AOS Study Flashcards
List the 4 cardinal rules of Firearm safety
- Treat every firearm as loaded
- Point muzzle in a safe direction (laser rule)
- Keep your finder outside the trigger guard until you are on target and have decided to fire.
- Be sure of your target and what is around and behind it.
Define safe direction.
If unintentional discharge occurs, only minimal property damage and NO human injury will result.
Define safety precautions
Whenever you pick up a firearm that has not been in your direct control, the first thing you should do is determine whether or not that is is loaded.
List the 7 basic AOS principles
1: conduct ongoing TENR assessment during the course of an incident
2: It is better to take the matter to seriously than too lightly.
3: Caution is not cowardice.
4:when offenders actions permit focus on de-escalation, communication, and prevention, cordon the area, and adopt a wait and appeal role in order to negotiate a surrender
5: never go unnecessarily into danger. However if offender is acting in a way that makes casualties likely, police must act immediately to prevent this.
6: treat all armed offenders or offenders believed to be armed, as dangerous and hostile unless there is definite evidence to the contrary.
7: Where practical, Police should not use a firearm unless it can be done without endangering other persons.
What is MARCHH
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Recite section 39 CA 1961
Where any person is justified, or protected from criminal responsibility, and executing, or assisting to execute any sentence, warrant, or process, or is making or assisting to make any arrest, that justification or protection shall extend an apply to the use by him of such force as May be necessary to overcome any force used, and resisting such execution or wrist, unless the sentence, warrant, or process can be executed with the rest, made by reasonable means, and a less violent manner.
Provided that, except in the case of a constable, or a person called upon by a constable to a system, the section sure not apply where the force used as intended or likely to cause, death or greatness of bodily harm.
Recite section 40 CA 1961
1: Where any person is lawfully authorised to arrest or assist and arresting any other person, or is justified in or protected from criminal responsibility for arresting, or assisting to arrest any other person, that authority, justification, or protection, as the case, may be, short extent of applied to the use of such force as maybe necessary -
A) To prevent the escape of that other person, if he takes two flights, in order to avoid arrest, or
B) To prevent the escape or rescue of that person after his arrest.
Unless in any such case, the escape risk can be prevented by reasonable means in the least violent manner,
Provided that, except in the case of a constable, or a person called upon by Constable to a system, the subsection shall not apply where the force used as intended or likely to cause, death or grievous bottle, the harm.
2: Where any prisoner of a prison is attempting to escape from lawful custody, or is fleeing, after having escape there from, every constable, and every person called upon by constable to assist him, it’s justified in using such force as maybe necessary to prevent the escape of water, recapture the prisoner, and this, in any case, the escape can be prevented, or the recapture affected by reasonable means in a less violent manner. 
Recite section 41 CA 1961
Everyone is justified in using such force, as may be reasonably necessary, in order to prevent the commission of suicide, or the commission of an offence, which would be likely to cause, immediate and serious injury to the person or property of any one, or an order to prevent any back to being done, which he believes, on reasonable grounds, would, if committed, amount to suicide, or any such offence.
Recite section 48 CA 1961
Everyone is justified in using, and the defence of himself, or another, such force as, in the circumstances, as he believes them to be, it is reasonable to use.
Recite section 62 CA 1961
Everyone authorised by law to use force as criminally, responsible for in excess, according to the nature and quality of the act, the constitutes the excess
Police must only use a fire arm for these lawful purposes. (4)
Defending themselves or others S48 Crimes act 1961:
To defend themselves or others if the fear death or GBH to themselves or others, and
Cannot reasonably protect themselves in a less violent manner.
Arresting an offender S39:
To arrest an offender if tbey,
Believe on reasonable grounds the offender poses a threat of death or GBH in resisting arrest,
The arrest cannot be reasonably affected in a less violent manner,
The arrest cannot be delayed without danger to other people.
Preventing escape S40:
To prevent an offender escaping if,
Police believe on reasonable grounds the offender poses a threat of death or GBH to any person (whether an identifiable individual, or members of the public at large.)
And the offender flees to avoid arrest or escapes after arrest,
And the flight or escape cannot be reasonably prevented in a less violent manner.
Destroying animals:
To destroy animals in circumstances set out in the animals chapter of the police manual.
Section 23 BOR act 1990.
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1) everyone who is arrested or who is detained under any enactment -
A) shall be informed at the time of the arrest or detention the reason for it, and
B) shall have the right to consult and instruct a lawyer without delay and be o formed of that right
C) shall have the right to have the validity of the arrest or detention determined without delay by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the arrest detention is not lawful.
Section 23 BOR act 1990.
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2) everyone who is arrested for an offence has the right to be-
Charged promptly or released
Section 23 BOR act 1990.
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3) everyone who is arrested for an offence and not released -
shall be brought as soon as possible before a court or competent tribunal.
Section 23 BOR act 1990
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4) everyone who is -
A) arrested ; or
B) detained under any enactment-
For any offence or suspected offence shall have the right to refrain from making any statement and to be informed of that right.
