De-Esclation Flashcards
ICAT
Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics
ICAT Goal
-The critical decision-making model provides officers with an organized way of making decisions about how they will act in any situation, including situations that may involve uses of force.
Key Principles of the Critical Decision-making model (CDM)
- Police ethics
- The values of police agency
- proportionality
- The sanctity of human life
Five step of the CDM
-Step 1: Collect information
-Step 2: Assess situation, threats, and risks
-Step 3: consider police powers and agency policy
-Step 4: Identify options and determine best course of action
-Step 5: Act, review, and re-assess
Benefits of the CDM
-Organize the decision-making process
-Assists officers to make better decisions
-Assists officers in explaining their actions after the incident to provide a structured, rational explanation increasing credibility.
behavioral crisis
an episode of mental and/or emotional distress that is creating instability or danger and is considered disruptive by the community, friends, family or the person him/herself