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Blackstone's Police Q&As 2012 are essential revision tools for all police officers sitting the OSPRE Part 1 promotion examinations. Written in partnership with the best-selling Blackstone's Police Manuals, the only study guides endorsed by the National Policing Improvement Agency, the Q&As' experienced author team follow subjects in the same sequence as the Manuals, providing the most authoritative means of self-testing outside of the Promotion Examinations. Blackstone's Police Q&A: General Police Duties 2012 contains hundreds of multiple-choice questions designed to reinforce knowledge and understanding of the General Police Duties Manual. Matching the format of the promotions examinations, each Question has a detailed and comprehensive Answer that highlights not only the correct response, but also the reasoning behind the incorrect responses, allowing candidates to highlight any gaps or weaknesses in their knowledge. Full cross-references to the relevant Manual paragraphs and Keynotes support more effective studying and a question checklist helps candidates track their progress. The 2012 editions of this popular series contain important updates, reflecting changes to the 2012 versions of the Blackstone's Police Manuals. This new edition on General Police Duties now includes three new chapters on Policing Powers and Powers of Arrest, Stop and Search, and Entry, Search and Seizure, featuring specific questions on the complete PACE Codes of Practice. Other titles in the series are: Crime Q&A 2012, Evidence and Procedure Q&A 2012, and Road Policing Q&A 2012. This product is not endorsed by the NPIA.
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Huw Smart is a serving Chief Inspector and qualified police trainer for South Wales Police. He has several years' experience in writing multiple-choice questions. He is author of Blackstone's Custody Officer's Manual and is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. John Watson is a serving police officer with over 25 year police service and is a qualified police trainer and assessor. He has several years' experience in writing multiple-choice questions that have been successfully used for in-force training.
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FOR THE POLICE MCQ PROMOTION EXAMS
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
Reading this series of Blackstone's 4 `Question and Answer' books for the first time made us realize that they certainly offer a superior coverage of the topics examined for the Sergeants' and Inspectors' Part 1 promotion examinations, and in just the right way for the worried candidate.
Compiled by serving police officers, Huw Smart and John Watson, each of the 4 Q&As offers sound advice right at the beginning on how to approach a Multiple Choice Question (MCQs) and the way in which it may be answered. Correct answers, and an explanation as to the reasons for the correct answers, are also given together with a useful checklist at the back of the book once you have gone through the individual chapters.
Each book should be read in conjunction with the Blackstone's Police Manuals for 2012 (also in 4 volumes). In our view they are cheap at the price and offer the best revision toolkits around for these types of examination. Do read the introduction which dispels the myths about MCQs. Whether MCQs are, actually, `a reliable, valid and fair test of knowledge and understanding across a wide range of subject matter' still remains a matter for debate in some academic quarters.
However, MCQs are here to stay so Smart and Watson have risen to the challenge and produced 4 fine Q&A books which shadow the four Blackstone Manuals covering the following: Volume 1 on "Crime", Volume 2 on "Evidence and Procedure", Volume 3 on "Road Policing" and Volume 4 on "General Police Duties".
In our view, these revision materials balance law and practice well, and are a great investment - better than anything else we have seen. Oxford University Press and Blackstone have made police exam revision all that much easier!
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
Reading this series of Blackstone's 4 `Question and Answer' books for the first time made us realize that they certainly offer a superior coverage of the topics examined for the Sergeants' and Inspectors' Part 1 promotion examinations, and in just the right way for the worried candidate.
Compiled by serving police officers, Huw Smart and John Watson, each of the 4 Q&As offers sound advice right at the beginning on how to approach a Multiple Choice Question (MCQs) and the way in which it may be answered. Correct answers, and an explanation as to the reasons for the correct answers, are also given together with a useful checklist at the back of the book once you have gone through the individual chapters.
Each book should be read in conjunction with the Blackstone's Police Manuals for 2012 (also in 4 volumes). In our view they are cheap at the price and offer the best revision toolkits around for these types of examination. Do read the introduction which dispels the myths about MCQs. Whether MCQs are, actually, `a reliable, valid and fair test of knowledge and understanding across a wide range of subject matter' still remains a matter for debate in some academic quarters.
However, MCQs are here to stay so Smart and Watson have risen to the challenge and produced 4 fine Q&A books which shadow the four Blackstone Manuals covering the following: Volume 1 on "Crime", Volume 2 on "Evidence and Procedure", Volume 3 on "Road Policing" and Volume 4 on "General Police Duties".
In our view, these revision materials balance law and practice well, and are a great investment - better than anything else we have seen. Oxford University Press and Blackstone have made police exam revision all that much easier!
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