Defensive and Arrest Tactics

- A system of verbalization skills coupled w/ physical alternatives.

- Approach Considerations

- Intervention Options

- Follow-through Considerations

Report

Evaluate

Stabilize

Preserve

Organize

Normalize

Document/Debrief

Decision-making

Tactical Deployment

Tactical Evaluation

-Justification

-Desirability

- Control of Distance

- Relative Positioning

- Relative Positions with Multiple Subjects

- Team Tactics

-Threat Assessment Opportunities

-Officer/Subject Factors

-Special Circumstances

-Level/Stage/Degree of Stabilization

Level of Resistive Tension

Early Warning Signs

Pre-attack Postures

Indications of Mental Illness, Emotional Disturbance, or Medically Significant Behavior

Weapon Control Factors

- Conspicuously Ignores you

-Gives you Excessive Emotional Attention

-Moves in an Exaggerated way

-Ceases all Movement

-Has known Violent History

-Boxer stance

-Hand set/clenched fists

-Shoulder-shift

-Target glance

-"Thousand-yard stare"

Age

Size

Strength

Skill level

Reasonable Perception of Threat

Special Knowledge of Suspect

Sudden Assaults

Subject's ability to Escalate force Rapidly

Your physical Positioning

Injury/Exhaustion

Equipment/Training

Availability of Backup

Other Special Circumstances

Presence

Dialogue

Control Alternatives

Protective Alternatives

Deadly Force

Open stance

Ready stance

Defensive stance

Search talk

Persuasion

Light control talk

Heavy control talk

Escort holds - safely initiate physical contact

Compliance holds - overcome passive resistance

Control devices - overcome active resistance

Passive counter measures - decentralize a subject

Incapacitating technique - cause immediate temporary cessation of violent behavior

Active countermeasures - create temporary dysfunction of a resisting subject

Intermediate weapon - impede a subject

Intent

Weapon

Delivery system

<10 feet

Any Distance any Officer reasonably perceives an imminent danger of Great Bodily Harm or Death.

line of sight unbroken by cover

Target acquisition

Identification

Isolation

Check for tightness

Safety-lock

Search the subject for injuries

Hug Yourself

Lower your center

Push-Pull

Secure the head

Vertical stuns

Focused strikes

Reaction Hand Strike

Reaction Forearm Strike

Strong Hand Strike

Strong Forearm Strike

Reaction Front Kick

Reaction Knee Strike

Strong Angle Knee Strike

Strong Angle Kick

- To achieve and maintain control of resistive subjects

-To detain persons reasonably suspected of criminal behavior

-To make lawful arrests

-In defense of self or others

-To prevent escapes   

- The severity of the alleged crime at issue.

- Whether the suspect poses an imminent threat to the safety of officers and/or others.

- Whether the suspect is actively resisting or attempting to evade arrest by flight.

1. A trained technique

2. A dynamic application of a trained technique (i.e. not quite the classroom model, but as close to it as possible under the circumstances)

3.A technique not trained, but justifiable under the circumstances.

1.) The purpose of DAAT is Control

2.) An officer is always permitted to Disengage or Escalate

3.) Can move from any mode to another

4.) Once control is gained you must Reduce your UOF to a level to maintain control

5.) The officer must maintain the Position of Advantage

1.) You / Officer

2.) Fellow Officers / Staff Members

3.) Civilian(s)

4.) Criminal(s)

1.Be effective from the beginning.

2.Never spar with anyone.

3.Hit as hard as you can.

Indications of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and/or medically significant behavior 

Why can they be so dangerous to officers and themselves ?

Extremely strong.

High pain tolerance.

Fighting for their life.

Describe

Identify

Forced Actions

-Danger

- Overriding Concern

- No Progress

- Escape

Opening

Information Gathering

Response

Request cooperation

Explain reason for contact

Allow choice

Check decision

Take action