Rules + Professionalism
8%of exam
Texas Legal Core
17%of exam
Special Populations
7%of exam
Family ViolenceJuvenilesVictimsHuman TraffickingProtective Orders
Traffic + DWI
13%of exam
Traffic StopsCrash ResponseDWISFSTImplied Consent
Patrol + Communication
21%of exam
PatrolReportsRadioTCICCommunity Contact
Force + Response
34%of exam
Quick Facts
- Exam
- Peace Officer
- Questions
- 250
- Time
- 180 min
- Pass
- 70%
- Attempts
- 3
- Window
- 180 days
- Course
- BPOC 1000736
- Hours
- 736
Exam Numbers
250 / 180 / 70 / 3
250 questions180 minutes70 percent3 attempts
Exam Eligibility Picker
- Before academy→Rule 217.1(Minimum standards)
- Course completed→BPOC record(Eligibility proof)
- Scheduling exam→Endorsement(Unexpired)
- Taking exam→Photo ID(PID match)
- Failed once→Retake(No wait)
- Three failures→Repeat BPOC(Rule 219.1)
- Past 180 days→Repeat BPOC(Attempts expire)
- No appointment→Inactive(Two years)
Exam Logistics
- Question count
- 250 items
- Time limit
- 180 minutes
- Passing score
- 70 percent
- Attempts
- Three total
- Attempt window
- 180 days
- Retake wait
- No required wait
- Demo exam
- 15 questions
- Timer
- Never pauses
Licensure Path
- TCOLE
- State standards body
- Academy
- Training provider
- BPOC
- Basic course
- Course number
- 1000736
- Course hours
- 736 minimum
- Endorsement
- Exam eligibility
- Appointment
- Agency activation
- Inactive
- No two-year appointment
Minimum Standards
- Age route
- 21 normal
- Early route
- 18 plus qualifier
- Education
- HS or GED
- Fingerprints
- Required check
- Background
- Required investigation
- Medical
- Fitness declaration
- Psychological
- Fitness declaration
- Family violence
- Disqualifying conviction
Culpable States
I-K-R-N descends blame
IntentionalKnowingRecklessNegligent
RS vs PC
Reasonable Suspicion
- Specific facts
- Temporary detention
- Lower threshold
Probable Cause
- Fair probability
- Arrest/search basis
- Higher threshold
Detain vs arrest
Penal Code
- Capital felony
- Highest felony
- First degree
- 5-99 or life
- Second degree
- 2-20 years
- Third degree
- 2-10 years
- State jail
- 180 days-2 years
- Class A
- 1 year, $4000
- Class B
- 180 days, $2000
- Class C
- $500 fine
Defense vs Affirmative
Defense
- Raised by evidence
- State disproves
- Reasonable doubt
Affirmative
- Defendant burden
- Preponderance
- Express label
Who proves matters
Culpability
- Intentional
- Conscious objective
- Knowing
- Aware conduct/result
- Reckless
- Conscious risk disregard
- Negligent
- Should perceive risk
- Element
- Required proof part
- Defense
- State disproves
- Affirmative
- Defendant proves
- Justification
- Conduct legally excused
Search vs Frisk
Search
- Evidence purpose
- PC/warrant
- Broader scope
Frisk
- Weapon safety
- RS armed
- Outer clothing
Evidence vs safety
CCP + Warrants
- RS
- Specific facts
- PC
- Fair probability
- Terry stop
- Brief detention
- Frisk
- Weapon pat-down
- Arrest warrant
- Person seizure
- Search warrant
- Place/items search
- Magistrate
- Neutral issuer
- Particularity
- Specific place/items
Robbery vs Burglary
Robbery
- Theft plus force
- Person offense
- Threat/injury
Burglary
- Entry offense
- Building/habitation
- Intent inside
Force vs entry
Constitutional Law
- First
- Speech limits
- Fourth
- Search/seizure
- Fifth
- Self-incrimination
- Sixth
- Counsel rights
- Fourteenth
- Due process
- Miranda
- Custody plus interrogation
- Exclusion
- Suppression remedy
- Equal protection
- No biased enforcement
Special Victims
- Family violence
- Household/dating harm
- Predominant aggressor
- Primary actor
- Protective order
- Court restrictions
- Child abuse
- Mandatory response
- Juvenile
- Special custody rules
- Trafficking
- Exploitation indicators
- Victim rights
- Notice/referral duties
- Trauma informed
- Reduce re-trauma
DWI vs PI
DWI
- Operating vehicle
- Public place
- Intoxicated
PI
- Public place
- May endanger
- No driving
Operate vs appear
Traffic + DWI
- Traffic stop
- RS or PC
- Citation
- Promise to appear
- Custody arrest
- Legal detention
- Crash scene
- Safety first
- CR-3
- Crash report
- DWI
- Intoxicated operation
- BAC
- 0.08 per se
- SFST
- Standardized tests
Procedural Justice
Voice Neutrality Respect Trust
VoiceNeutralityRespectTrustworthy motives
Patrol Communications
- Patrol
- Prevent/detect/respond
- Field notes
- Memory anchor
- Report
- Prosecutor-ready record
- Radio
- Clear concise traffic
- TCIC
- Texas records
- TLETS
- Justice network
- Procedural justice
- Voice neutrality respect
- Community policing
- Partnership problem-solving
HazMat RAIN
Recognize Avoid Isolate Notify
RecognizeAvoidIsolateNotify
Interview vs Interrogation
Interview
- Information seeking
- Open questions
- Nonaccusatory
Interrogation
- Likely incriminating
- Custody triggers
- Miranda issue
Gather vs accuse
Field Response Picker
- Unknown scene→Scene safety(Stabilize first)
- Volatile subject→De-escalation(Time distance)
- Assault risk→Force options(Objective facts)
- Arrest made→Search incident(Safety/evidence)
- Crime scene→Secure perimeter(Prevent contamination)
- Wet blood→Air dry(Package later)
- HazMat clue→RAIN(Notify specialists)
- Active attack→ALERRT(Stop threat)
Force + Control
- Reasonable force
- Objective facts
- Deadly force
- Death/SBI risk
- De-escalation
- Time distance cover
- Force options
- Situation matched
- Handcuffing
- Control restraint
- Search incident
- Arrest safety
- Transport
- Secure monitor
- Intervention
- Stop misconduct
Direct vs Circumstantial
Direct
- No inference
- Eyewitness/video
- Fact proves fact
Circumstantial
- Inference needed
- Prints/motive
- Can convict
Inference separates
Investigations + Evidence
- Scene security
- Control access
- Chain custody
- Document transfers
- Direct evidence
- No inference
- Circumstantial
- Inference required
- Corpus delicti
- Crime occurred
- Interview
- Information gathering
- Interrogation
- Accusatory questioning
- Forfeiture
- Seize criminal proceeds
Emergency Response
- Scene safety
- First priority
- ABC
- Airway breathing circulation
- Bleeding
- Control immediately
- Shock
- Perfusion failure
- HazMat
- Isolate deny entry
- RAIN
- Recognize avoid isolate notify
- ICS
- Incident command
- ALERRT
- Active attack response
Common Traps
Course vs exam
BPOC trains ≠ TCOLE licenses
180 days vs minutes
180 days eligibility ≠ 180 minutes testing
RS vs PC
RS detains ≠ PC arrests
Custody vs interrogation
Custody alone insufficient ≠ Both trigger Miranda
Defense burdens
Defense state disproves ≠ Affirmative defendant proves
DWI vs PI
DWI requires operation ≠ PI requires endangerment
Search vs inventory
Search seeks evidence ≠ Inventory protects property
Direct vs circumstantial
Direct needs none ≠ Circumstantial needs inference
Last Minute
- 1.Exam: 250, 180, 70%
- 2.Three attempts, 180 days
- 3.BPOC 1000736: 736 hours
- 4.Rule 217.1 minimum standards
- 5.RS detains; PC arrests
- 6.Miranda = custody plus interrogation
- 7.Search warrant needs particularity
- 8.Defense vs affirmative burden
- 9.DWI needs operation
- 10.Scene safety first
- 11.Evidence chain never breaks
- 12.RAIN: recognize avoid isolate notify
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