218 Rapid Response To Active Threats

Question 1

Officers formed as an organized team that is tasked with locating, confining, and/or neutralizing the active threat is known as what?

Answer 1

Contacting team

Question 2

Target-specific, purpose, controlled, and sustained fire that is directed at a suspect, whom the officer may not be able to direct directly observe, who has caused or imminently threatens to cause death or great bodily harm to citizens or officers is known as what?

Answer 2

Directed fire

Question 3

This refers to firing of a weapon whose projectile is fired directly at target within the line-of-site of the user.

Answer 3

Line-of-sight fire

Question 4

The act of multiple armed law-enforcement elements establishing positive communication in identification, as they join to become one operational element is known as what?

Answer 4

Link up operations

Question 5

A team of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and police that operate in the warm zone to triage patients, provide care, and coordinate casualty evacuation is known as what?

Answer 5

Rescue task force

Question 6

The officer or supervisor responsible for the management, communication, and coordination of all contact teams and rescue task forces inside the warm zone in hot zone during an active threat event is known as what?

Answer 6

Tactical

Question 7

An area in the perimeter where security measures are in place is known as what?

Answer 7

Warm zone

Question 8

Upon arrival at the crisis site, officers shall conduct the following:

A. Advise the police dispatcher arriving at the scene.

B. Assess the situation and determine if an immediate deployment into the crisis area is necessary to stop the suspect or if it is best to wait for additional back up officers.. stimulus supporting in immediate deployment would include gunfire, people screaming, information on the location of the suspect, or individuals inside the crisis in need of immediate medical attention. Supervisor approval is not needed to deploy into crisis site;

C. If the decision is made to enter the site as a single officer, be aware of the elevated risk of this tactic, as the ability to maintain security is diminished

D. Prior to initiating a response, advise the police dispatcher in responding officers when entering the site and provide ingress location location information; and

E. Consider the need for any additional equipment to aid with breaking a barricaded door (i.e.., sledgehammer, Halligan tool, vehicle, etc.) and coordinate the deployment of this equipment for use at the crisis site.

Question 9

If moving as a team of two or more officers, what technique should you use to reach the breach point?

Answer 9

The bounding/overwatch technique

Question 10

When utilizing a bounding/overwatch technique, what is the maximum realistic number of officers to use due to the difficulty of coordination in larger numbers?

Answer 10

Five

Question 11

If a suspect throws an IED at an officer, the energy propelling the device will determine the appropriate tactic. The device 15 or more feet away from, you should seat cover, and utilize what command?

Answer 11

“ bomb cover”

Question 12

If the device will land within 15 feet of officers, you should move quickly past the device and prepare to engage the suspect utilizing what call?

Answer 12

“ bomb go”

Question 13

Adherence to and the completion of the five C’s will ensure the most effective response if this situation changes to a traditional barricade/hostage incident:

What are the five C’s?

Answer 13

Contain

Control

Communicate

Call SWAT

Create

Question 14

Tactical situation

Contain - contain the incident by deploying officers around the immediate crisis location and begin gathering intelligence;

Control - control the incident by establishing ingress and egress routes to the immediate crisis location, remove any uninvolved personnel

Communicate - communicate the situation with other officers in the immediate area, with the suspect if he/she tries to initiate contact, with the on-scene supervisor, police dispatcher, etc.

Call SWAT - advise the on-scene supervisor of a possible hostage situation so we request for the swat unit; and

Create - create a plan among the officers in the immediate area accounting for the following contingencies:

1. If the situation turns into an active threat, who will make entry, etc.;
2. If hostage escapes; and
3. If the suspect surrenders or escapes.

Question 15

Who shall assume the primary role upon arriving on the scene of an incident involving an active threat?

Answer 15

SWAT personnel

Question 16

A task force consisting of 2 to 4 police officers and two EMS personnel entering a warm zone to provide rapid medical care and evacuate victims to a casualty collection point, transportation exchange point, or ambulance exchange point is known as what?

Answer 16

Deploying rescue task force

Question 17

Active threat, methodology and response protocols are continually evolving, so an annual review of this policy and training needs shall be conducted by who?

Answer 17

The chief of patrol, or designee