Officer Safety Flashcards
Justification for discharging your firearm:
You are only justified in discharging your firearm when there is an immediate risk to your life, or the life of someone else, or there is an immediate risk of serious injury to you or someone else and there is no other way of preventing the risk.
Justification for using your handcuffs:
The decision to handcuff rests with you. Officer safety is paramount. Generally, you are justified in handcuffing prisoners only when they have tried to escape, or to prevent escape or injury to themselves or others.
Justification for using your Defensive Spray:
Protection of human life, a less lethal option for controlling people, where violent resistance or confrontation occurs (or is likely to occur), protection against animals.
Justification for using your Baton:
The decision to use your baton rests with you. You may use your baton if in danger of being overpowered or to protect yourself or others from injury. The force used must always be reasonable.
Justification for using Conducted Electrical Weapon: (TASER)
Protect human life, Protect yourself or others where violent confrontation or violent resistance is occurring or imminent, protect an officer/s in danger of being overpowered or to protect themselves or another person from the risk of actual bodily harm, or Protection from animals.
4 General Firearm safety principals [Treat, B, Keep, B]
-Treat all firearms as if they are loaded;
Keep your finger off the trigger and on the receiver until your sights are on the target and you have decided to fire; and
-Be sure of your target. (Know what it is, what is in line with it and what is behind it. Never fire at anything you have not positively identified).
Safe Direction – Definition
A safe direction is a direction in which any unintentionally fired shot, would be safely stopped and contained with no human injury, and at most, only minimal property damage.
What is the ultimate goal in any confrontational situation?
The Ultimate goal of any confrontational situation is CONTROL
The Tactical Options Model provides the 10 Tactical options available for an officer when confronting subject/s. What are the 10 tactical options. TACTICAL OPTIONS MODEL: (TOBACCO WTF and CRAPT)
TOBACCOWTF T – Tactical Disengagement. O – Officer Presence. B – Baton. A – Active Armed Offender Tactics. C – Contain & Negotiate. C – CEW. O – OC Spray. W – Weaponless Control. T – Talking (Communication). F – Firearm. CRAPT Communication Risk assessment Action Plan Take Charge
Glock Definition:
The Glock Pistol is a mechanically locked, recoil operated self-loading pistol, with inbuilt trigger, firing pin and drop safety mechanisms.
Definition of a stoppage:
A stoppage is anything that prevents the pistol from firing, when the user intends that it should fire.
Degrees of Weapon Readiness Operationally, the firearm will be in one of only two conditions. These are: UNLOADED or LOADED. No other condition will be permitted, such as magazine loaded, inserted but with no round chambered.
Loaded: Magazine containing rounds fitted, round in chamber, pistol can be fired. Unloaded: Magazine not fitted, no round in chamber, pistol cannot be fired.
What are the five major parts of the Glock
-Slide -Barrel -Recoil spring assembly -Receiver -Magazine
Functioning Sequence of the Glock Pistol FUEEFLL:
1. FIRING - Of the chambered round
2. UNLOCKING - Of the slide
3. EXTRACTING - the fired case from the chamber
4. EJECTING - The fired case from the pistol
5. FEEDING – A round from the magazine into the chamber
6. LOCKING INTO BATTERY – Round chambered, slide locked fully forward – ready to fire
7. LOCKING OPEN (Last Shot) – Magazine follower engages slide stop lever and locks slide open
The Three function checks after Glock reassembly are:
-Trigger -Trigger reset -Slide Lock
Safety Features The Glock family of pistols are fitted with three separate safety mechanisms, designed to prevent accidental firing in the event of the pistol being dropped or sustaining a heavy impact. The safeties are the:
- Trigger safety; 2. Firing pin safety; and 3. Drop safety.
Glock pistol Standard Operational Ammunition
-Winchester .40 S&W Calibre -165 grain SXT controlled expansion round -Muzzle Velocity 320 m/s
Strike Areas for Baton?
Primary - The leg, from below the hip to the tip of the toes.
Secondary - The arm, from the tip of the fingers to the point of the shoulders
Taser X26P Components
- Cartridge
- Single Laser
- LED flashlight
- Trigger
- Central information display (CID)
- Saftey switch
- Performance Power Maganize (PPM) release button
- Performance Power Magazine (PPM)
- Fixed sights
- Power accessory interface
- Selctor switch
Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) – Criterion to Draw and Cover with CEW (DIA):
D – Don’t draw, point or aim your Taser unless you are likely to be justified in using it.
I – Immediately arm by moving the safety switch to fire if drawing the Taser in order to cover a subject
A – Assess the environment and situation unfolding and where the justification for drawing the Taser ceases to exist, the Taser should be deactivated and re-holstered.
Handcuffing Principles (AADC)
AADC
Apply
Adjust
Double Lock
Check
APPLY
ADJUST
DOUBLE LOCK
CHECK
OC Deployment Principles:
Spray → Move → Assess.
Defensive Spray – Ranges:
Optimum: 90cm
Max Effective: 3.5m
Concepts and Principles of Team Movement:
The six concepts and Principles of Team Movement are? (720 SCATS):
-720 degrees of coverage where possible
S – Stay together as much as possible.
C – Communication.
A – Cover the angles.
T – Threshold evaluation.
S – Speed of movement.
*Only as fast as you can think and shoot accuratel
Enter with:
- Surprise.
- Violence of action.
- Speed of movement
ABC’s of cover:
A – Accurate fire.
B – Body armour.
C – Cover from hostile fire
Bombs, Don’t-
- Touch
- Tilt
- Tamper
H.O.T. Principle:
H – Hidden?
O – Obviously suspicious?
T – Typical (for the area)?
Handcuffs:
- Chain/Hinge
- Swing arm
- Fixed arm
- Body
- Knurled locking barrel
Tactical Movement (5 sugars & milk- SSSSSM):
S – Shape
S – Shadow.
S – Silhouette.
S – Surface.
S – Spacing.
M – Movement.
10 Fatal Errors [MRSPFFFTTL]:
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MRSPFFFTTL
Making False Assumptions.
Relaxing too soon.
Sleepy or Asleep on the Job.
Poor or No Search.
Failure to Handcuff.
Failure to Watch Hands.
Failure to recognise danger signs.
Tombstone Courage.
Taking a bad position.
Lack of knowledge, apathy and/or complacency.
Cover is?
anything that provides protection from hostile fire.
Concealment is?
is protection from hostile observation.