Not domestic violence
- Cite release
- Unavailable for DV arrests
- Firearm seizure
- Plain view or consent
- Firearm hold
- At least 72 hours
- Receipt
- Serial or identifying number
- Before release
- Notify the victim
- Prosecutor notice
- Retain up to six months
- Return hearing
- Within ten days
- Minor present
- Child welfare check
- Written notice
- Procedures and resources
Civil Dispute vs Domestic
Civil dispute
- Court remedy applies
- Keep the peace
Domestic violence
- Arrest authority applies
- Mandatory when injured
Civil has no arrest hook
Orders of Protection
- Unserved
- Expires after one year
- Effective
- On service of order
- Duration
- Two years after service
- Modified order
- Runs from initial service
- Service return
- Filed within 72 hours
- Repository
- Arizona Supreme Court
Stops and Detention
- 13-2412
- True full name only
- Advisement first
- Refusal is unlawful
- Refusal
- Class 2 misdemeanor
- Other questions
- Cannot be compelled
- Miranda
- Custody plus interrogation
- Volunteered statement
- Not interrogation
- 8-303(C)
- Juvenile custody discretionary
- 8-303(D)
- Juvenile custody mandatory
- Juvenile after custody
- Notify parent, juvenile Miranda
- 36-525
- Mental health custody
DUI Number Line
Oh four, oh eight, fifteen, twenty
0.04 commercial0.08 standard0.15 extreme0.20 super extreme
DUI vs Extreme DUI
28-1381
- Impairment or 0.08
- Class 1 misdemeanor
28-1382
- 0.15 or higher
- 30 or 45 days
The number drives it
DUI Charge Picker
- Impaired to slightest degree→28-1381(A)(1)(No number needed)
- 0.08 within two hours→28-1381(A)(2)(Per se)
- Drug or metabolite present→28-1381(A)(3)(Prescription defense)
- CDL vehicle at 0.04→28-1381(A)(4)
- Vehicle for hire, 0.04→28-1381(A)(5)
- 0.15 up to 0.20→28-1382(A)(1)(Extreme, 30 days)
- 0.20 or more→28-1382(A)(2)(Super extreme, 45 days)
Arizona DUI Thresholds
- 28-1381(A)(1)
- Impaired to slightest degree
- 28-1381(A)(2)
- 0.08 within two hours
- 28-1381(A)(3)
- Any drug or metabolite
- 28-1381(A)(4)
- CDL vehicle, 0.04
- 28-1381(A)(5)
- Vehicle for hire, 0.04
- Extreme DUI
- 0.15 up to 0.20
- Super extreme
- 0.20 or more
- DUI class
- Class 1 misdemeanor
- Valid prescription
- Defense to (A)(3)
DUI Jail Minimums
- Extreme, first
- 30 consecutive days
- Super extreme, first
- 45 consecutive days
- Probation
- Only if fully served
- Extreme fine
- At least $250
- Super extreme fine
- At least $500
- Prior lookback
- Priors within 36 months
Implied Consent, 28-1321
- Refusal
- 12-month suspension
- Second refusal
- Two years within 84 months
- Not expressly agreeing
- Counts as refusal
- Not completing test
- Counts as refusal
- Over the limit
- 90-day suspension minimum
- Under 21
- Any spirituous liquor
- Reinstatement
- Requires drug, alcohol screening
Crash Scene Duties
- 28-661
- Stop and remain
- 28-663
- Name, address, registration
- License
- Exhibit on request
- Assistance
- Render reasonable assistance
- Death or serious injury
- Class 3 felony
- Driver caused it
- Class 2 felony
- Other injury
- Class 5 felony
- Sentences
- Run consecutively
Latent vs Rolled Prints
Latent
- Left unintentionally
- Must be developed
Rolled
- Taken deliberately
- From a known person
Latent found, rolled taken
Evidence + Crime Scene
- Chain of custody
- Continuity to courtroom
- Marking
- Identify each item
- Packaging
- Preserve for identification
- Gap in continuity
- Admissibility problem
- Preliminary tasks
- Protect, identify, search, sketch
- Notes
- Recorded and preserved
- First minutes
- Lost evidence rarely recovered
Investigation Blocks
- Fingerprinting
- Develop and preserve
- Latent print
- Left unintentionally
- Rolled impression
- Taken from known person
- Death investigation
- Includes SIDS cases
- Manner of death
- Medical examiner decides
- Narcotics
- 13-3401 defined drugs
- Gang member
- Two of seven criteria
- Interviewing
- Rights and legal limits
Victim Rights Duties
- Source
- Arizona Constitution, Article 2.1
- Timing
- As soon as contactable
- Without interfering
- Investigation or arrest
- Forms
- Request or waive rights
- Representative
- Victim may designate
- Thirty-day line
- Call for case status
- Forensic exam cost
- Paid by the county
- DV cases
- 13-3601 procedures given
Community Policing
- Community policing
- Partnerships and problem solving
- Traditional policing
- Call-by-call response
- Cultural awareness
- Perception shapes interpretation
- Communication
- Language and non-language factors
- Role playing
- Elderly, visually impaired, non-English
- Victimology
- Curriculum topic
- Crime prevention
- Curriculum topic
Report Writing Standard
- Standard
- Demonstrated proficiency, not score
- Narrative
- Complete, descriptive, accurate
- Field notes
- Raw material for report
- Conclusions
- Separate proper from improper
- Coverage
- Form, style, and procedure
Firearms: 40-200-170
Forty shots, two hundred max, one seventy
40 rounds fired200 maximum score170 to pass
PAT vs POPAT
PAT, current
- Pass or fail
- 2:06 or less
- Nine continuous tasks
POPAT, legacy
- 384-point minimum
- Separately scored events
- Some agencies still use
Graduation now uses PAT
Firearms Qualification
- Course
- 40-shot daytime or nighttime
- Targets
- TQ-19 or TQ-21
- Maximum score
- 200
- Minimum to pass
- 170
- Hit in scoring area
- Five points
- Silhouette, outside area
- Zero points
- Qualification year
- January 1 to December 31
- Weapon change
- Requalify on new weapon
- Negligent discharge
- Disqualifies the shooter
- Empty gun
- Not an alibi
- Nighttime reloads
- Done in total darkness
- Stage order
- May not be rearranged
Physical Ability Test
- Standard
- 2:06 or less
- Scoring
- Pass or fail
- Course length
- 870 feet
- Tasks
- Nine continuous job tasks
- Drag weight
- 150 pounds
- Fence
- Four-foot chain link
- Assistance
- None permitted
- Requirement
- Needed to graduate
Target ID Course
- Scoring
- Pass or fail only
- Block minimum
- Three scenarios
- Must include
- One shoot, one no-shoot
- Wrong target
- Disqualifies the student
- Failing to fire
- Disqualifies the student
- Frequency
- Required every year
Common Traps
CE is not the CFE
CE, sections, seven-day retake ≠ CFE, blocks, 60-day retake
70% is per section
70% on each section ≠ Not a 70% average
Officer deadly force is 13-410(C)
13-410(C) governs officer use ≠ 13-410(A) covers threatened use
Theft felony line is $1,000
$1,000 starts class 6 ≠ Under $1,000 stays misdemeanor
DV arrest is not always mandatory
Injury or weapon = shall ≠ Otherwise may arrest only
An unserved order expires
Unserved dies at one year ≠ Served runs two years
AZPOST publishes no weights
Eight areas, no percentages ≠ Any weight chart is invented
Curriculum is 672 hours
672 hours is current ≠ 585 hours is legacy
Name only, not answers
Must give true full name ≠ Cannot compel other answers
PAT is not POPAT
PAT is pass/fail 2:06 ≠ POPAT scores toward 384
Refusal is more than saying no
Not expressly agreeing is refusal ≠ Not completing is refusal
Bias is not a separate crime
Aggravator at sentencing ≠ Charge the underlying offense
Felony arrest needs no presence
Felony needs probable cause ≠ Presence limits (A)(2) only
Last Minute
- 1.70% each CE section, scored separately
- 2.One retake, within seven days
- 3.Fail the retake = repeat academy
- 4.Eight content areas, 60 topics
- 5.Weights not published; never guess
- 6.Felony arrest needs no presence
- 7.Force test: necessary, purpose, lawful
- 8.Officer deadly force = 13-410(C)
- 9.Theft felony starts at $1,000
- 10.DV injury or weapon = shall arrest
- 11.Hold seized DV firearm 72 hours
- 12.Order unserved one year = expired
- 13.Name only under A.R.S. 13-2412
- 14.Miranda = custody plus interrogation
- 15.DUI per se = 0.08
- 16.Extreme 0.15, super extreme 0.20
- 17.Refusal = 12 months suspended
- 18.Firearms: 170 of 200 minimum
- 19.PAT = 2:06, pass/fail
- 20.Annual: 12 hours plus firearms
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