600-05 Special Threat Situations Flashcards
What shall dispatchers do when informed of a special threat situation?
Direct supervisors to the scene and inform the command center with all available information
Who is included in a primary team to a special threat situation:
A)
B) tactical operations divisions including SWAT Detail and HNT
C) Special Operations Division
A) patrol officers and supervisors
What is the patrol officer’s responsibility in a special threat situation?
A) notify dispatch of a possible special threat.
B) confine suspect too smallest area possible
C) determine if contact with the suspect by phone is possible. Officers shall not use face-to-face communication with armed suspects without prior approval from the operational commander or HNT coordinator.
Additional responsibility of patrol officers on special threat situations
D) maintain communication with suspect only if it stabilizes the situation. Avoid contact with a suspect who refuses to communicate.
E) stabilize the emotionally distraught suspect.
How should an officer stabilized a distraught suspect?
1) communicate by telephone
2) express willingness to help through positive statements. Do not threaten or intermediate
3) do not beg our plead
4) do not agree to demands
5) do not allow any non LE personnel or family to communicate without prior approval from operational command or HNT
What information needs to be relayed to dispatch via MCD or telephone as soon as it becomes available?
1) Description of the suspect and any weapons
2) location and number of hostages
3) possible avenues of escape
4) safe routes and locations to where additional units should respond.
The officer should remain at the scene until released by ______
The operational commander
The officer may be relieved by the on scene supervisor if
A) The supervisor confirms that the ori is complete of all details up until the Tac Opps Division personnel arrived
B) the supervisor has assigned another officer to replace the original officer
Patrol supervisors responsibility
A) confirm threat excists, notify command center, provide a direct number to on scene supervisor
B) give dispatch pertinent information
C) establish and supervise a moralization point to which all patrol personnel shall report.
D) provide operational command a diagram of the outer perimeter showing the radio numbers and locations of all patrol units along the perimeter
E) complete significant event report upon conclusion of the incident and send to command center.
Patrol commander or duty lieutenant responsibilities
A) go to scene and assume overall command until relieved by operational commander
B) ensure portal officers man outer perimeter until replaced by tac opps officers or special opps officers
C) ensure and establish a command post and press information center
D) ensure citywide radio channel is used to establish comma with tac opps and personnel responding to the scene.
Operational commander
Shall be highest racking officer in homeland security commands chain of command at the scene
Who can the operational commander be?
A)Assistant Cheif of homeland security command
B) captain of tactical operations division
C) a designee
The operational commander shall
A)Assume overall command on arrival to determine which containment and assist tactics to use.
B) obtain maps and floor plans for swat.
C) gather all Intel for swat and HNT
D) determine if Homicide shall conduct an on scene investigation
E) call on any other resource to successfully conclude the operation.
Who can order the planned discharge of firearms once the inner perimeter is manned by swat?
Operational commander
Who shall provide the commander with a critique of the completed operation?
The operational commander
