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Question 1

ICAT

Answer 1

Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics

Question 2

ICAT Goal

Answer 2

-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.

Question 3

Key Principles of the Critical Decision-making model (CDM)

Answer 3

• Police ethics
• The values of police agency
• proportionality
• The sanctity of human life

Question 4

Five step of the CDM

Answer 4

-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

Question 5

Benefits of the CDM

Answer 5

-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.

Question 6

behavioral crisis

Answer 6

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