Defensive Tactics

Question 1

Recite START-IT

Answer 1

Question 2

What are the 7 elements of the interview stance?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is the Action/Reaction Principle?

Answer 3

The initiator of an action has an advantage in a contest of time

Question 4

What is the Distraction Principle?

Answer 4

In times of stress or concentration, the mind tends to focus on one matter or element

Question 5

What is the Domination Principle?

Answer 5

A person is les likely to commit an act of aggression when they are in an inferior position or circumstance.

Question 6

What are the 5 levels of control?

Answer 6

1. presence
2. verbal control
3. physical control
4. impact weapons
5. deadly force

Question 7

Adequate control is essential…

Answer 7

Do not use less control than is reasonable or necessary

Question 8

Control Techniques vs Survival Techniques

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Control is non-competitive

Answer 9

Police Officers should not be put in unreasonable risks, engage in “fair” contests or to personalize an encounter.

Question 10

Control vs Force

Answer 10

Control is regulating or directing another person

Force is physical contact likely to cause physical injury

Question 11

Physical Force is part of Control

Answer 11

If force is reasonable to maintain control, then the consequences to an individual are justified.

Question 12

Custody- the 2 things that must be controlled…

Answer 12

Hands and Balance

Question 13

Commands- the 2 things that must be controlled…

Answer 13

Hands and Mobility

Question 14

Takedowns- the 2 things that must be out of alignment…

Answer 14

Hips and Shoulders

Question 15

What is the first part of our deadly force policy?

Answer 15

To protect themselves or others from what the member reasonably believes is an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury.

Question 16

What is the second part of our deadly force policy?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is the third part of our deadly force policy?

Answer 17

If tactically feasible, some warning is given.

Question 18

When can members use force?

Answer 18

When it is objectively reasonable under the totality of the circumstances.

Question 19

The Bureau expects members:

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Members must not precipitate:

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What is force?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is deescalation?

Answer 22

A deliberate attempt to reduce the necessity or intensity of force to resolve a confrontation.

Question 23

What is the Dual life value?

Answer 23

Regard for self and others.

Question 24

What is Ethics?

Answer 24

Moral values in action

Question 25

What are the 3 Saftey Priorities?

Answer 25

Officer

Citizens

Suspect

Question 26

What is the body parts to body mass principal?

Answer 26

The officer will have the advantage by using more of their weight and strength against a smaller focused area of the subject.

Question 27

What is the condensed vs extended strength principal?

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

What is the circles and angles principal?

Answer 28

The officer will have the advantage by working outside of the subject’s own power box to avoid a contest of strength.

Question 29

What is the ever-tightening spiral principal?

Answer 29

The officer will have an advantage by concentrating their strength into a focused area rather than wasting it over on overly broad, untargeted movements.