Procedure 804 Flashcards
- Passive:
a. Tranquil - The members of a tranquil crowd are lawfully pursuing their interest with the safety of others in mind. As such, they require no police control.
(1) Example: ________
(2) Recommended Action: None
Mall shoppers
- Passive:
b. Apprehensive - A sudden or unanticipated development may cause members of a crowd to become apprehensive.
(1) Example: ________
(2) Recommended Action: Provide accurate information
A bomb threat
- Passive:
Exuberant - An exuberant crowd gathers for an enjoyable event. This crowd responds to cheerleading, flag waving, and music. It is an enthusiastic crowd and follows cues.
(1) Example: __________
(2) Recommended Action: Monitor
Concerts and parades
- Active:
a. Confused - Members of a tranquil crowd who don’t have sufficient information and the perplexing situation causes confusion and anxiety.
(1) Example: ________
(2) Recommended Action: Provide accurate information
Stalled traffic
- Active:
b. Annoyed - Members of passive crowds experiencing confusion and a feeling of being denied information relative to a current difficulty.
(1) Example: _________
(2) Recommended Action: Provide accurate information and monitor closely. Begin planning for control strategies.
A scheduled event is delayed or postponed
- Active:
c. Physically Active - Members of exuberant crowds who begin to throw objects for others to catch in the spirit of having fun.
(1) Example: _________
(2) Recommended Action: Take immediate action to stop activity and prevent non-active participants from becoming annoyed.
Frisbee throwing in an arena/aerosol string dispensers.
- Active:
d. Protesting - An antagonistic, often hostile, crowd seeking to bring about a change in a relationship or structure. If this crowd is frustrated in its immediate efforts to achieve change it may become volatile.
(1) Example: _________
(2) Recommended Action: Contact leaders and establish firm rules for crowd’s behavior.
Labor dispute/civil protest
- Volatile:
a. Panicked - Panic resulting from a need to get away from a situation or out of an area in preservation of life.
(1) Example: __________
(2) Recommended Action: Provide accurate information, use control measures and provide avenues of escape.
A fire in a crowded auditorium
- Volatile:
b. Malicious - This crowd, often a group of members within a crowd, possesses a self-centered intent. It pushes and shoves others without concern. Its behavior is without concern for the safety or well-being of others and breaks laws.
(1) Example: ___________
(2) Recommended Action: Remove actors immediately or place under close surveillance.
Throwing cans, bottles, and fireworks in an arena/gang members mixed in with a passive or active crowd.
- Volatile:
c. Unruly - This crowd, a mob, openly and defiantly breaks the law. It is angry and destructive. While a crowd of malicious individuals may be a small group within another crowd, this crowd is composed almost entirely of lawbreakers and rioters.
(1) Example: ________
(2) Recommended Action: Full crowd control measures
A riot
- Manpower configurations:
a. Squad - 1 Sergeant, __ officers.
13
- Manpower configurations:
b. Platoon - 1 Lieutenant, __ Squads.
4
- Manpower configurations:
c. Company - 1 Captain, ___ Platoons.
3
Smoke should be used ______ to the use of chemical agents.
prior
Mobile saturation units consisting of _______ officers operating a single marked vehicle should be deployed in a sufficient number to allow the officers to:
four (4)
The __________:
- Maintains the equipment and training status of arrest groups;
- Implements the multiple arrest procedures in their entirety when directed by the Incident Commander; and
- Designates a field detention area near the site to allow for the preparation of prisoners for booking.
Commander of the Special Operations Unit
Arrest groups may expand in size or number according to the number of arrests anticipated or the amount of resistance contemplated. The determinant being the ability of the group to __________ the flow of arrestees.
expedite
Arrest procedures:
Persons who offer no resistance are ________ to the field detention area.
walked
Arrest procedures:
In the event a person offers _________ resistance in refusing to accompany the officers, the person is lifted and walked or carried to the field detention area.
passive
Each person arrested is handcuffed and searched. Numbered plastic handcuffs are utilized to handcuff and identify persons arrested. In ________ demonstrations, the __________ may decide not to handcuff arrested persons in order to diminish the crowd’s anxiety; however, a numbered plastic handcuff is placed around the wrist of the arrested person to serve as identification.
passive
Incident Commander
Persons arrested are taken to the field detention area by the ________ team.
arrest
At the field detention area:
a. Arrestees, when necessary, are provided medical treatment, water, and public facilities. ______ is not provided to arrestees;
Food
At the direction of the arrest group supervisor, the transporting officers proceed to the Detention Center. Upon arrival the transporting officers:
e. ______ the original photograph, offense report, and the copy of the booking slip (stapled together); and
f. Return to the field detention area for further assignment.
Retain
In the event the City of San Antonio Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was activated, the Incident Commander, at the direction of the ________, decreases the number of personnel and equipment at the scene until only the personnel directly involved in the operation remain.
EOC Commander
The Incident Commander prepares a final report detailing the Department response to the event. This report is submitted, along with a copy of the ________, to the Chief of Police within thirty (30) days.
Command Post Journal
