Rapid Deployment Flashcards
“The swift and immediate deployment of law enforcement resources to ongoing, life-threating situations where delayed deployment could otherwise result in death or great bodily injury to innocent persons.”
Rapid deployment
What are the 4 types of active shooter situation’s?
(1) School
(2) Business
(3) Hostage rescue
(4) Injured officer/civilian rescues.
LEO Response:
(1) Locate
(2) Isolate
(3) Stop the shooter
What is the number 1 response when arriving to an active shooter call?
Contain and stop the shooter.
Where can active shooters happen?
Anywhere.
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Observe
Orient
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The active shooter mindset is to _______ ________.
Keep killing.
Active shooters mindset characteristics:
- History of gun use
- Decides beforehand to cause harm
- Attack is planned
- General motive is revenge
- Most shooters don’t plan to come out alive.
What are the 3 movement goals of the contact team?
(1) Locate the threat
(2) Isolate/limit the threat
(3) Confront, stop and apprehend the shooter.
What are the 6 safe movement principles?
(1) Move toward the sound of gunfire
(2) Stay off the walls
(3) Always be aware of the points of cover
(4) Stop behind cover
(5) Gather intelligence as you move
What are your senses to locate threat?
(1) Stop
(2) Look
(3) Listen
What is the responsibility of the rescue team?
(1) Locates and evacuates the injured
(2) May have to become the contact team
(3) 4 or more officers
(4) Perform life saving measures
(5) Determine priorities for evacuation
(6) Move injured to EMS safe area
What is the responsibility of the inner perimeter team?
Establish rally points inside the school, protect fleeing students, and apprehend suspect.
What is the responsibility of the outdoor perimeter team?
Controls traffic and cuts off all roadway entrances.
Overall perimeter team:
Established to control and contain the area
Additional responders may be assigned perimeter duties
