Defensive Tactics Flashcards
Recite START-IT
What are the 7 elements of the interview stance?
Athletic Stance
Protect Gun Side
Hands Ready
Reactonary Gap
Aware of Subject and their hands
Aware of Enviornment
Aware of target, backstop and what lies beyond
What is the Action/Reaction Principle?
The initiator of an action has an advantage in a contest of time
What is the Distraction Principle?
In times of stress or concentration, the mind tends to focus on one matter or element
What is the Domination Principle?
A person is les likely to commit an act of aggression when they are in an inferior position or circumstance.
What are the 5 levels of control?
- presence
- verbal control
- physical control
- impact weapons
- deadly force
Adequate control is essential…
Do not use less control than is reasonable or necessary
Control Techniques vs Survival Techniques
When standard techniques to regulate a suspect are insufficent to protect an officer or others, officers will employ additional measures to avoid injury or death.
Control is non-competitive
Police Officers should not be put in unreasonable risks, engage in “fair” contests or to personalize an encounter.
Control vs Force
Control is regulating or directing another person
Force is physical contact likely to cause physical injury
Physical Force is part of Control
If force is reasonable to maintain control, then the consequences to an individual are justified.
Custody- the 2 things that must be controlled…
Hands and Balance
Commands- the 2 things that must be controlled…
Hands and Mobility
Takedowns- the 2 things that must be out of alignment…
Hips and Shoulders
What is the first part of our deadly force policy?
To protect themselves or others from what the member reasonably believes is an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury.
What is the second part of our deadly force policy?
To affect the capture or prevent the escape of a suspect where the member has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses and immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the member or others
What is the third part of our deadly force policy?
If tactically feasible, some warning is given.
When can members use force?
When it is objectively reasonable under the totality of the circumstances.
The Bureau expects members:
To develop and display, over the course of their practice of law enforcement, the skills and abilities that allow them to regularly resolve confrontations without resorting to the higher levels of force allowed by the constitutional standard.
Members must not precipitate:
A use of force by placing themselves or others in jeopardy through actions that are inconsistent with training without a substantial justification for variation from recommended practices
What is force?
Any physical coercion used to affect, influence or persuade an individual to comply with an order from an officer. The term shall not include the ordinary handcuffing of an individual who does not resist
What is deescalation?
A deliberate attempt to reduce the necessity or intensity of force to resolve a confrontation.
What is the Dual life value?
Regard for self and others.
What is Ethics?
Moral values in action
What are the 3 Saftey Priorities?
Officer
Citizens
Suspect
What is the body parts to body mass principal?
The officer will have the advantage by using more of their weight and strength against a smaller focused area of the subject.
What is the condensed vs extended strength principal?
The officer will have the advantage by keeping their hands close to their own body rather than giving up leverage by working outside this power box.
What is the circles and angles principal?
The officer will have the advantage by working outside of the subject’s own power box to avoid a contest of strength.
What is the ever-tightening spiral principal?
The officer will have an advantage by concentrating their strength into a focused area rather than wasting it over on overly broad, untargeted movements.
