PCMG Delegado de Polícia study plan

Map the Criminal Law syllabus into a one-page outline covering crimes against the person, property, and public administration, marking the three subtopics you understand least

Write out from memory the constitutional and legal rules on when a crime is considered committed (consummation, attempt, desistance) and check each against the statute

Draft a comparison table distinguishing preventive, flagrant, and investigative arrest, listing the legal prerequisites for each

Solve 20 multiple-choice questions on criminal procedure and log every wrong answer with the rule you missed

Explain aloud, without notes, the rules on search and seizure of persons, homes, and digital devices, including the exceptions that permit action without a warrant

Outline the chain of procedural steps from arrest through indictment, noting the deadline attached to each step

Classify ten hypothetical fact patterns by the crime and the correct procedural path

Review your week-1 error log and re-solve every missed question

Identify the five Portuguese grammar and interpretation topics that appear most often in objective exams and drill each for 30 minutes

Write two practice essays of 30 lines each, applying the formal standard, and self-correct against a checklist of coherence, cohesion, and register

Summarize the fundamental rights most relevant to police work, stating for each its scope and the conditions under which it may be restricted

List the constitutional limits on interrogation, detention, and the use of force, citing the underlying provisions

Explain the hierarchy of human-rights instruments and how international treaties enter domestic law, with two concrete examples

Recite the core principles of criminological schools (classical, positivist, critical) and contrast their views on the causes of crime

Apply routine-activity and rational-choice frameworks to two real cases reported in the press

Complete a timed 40-question mixed set spanning domains 1 through 4 and 7

Describe the standard steps of crime-scene processing and the documentation each step produces

Distinguish the main forensic evidence categories (biological, ballistic, digital, documentary) and state what each can and cannot prove

Solve 20 logical reasoning problems under time pressure, recording your reasoning for each

Compute and interpret basic descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation) from a sample dataset

Outline the principles of administrative law governing police activity, including legality, proportionality, and due process

Summarize the civil-law rules on liability for harm caused by state agents and on contracts most relevant to police procurement

Contrast the main business-law entity types and their liability regimes in a comparison table

Solve 25 mixed questions on administrative and civil law and review every error

Explain the core concepts of police practice and public security, including community policing models and their evidence base

Summarize the environmental-law offenses most likely to arise in police work, with the applicable sanctions

Outline the main tax offenses and the boundary between administrative and criminal tax enforcement

Draft a 20-line operational briefing applying social-science reasoning to a public-security problem

Take two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score both

Re-solve every question missed across the entire preparation, grouping errors by root cause

Recite your condensed summary sheets from memory and correct any gaps

Finalize a one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation and question triage