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Defensive Taxtics
A system of controlled defensive and offensive body movements that criminal justice officers use to respond to a subject’s aggression or resistance
Apply strategies for optimal physical performance during a defensive tactic training program…
Eat healthy, enough rest, drink plenty of fluids, physical fitness, strength, agility, balance, flexibility
The role of defensive tactics is to assist the officer in…
Restraining or arresting a person
Front Fall (how it’s done)
●Loud, clear verbal commands
●Extend bent arms as a balance position
●Fall forward to a prone position; connecting the ground with the palms, forearms, and feet, turning your head to the side toward your chest
●Follow up with appropriate actions
Rear Fall (how it’s done)
●Loud clear verbal commands
●Tuck your chin in chest
●Squat and roll backwards
●Swing both arms at a 45°angle and strike the ground with palms
●Follow up with appropriate actions
Side Fall (how it’s done)
●Loud, clear verbal commands
●Tuck your chin to chest
●Squat and roll to one side
●Relax body
●Don’t land flat; roll after hitting the ground
●Swing the same side arm and strike the ground with the palm
●Follow up with appropriate actions
Prone Position (Define)
Lying on the stomach, face down
Foundation (how it’s done)
●Loud, clear verbal commands
●Prop the upper body off the ground (posting)
●Bend knees with feet on ground
●Keep free hand up in a defensive position
●Follow up with appropriate actions
Hip Escape/Shrimping (concept)
While on your back, it allows you to move from side to side to avoid or defend against an attack
Cardiovascular Training (Define)
Any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range of 60% to 80% of the maximum rate
776.F.S.
Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers
Section 776.05.F.S
Addresses the issue of an officer using force to make an arrest
(776.05.F.S)
The officer is justified in the use of any force:
- Believes to be necessary to defend themselves or another from bodily harm while making an arrest
- Necessarily committed in retaking felons who have escape
- Necessary committed in arresting felons from fleeing from justice
944.F.S
Addresses the use of force specifically by state Correctional and Correctional probation officers
945.F.S.
Establishes that the Department of Corrections has jurisdiction over the supervisory and protective care, custody, and control of inmates and offenders
Section 944.35.F.S (provides)
●To defend themselves against unlawful force
●Prevent a person from escaping
●Prevent damage to property
●Quell a disturbance
●Overcome physical resistance to lawful command
●Administer medical treatment
Objective Reasonable (concept)
Decide whether an officer’s use of force is a appropriate response to a subject’s resistance
Explain that subject resistance and officer response may change rapidly…
Criminal justice officers must make split-second judgements about the amount of force needed in a particular situation under circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and quickly changing.
Apply the legal authority for an officer’s response to a subject’s resistance…
It’s not about the amount of force used, but whether the use of force was permitted at all. Though the law grants criminal justice officers the right to use it, the right is condition on their official authority
Compliance (Define)
The verbal or physical yielding to an officer’s authority without apparent threat of resistance or violence
Escalation (define)
Increasing the use of force kr resistance
De-escalation (define)
Decreasing the use of force or resistance
Disengagement (define)
Discontinuing a command or physical use of force
Ex: breaking away from a subject
Explain how the injury potential to an officer may affect their response…
The officer’s choices are determined by the subject’s actions and the risk of physical harm posed to them or others. Once the officer gets controlled, they must de-escalate their use of force; sometimes disengagement may be the best tactical option.
Ex: when the officer is waiting for backup, because the officer is injured or outnumbered, or when the subject has superior firepower.