Administrative Procedures
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Interpersonal Perspectives
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Technical Studies
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Skill Development
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Quick Facts
- Exam
- MPOLE
- Program
- Missouri DPS POST
- Pass
- 70% correct
- Items
- Not published
- Time
- Not published
- Score window
- 120 days after applying
- Retake
- Within 30 days
- Class A
- 16 assessment points
- Class B
- 10 assessment points
- Academy
- 600 hours, Class A
Curriculum Order
A-L-I-T-S: 3, 77, 60, 242, 218
Administrative: 3 hoursLegal: 77 hoursInterpersonal: 60 hoursTechnical: 242 hoursSkill: 218 hours
Class A vs Class B
Class A
- 16 points minimum
- 600-hour academy
- Five counties and St. Louis
Class B
- 10 points minimum
- 480-hour academy
- Other Missouri agencies
Points set the class
License Path Picker
- Untrained new applicant→Class A recruit course(600 hours)
- Smaller agency commission→Class B recruit course(480 hours)
- Reserve officer role→Class R course(No MPOLE)
- Out-of-state academy→Request POST recognition(11 CSR 75-13.070)
- Training over five years→Veteran Point Scale(11 CSR 75-13.060)
- License expired five years→Apply as new(11 CSR 75-13.040)
- Class R upgrading→Upgrade within three years
Curriculum Blocks
- Administrative Procedures
- 3 hours
- Legal Studies
- 77 hours
- Interpersonal Perspectives
- 60 hours
- Technical Studies
- 242 hours
- Skill Development
- 218 hours
- Class A total
- 600 hoursClass A
MPOLE Numbers
70 score | 120 apply | 30 retake
70% qualifying score120 days after applying30 days to retake16 points = Class A
MPOLE vs Academy Exams
MPOLE
- State licensing exam
- 70% qualifying score
- Retake within 30 days
Academy exams
- Graded 0 to 100
- 70% each and overall
- One retake, capped 70%
License versus graduation
Retake Path
- Scored below 70%→Failure, director decides
- First failure→Retake within 30 days
- Second failure→Retake within 30 days
- Third failure→Wait one year(Or graduate academy)
- Missed 30-day window→Wait one year(Or graduate academy)
- Disqualified by director→No MPOLE allowed
License Classes
- Class A
- Any commission except MSHP, Conservation
- Class A-HP
- Any commission except Conservation
- Class A-CC
- Conservation Commission only
- Class B
- Excludes charter counties, MSHP, Conservation
- Class C
- Third class county only
- Class D
- Reserve, large charter counties
- Class R
- Reserve, direct supervision only
- Class S
- Continued licensure only
Basic Training Hours
- Class A
- 600 hours
- Class A-HP
- 1,000 hours
- Class A-CC
- 1,000 hours
- Class B
- 480 hours
- Class C
- 120 hours
- Class R
- 297 hours
- Class S
- 480 hours
- Training hour
- 50 minutes of instruction
Assessment Points
- 600 hours or more
- 14 points
- 470-599 training hours
- 8 points
- 300-469 training hours
- 5 points
- 180-299 training hours
- 3 points
- 120-179 training hours
- 1 point
- Full-time service year
- 1 point
- Reserve service, three years
- 1 point
- Associate degree
- 1 point
- Bachelor's degree
- 2 points
- Master's degree
- 3 points
- Doctorate degree
- 4 points
- 16 education hours yearly
- 1 point
- 32 education hours yearly
- 2 points
- FBI National Academy
- 1 per 100 hours
- Class A minimum
- 16 points
- Class B minimum
- 10 points
MPOLE Exam Rules
- Qualifying score
- 70% correct
- Score window
- 120 days after applying
- First failure
- Retake within 30 days
- Second failure
- Retake within 30 days
- Third failure
- Wait year or reattend academy
- Missed retake window
- Wait year or reattend academy
- Class R and D
- Do not take MPOLE
- Age 20 exception
- Non-commissioned agency employee
- Exam misuse
- Cause to discipline
- Director authority
- Plenary over the MPOLE
Academy Grading Rules
- Each written exam
- 70% minimum
- Overall written score
- 70% minimum
- Firearms practical
- 70% overall score
- Retake cap
- Highest awarded is 70%
- Attendance
- 95% of contact hours
- Makeup deadline
- 12 months after scheduled graduation
- Pass/fail objective
- One reattempt allowed
- MPOLE date notice
- 10 days before course
- License application
- 35 days before graduation
Mental States
Purposely > Knowingly > Recklessly > Negligent
Purposely: conscious objectKnowingly: aware of conductRecklessly: disregards riskNegligent: fails to perceive
Probable Cause vs Suspicion
Probable cause
- Supports arrest
- Supports search warrant
- More than suspicion
Reasonable suspicion
- Supports brief stop
- Frisk for weapons
- Specific articulable facts
Arrest versus brief detention
Constitutional Anchors
- Fourth Amendment
- Searches and seizures
- Fifth Amendment
- Self-incrimination, Miranda
- Sixth Amendment
- Counsel, speedy trial
- Eighth Amendment
- Excessive bail, cruel punishment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Due process, equal protection
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Custodial interrogation warnings
- Terry v. Ohio
- Stop and frisk
- Graham v. Connor
- Objectively reasonable force
- Tennessee v. Garner
- Deadly force limits
Warrant Timing
Ten days: execute and return
Expires after ten daysReturn lists all seizedItemized receipt required
Civil vs Criminal Matter
Civil matter
- Contract or damage dispute
- No criminal elements
- Refer to court
Criminal matter
- Statute elements met
- Required mental state
- Arrest or citation
Damages versus criminal elements
Search Warrant Rules
- Application
- Signed by prosecuting attorney
- Particularity
- Name place and property
- Probable cause
- Sworn supporting facts
- Expiration
- Ten days from application
- Receipt
- Itemized, given to possessor
- Return
- Lists everything seized
- No dollar threshold
- Value never limits listing
Physical vs Deadly Force
Physical force
- Objectively reasonable
- Arrest believed lawful
- No retreat required
Deadly force
- Serious-injury felony
- Escape with weapon
- Immediate danger remains
Reasonable versus last resort
Missouri Offense Classes
- Class A felony
- 10-30 years or life
- Class B felony
- 5-15 years
- Class C felony
- 3-10 years
- Class D felony
- Up to 7 years
- Class E felony
- Up to 4 years
- Class A misdemeanor
- Up to 1 year
- Class B misdemeanor
- Up to 6 months
- Class C misdemeanor
- Up to 15 days
- Class D misdemeanor
- Fine only, no jail
- Infraction
- No jail, $400 maximum
- Felony fine cap
- $10,000 for C, D, E
Culpable Mental States
- Purposely
- Conscious object to act
- Knowingly
- Aware of conduct, circumstances
- Recklessly
- Consciously disregards substantial risk
- Criminal negligence
- Fails to perceive risk
Use of Force Law
- Standard
- Objectively reasonable force
- Totality test
- Facts confronting the officer
- Retreat
- Not required when resisted
- Deadly force
- Felony causing serious injury
- Escape
- Deadly weapon or instrument
- Ongoing danger
- Life endangered without arrest
- Warrantless arrest
- Reasonable grounds within jurisdiction
Domestic Violence Clock
12 hours: same address, arrest
Same address within 12 hoursPrimary aggressor arrestedWrite it up otherwise
Primary vs First Aggressor
Primary aggressor
- Most significant aggressor
- Injuries compared
- History weighed
First aggressor
- Struck first
- Not controlling
- May be the victim
Significance beats sequence
Domestic Violence Response
- Primary aggressor
- Most significant, not first
- Repeat call
- Same address within 12 hours
- Second-call duty
- Arrest is mandatory
- Order violation
- Arrest even if unseen
- No arrest made
- Written documentation required
- Dual arrest threat
- Prohibited to discourage calls
- Aggressor factors
- Injuries, threats, prior history
- Child abuse report
- Immediately to Children's Division
- Child abuse hotline
- 1-800-392-3738
Interpersonal Blocks
- Ethics and Professionalism
- 4 hours
- Domestic Violence
- 32 hours
- Domestic Violence Response
- 26 hours
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- 6 hours
- Human Behavior
- 24 hours
- Tactical Communications
- 8 hours
- Communication Obstacles
- 6 hours
- Cultural Diversity
- 4 hours
- Dealing With Death
- 2 hours
Required Training Topics
- Officer well-being
- Mental and physical health
- Fair, impartial policing
- Implicit bias recognition
- Mental health calls
- Cognitive impairment response
- Tactical training
- De-escalation, crisis management
- Judgment skills
- Critical thinking, social intelligence
DWI Numbers
.08 adult | .02 under 21
.08 percent prima facie.02 percent under 2115 minutes observation20 minutes for attorney
Refusal vs Over Limit
Refusal
- One-year revocation
- 20 minutes for attorney
- Refusal is admissible
Test at .08
- Prima facie evidence
- Chemical test completed
- Administrative suspension follows
Revocation versus evidence
DWI Test Picker
- Arrested for DWI→Request breath test(Implied consent)
- Under 21 stopped→Request chemical test(.02 percent)
- Fatal or serious crash→Chemical test allowed
- Driver asks for lawyer→Allow 20 minutes
- Driver still refuses→Record the refusal(One-year revocation)
- Before breath sample→Observe 15 minutes
- Drugs suspected→Blood or urine test
DWI and Alcohol
- Prima facie BAC
- .08 percent or more
- Under 21 driver
- .02 percent threshold
- Commercial driver
- Any alcohol, out-of-service
- CDL first conviction
- One year disqualification
- Implied consent
- Breath, blood, saliva, urine
- Test limit
- Two tests per stop
- Attorney request
- 20 minutes allowed
- Refusal
- One-year license revocation
- Observation period
- 15 minutes before breath
- Analyzer maintenance
- Every 35 days maximum
- DWI training block
- 24 hours
STARS Report vs None
STARS report
- Injury or death
- $500 damage or more
- Filed within 10 days
No STARS report
- Private property crash
- Below damage threshold
Threshold decides the report
Crash Reporting
- STARS
- Statewide crash records system
- Officer filing
- Within 10 days investigating
- Injury or death
- Report required
- Property damage
- $500 or more
- Private property crash
- Not automatically reportable
- STARS training block
- 6 hours
- Traffic radar block
- 2 hours
Technical Studies Blocks
- Patrol and Jail Management
- 56 hours
- Homeland Security
- 12 hours
- Traffic Accident block
- 38 hours
- Criminal Investigation
- 53 hours
- Crime Scene Investigation
- 46 hours
- Report Writing
- 37 hours
- Juvenile Justice
- 6 hours
- First Responder
- 40 hours
Skill Development Blocks
- Defensive Tactics
- 62 hours
- Firearms
- 66 hours
- Physical Training, Wellbeing
- 34 hours
- Driver Training
- 24 hours
- Practical Applications
- 32 hours
- Use of force scenarios
- 18 hours
- Handcuffing and restraints
- 4 hours
Restraint and Driving
- Handcuffing
- Hands behind the back
- Double lock
- Stops cuffs tightening
- Leg restraints
- Add when necessary
- Emergency lights
- Red or blue, 500 feet
- Emergency siren
- Audible signal required
- Exemption limit
- Never endanger life, property
- Weapons retention
- 8 hours
Common Traps
Points vs score
Points gate eligibility ≠ 70% earns the license
Retake vs wait
30 days after failure ≠ One year after third
Primary vs first
Primary is most significant ≠ Not whoever struck first
Refusal vs test result
Refusal revokes one year ≠ Test result is evidence
Civil vs criminal
Property dispute stays civil ≠ Crime needs statutory elements
Warrant return
All seized items listed ≠ No dollar value cutoff
Class R vs Class A
Class R skips MPOLE ≠ Class A requires MPOLE
STARS coverage
Roadway crashes get reports ≠ Private property not automatic
Last Minute
- 1.Qualifying score = 70% correct
- 2.Score within 120 days of applying
- 3.Failed once = retake within 30 days
- 4.Third failure = one year wait
- 5.Class A needs 16 assessment points
- 6.Class B needs 10 assessment points
- 7.Class A academy = 600 hours
- 8.Class R and D skip MPOLE
- 9.Warrant return lists all seized
- 10.BAC .08 = prima facie evidence
- 11.Test refusal = one-year revocation
- 12.Same address within 12 hours = arrest
- 13.Mental states: purposely knowingly recklessly negligent
- 14.Observe 15 minutes before breath test
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