NLVPD Procedure CH 4 Flashcards
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What are Approved Weapons?
Weapons that meet Department specifications for which officers receive proficiency and safety training.
Before using an approved weapon, officers should communicate that the use of the weapon is __________.
Imminent
What are Articulable Aggravating Circumstances?
Factors that can be documented by an officer, which increase the severity or culpability of a criminal act.
Examples of Articulable Aggravating Circumstances include _________, violence, or the severity of the crime.
Heinousness
What is Cuffing Under Power?
A tactic where a secondary officer handcuffs a subject while the Taser is cycling and the subject is in neuro-muscular incapacitation (NMI).
What does Deadly Force refer to?
The degree of force that is likely to cause death or serious bodily injury.
What is the role of the Deadly Force Review Board?
To conduct an administrative examination of uses of deadly force to improve individual and Department performance.
What does the Detective Bureau (NLVPD) investigate?
Whether the use of deadly force was legally justified under criminal law.
Force Transitions refer to the movement from one force type to another in conjunction with the __________ standard.
Objectively reasonable
What does Imminent Threat mean?
An impending violent act or resistance that an officer reasonably believes will occur.
Intermediate Force is greater than ________ force.
Low-level
An Involved Officer is one who participated in, directed, or influenced the application of the _______ of force.
Use
Less Lethal Force promotes operational objectives with less potential for causing death or serious bodily injury than _______ force.
Lethal
Levels of Control include low-level force, intermediate force, and ________ force.
Deadly
Low Level Force is intended to cause ________.
Injury
Non-Deadly Force is not intended to create a substantial risk of causing ________.
Death
An Officer-Involved Shooting refers to an officer’s discharge of a firearm at a person, with or without _______.
Injury
An Other Firearm Discharge is an unintentional discharge that does not cause injury or death to a person or the intentional shooting at, injuring, or _______ animals.
Killing
Physical Force compels a person to involuntarily move, cease movement, or physically _______ to that force.
React
A Public Safety Statement (PSS) is used to determine if there is an immediate threat to public safety. The supervisor must ensure __________.
Public safety
Ramming is prohibited unless it is a ________ force situation.
Deadly
Reasonable Belief refers to facts or circumstances that would cause an ordinary person to act in a similar way under ________ circumstances.
Similar
Reasonable Force is an objective standard of force based on the ________ of the circumstances present.
Totality
Reportable Force includes any use of force that results in injury or complaint of injury, or any use of force greater than ________ force.
Low level