General Order 400-800 Flashcards
(295 cards)
The physical location where a barricaded suspect or hostage is believed to be
located.
Objective
The area of containment that prevents outsiders from interfering with or
being endangered by the threat situation.
Outer Perimeter
Any area in which a suspect can fire or use a weapon that could kill or injure a person.
Kill Zone
Any incident in which the possibility exists or the available information
indicates that a barricaded suspect may be holding a hostage.
Hostage Situation
The ________shall terminate a foot pursuit at any time the supervisor concludes
that the danger to pursuing officers or the public outweighs the necessity for immediate
apprehension of the suspect.
designated supervisor
____________ should ensure that they are readily identifiable as police officers by wearing an outer garment such as a raid jacket along with their official police identification.
Plainclothes Personnel
600-11 pg5
When a foot pursuit does not
result in a Response to Resistance (R2R), officers shall complete the ________via the Response to Resistance Entry System on the dept Intranet Portal.
Foot Pursuit/No R2R form
The _______ of an authorized emergency vehicle shall drive with due regard for the safety of all persons and is responsible for the consequences of reckless disregard for the safety of others.
Driver
For motor vehicle pursuits that last _________ or ________becomes involved in the pursuit, the shift commander must review all available information from
the pursuit and must supplement the original incident report with any available relevant or pertinent information
15 minutes or more or a unit from another jurisdiction
If a motor vehicle pursuit is initiated any time between the hours of ___ to___ the on-duty (ECD) supervisor shall immediately notify the Command Center who in turn shall contact the _______.
1800 to 0600 ; on-duty night commander
If, for any reason, a ranking
officer from the division initiating the pursuit is not located, the ________shall assume all management responsibilities as described above.
Night Commander
Captains shall be held accountable for ensuring this General Order is followed. Captains shall
ensure compliance through _____ and _________, and when obvious and purposeful
deviations occur, by initiating an internal affairs investigation.
Training and counseling
motor vehicle pursuits GO 600-4
off-duty officer in a non-HPD vehicle that is equipped with emergency lights and sirens and
is clearly marked as a police vehicle, as defined in the Transportation Code Sec. 541201(1)(A),
may initiate a traffic stop and a pursuit only if the pursuit is initiated because of suspected______. This does not include _______ as a state jail felony. If a pursuit qualified by this
policy is initiated, the officer shall immediately notify dispatch and yield to the first arriving
Felony activity; Evading
If no helicopter is in service, the
dispatcher shall contact the department’s _________ and have one dispatched to the scene, weather permitting.
Air Support Division
The following stopping techniques may be used provided the field supervisor authorizes the use and techniques in accordance with current department procedures:
Rolling Roadblocks
Tire Deflation Devices
PIT Maneuver
Any in-progress act of violence or threat thereof that creates or is designed
to create fear of death or imminent bodily injury in the minds of others and is intended to
intimidate governments or citizen populations in the pursuit of goals that are generally political,
Terrorist Activity
Any person who causes or attempts to cause death or bodily injury to another person
by discharging a firearm from an initially concealed position.
Sniper
Special Threat 600-5
Body’ sheets used to cover a dead body shall be kept in stock in the ___________ and shall be issued to all divisions that have marked vehicles in their fleet.
Property Division
disposable sheets shall be issued to
any other divisions as approved by their __________.
Division Commander
The ________shall enter all available identifying information into
NamUs in cases received after September 1, 2021, that involve missing persons no later than the _____ day after the date the case was received.
Missing Persons Unit; 60th
Any employee who has reason to believe another employee is fraudulently obtaining workers’
compensation
benefits shall immediately report this information to ____ and ______. IAD shall notify the ________.
HSU and IAD; Office of Legal Services.
300-5 pg 10
In deciding whether or not to initiate or continue a pursuit, an officer should consider containment of the geographic area, saturation of the area with patrol personnel, canine availability for search, Air Support or _______alternatives to foot pursuit.
Apprehension at another time and place if the officer knows the identify of the subject or has other information that would likely allow for later apprehension
600-11 pg 2
In a foot pursuit, Officers should move to________ if the suspect is no longer in sight.
Active suspect search
600-11 pg 3
Assisting officers should immediately attempt to contain the pursued suspect. Unless the primary
officer needs immediate assistance, secondary and back-up officers should consider that a better strategy maybe to utilize a _______rather than respond to the primary officers location.
Perimeter search
600-11 pg 3