Authority Level
The level of authority during a civil infraction traffic stop.
What is detention authority.
This level of force is allowed for a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest.
f.s. 776.05
What is the use of ANY force
Something you can hide behind to not be seen but does not any protection.
What is concealment?
Any unwanted touch or strike.
What is a battery?
f.s. 784.03(1)(a)
When a crash occurs and one of the involved drivers leave the location.
What is leaving the scene of a crash or hit and run?
f.s. 316.027(2)(a-c) or 316.061(1)
The level of authority once probable cause is established, or a warrant is being executed.
What is arrest authority?
This level of force is allowed when preventing a fleeing felon who is reasonably believed to pose a threat of death or serious harm, or the fleeing felon has committed or threatened to commit serious harm.
f.s. 776.05(3)
What is deadly force?
Something that you can hide behind that may stop bullets.
What is cover?
The theft of items valued over $750.
What is grand theft?
f.s. 812.014(2)(c)
The killing of a human being, or the killing of an unborn child by any injury to the mother, caused by the operation of a motor vehicle by another in a reckless manner likely to cause the death of, or great bodily harm to, another
What is vehicular homicide?
This is required for detention authority while investigating a crime.
What is reasonable suspicion.
This level of resistance allows for the use of a taser or pepper spray.
What is passive to active resistance?
The active ingredient in pepper spray.
What is capsaicin?
An intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with the ability to do so and creates a well-founded fear, with a deadly weapon without intent to kill or with an intent to commit a felony.
What is aggravated assault?
f.s. 784.021
Any other offenses are often upgraded by one degree if committed in furtherance of this offense.
What is a riot?
This level of detention is allowed when a subject meets criteria for a Baker or Marchman Act.
What is protective custody?
This use of force is considered legally allowed at the same point a taser is.
However, at the LCSO it may only be used for felonies.
What is a canine bite.
A judge's order, often referred to as a restraining order, used to bar someone from making contact with an individual.
What is an injunction? (Stalking or Domestic Violence)
This offense involves being at a location at an unusual time that warrants alarm or concern for the safety of people or property.
What is Loitering and Prowling?
f.s. 856.021
When a person who does not meet the criteria in subsection 790.001(1) and who carries a concealed weapon or electric weapon or device, on or about his or her person.
What is carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms?
(A Concealed Weapon License is no longer required; however the individual must still meet the requirement to be able to obtain one, and is required to carry ID.)
The level of authority you have when making consensual contact any random citizen on the street.
None
This level of resistance is when subject does not comply with orders but is not actively interfering with law enforcement action.
What is passive resistance?
The respective national and Florida based centers for crime information.
What is NCIC/FCIC?
When someone attempts to use and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in s. 831.01 knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited, with intent to injure or defraud any person.
What is uttering?
f.s. 831.02
Whoever, wantonly or maliciously, shoots at, within, or into, or throws any missile or hurls or projects a stone or other hard substance which would produce death or great bodily harm, at, within, or in any public or private building, occupied or unoccupied, or public or private bus or any train, locomotive, railway car, caboose, cable railway car, street railway car, monorail car, or vehicle of any kind which is being used or occupied by any person, or any boat, vessel, ship, or barge lying in or plying the waters of this state, or aircraft flying through the airspace of this state shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree
What is shooting or throwing a deadly missile...
into dwellings, public or private buildings, occupied or not occupied; vessels, aircraft, buses, railroad cars, streetcars, or other vehicles?