Officer Safety Flashcards
10 Fatal Errors
- Lack of knowledge, apathy and/or complacency
- Taking a bad position
- Failure to recognise danger signs
- Poor or no search
- Failure to handcuff
- Failure to watch hands
- Relaxing too soon
- Making false assumptions
- Tombstone courage
- Sleepy or asleep on the job
Tactical Options Model
- Officer presence
- OC spray
- Baton
- Communication
- Tactical disengagement
- Weapon less control
- CEW
- Firearm
- AAO tactics
- Contain and negotiate
Control theory
The goal is control of the situation
Officer / subject factors
- Age
- Gender
- Size
- Fitness
- Skill level
- Multiple officers / subjects
Special circumstances
- Proximity to weapons
- Special knowledge
- Injury or exhaustion
- Ground position
- Disability
- Imminent danger
- Drugs / alcohol
- Mental state
Colour coding buildings
- White = front
- Black = back
- Red = right
- Green = left
Tactical movement (6)
- Shape
- Shadow
- Silhouette
- Surface
- Spacing
- Movement
Cover
Anything that provides protection from hostile fire
Concealment
Protection from hostile observation
Triangle of success / Principles of room entry
- Speed
- Surprise
- Violence of attack
Deliberate pace
Only as fast as you can think and shoot (slow and methodical)
ABC’s of Cover
- Accurate fire
- Body armour
- Cover from hostile fire
Team movement principles (6)
- Stay together as much as possible
- 720 degrees of coverage where possible
- Communication
- Cover the angles
- Threshold evaluation
- Speed of movement
Entry to building / movement
- Entry to the building is at one point only
- Threshold evaluation
- Search as much area from cover before you enter
ROUTINE motor vehicle stop (7)
- Contact - under notice
- Isolation - tactical advantage
- Warning - signalling
- Stop - 1m offset, 7m back
- Check - for movement
- Action / Approach - report loc. and details
- Resolution - Arrest/TIN
ARMED & DANGEROUS Motor Vehicle Stops
- Contact - vehicle/occupant identified as armed & dangerous
- Isolation - tactical advantage
- Warning - signalling lights and sirens
- Stop - 12m directly behind
- Check - for movement
- Action / Approach - verbal comms, driver out first, keys on roof, face away etc
- Resolution - Arrest/TIN
Restrained face down position rules
Persons handcuffed should not be placed in a prone position for extended periods of time.
3 weaponless defensive principles of edged weapons
- Protect your body
- Create distance from the threat
- Stop continuation of the treat
5 steps of tactical comms
- Ask - ethical appeal
- Why - reasonable appeal
- Options - personal appeal, what can they gain or loose
- Confirm - practical appeal, anything I can say to gain your cooperation
- Actions - Use TOM to choose best option, assess and reassess
Police search to…
- locate / preserve evidence
- Find weapons / items used to injure or escape
Search generally
Section 30 LEPRA
- Run hands over outer clothing
- Remove outer clothing (shoes)
- Examine anything in possession
- Metal detector
- Other legislation components
Strip Searches
Section 31 LEPRA
- Police station or another place of detention
- Serious and urgent (do it anywhere)
- No under 10yrs
- Same sex
3 Principles for searching
- Slow
- Systematic
- Through
