218 Rapid Response To Active Threats Flashcards
Officers formed as an organized team that is tasked with locating, confining, and/or neutralizing the active threat is known as what?
Contact team
Target-specific, purposeful, controlled, and sustained fire that is directed at a suspect, whom the officer may not be able to directly observe, who has caused or imminently threatens to cause death or great bodily harm to citizens or officers is known as what?
Directed fire
This refers to firing of a weapon whose projectile is fired directly at target within the line-of-site of the user.
Line-of-sight fire
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?
Link-up operations
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?
Rescue task force
The officer or supervisor responsible for the management, communication, and coordination of all contact teams and rescue task forces inside the warm zone and hot zone during an active threat event is known as what?
Tactical
An area in the perimeter where security measures are in place is known as what?
Warm zone
If moving as a team of two or more officers, what technique should you use to reach the breach point?
bounding/overwatch technique
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?
Five
If a suspect throws an IED at an officer, the energy propelling the device will determine the appropriate tactic. If the device will stop 15 or more feet away from officers, you should should seek cover and utilize what command?
“ bomb cover”
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?
“ bomb go”
Adherence to and the completion of the five C’s will ensure the most effective response if the situation changes to a traditional barricade/hostage incident:
What are the five C’s?
Contain
Control
Communicate
Call SWAT
Create
Who shall assume the primary role upon arriving on the scene of an incident involving an active threat?
SWAT personnel
A task force consisting of two to four 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?
Deploying rescue task force
Active threat methodology and response protocols are continually evolving, so an annual review of this policy and training needs shall be conducted by who?
Chief of Patrol, or designee
