Drug Awareness
What are the general indicators of stimulant use?
•Restlessness
•Talkative
•Excitation
•Euphoria
•Exaggerated reflexes
•Loss of appetite
•Anxiety
•Grinding teeth (i.e., bruxism)
•Redness to nasal area (if snorting)
•Body tremors
Define Hazardous Materials
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS – any item or agent (biological, chemical, radiological, and/or physical), which has the potential to cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment, either by itself or through interaction with other factors
Cardinal Rules of Crime Scene Photography
•Fill the frame
•Maximize depth of field
•Keep the lens perpendicular to the subject
Jenny calls you because her ex-boyfriend is calling her all hours of the day and night. He keeps leaving her voicemails professing his love for her. Jenny has told him to stop calling. You take a report. What would be the charge listed in the report?
Telecommunications Harassment
(A) No person shall knowingly make or cause to be made a telecommunication, or knowingly permit a telecommunication to be made from a telecommunications device under the person's control, to another, if the caller does any of the following:
(1) Makes the telecommunication with purpose to harass, intimidate, or abuse any person at the premises to which the telecommunication is made, whether or not actual communication takes place between the caller and a recipient;
A suspect steals $5795.33 worth of merchandise from Best Buy. What would you charge the suspect with, including the level of offense
Theft 2913.02 F5
$1,000-$7,500 = F5
Paraphernalia Associated with
Methamphetamine Use
Cut straws, pipes, mirrors, needles, butane torches, foil, MSM (joint supplement mainly used to cut ice/crystal meth)
Routes Through Which Hazardous
Material Can Enter the Body (4)
Inhalation
ingestion
absorption
injection
list the crime scene photograph perspectives/viewpoints.
Overall or establishing shots
Corners and sides approach
Mid-range or evidence establishing shots
Close-up shots
Sarah calls 9-1-1 saying that her Uber Eats delivery driver tried to get her into his car. She did not get into the car, but when she opened her food, it looked like it had been gone though with a white powder on the food.
You arrive on scene and find the food on the front porch, still sealed. You talk to Sarah and she admits to making up the story because her food did not arrive on time. What would be the best charge for Sarah?
Making False Alarms
(A) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
(2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
(3) Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
Tom goes to Toyota Direct and attempts to purchase a new Prius. Tom fills out the paperwork as Jim Simon, and presents a SSN card with Jim Simon's SSN. Toyota realizes this is not Jim and calls the police. What would be the best charge for Tom?
Identity Fraud.
(B) No person, without the express or implied consent of the other person, shall use, obtain, or possess any personal identifying information of another person with intent to do either of the following:
(1) Hold the person out to be the other person;
(2) Represent the other person's personal identifying information as the person's own personal identifying information.
General Indicators of Depressants Use
•“Drunken” behavior and appearance
•Uncoordinated
•Drowsy
•Sluggish
•Disoriented
•Thick, slurred speech
•Unsteady, staggering (i.e., gait ataxia)
Mechanisms of Harm Presented
to First Responders (3)
•Thermal (fire and/or explosion)
•Radiological
•Asphyxiation
•Chemical exposure
•Etiological (biological hazards)
•Mechanical (physical hazards)
What are the Two Most Common Methods By Which an Officer May Be Injured or Killed During an Officer Initiated Contact
•Felonious assault
•Crash
Your are transporting an inmate to Grady Hospital for a doctor's appointment. You have the back window rolled down and while at a red light, the inmates jumps out of the back seat. You catch him after a short foot chase. What would be the charge for the prisoner?
Escape
(A)(1) No person, knowing the person is under detention, other than supervised release detention, or being reckless in that regard, shall purposely break or attempt to break the detention, or purposely fail to return to detention, either following temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or limited period, or at the time required when serving a sentence in intermittent confinement.
Jill is walking back to her vehicle from Walmart as a man approaches her. The man grabs her purse and knocks Jill to the ground, causing her an injury. The man got away with the purse. What would be the best criminal charge?
Robbery
(A) No person, in attempting or committing a theft offense or in fleeing immediately after the attempt or offense, shall do any of the following:
(1) Have a deadly weapon on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control;
(2) Inflict, attempt to inflict, or threaten to inflict physical harm on another;
(3) Use or threaten the immediate use of force against another.
General Indicators of Narcotic Use
•“On the nod” (i.e., an alternately wakeful and drowsy state)
•Droopy eyelids
•Depressed reflexes
•Dry mouth
•Facial itching
•Low/raspy speech
•Fresh puncture marks may be evident
The Role of the First Responder to
a Hazardous Materials Incident Is limited to what level?
The Awareness Level
What are the two legal foundations for making a vehicle stop
Reasonable Suspicion
Probable Cause
A man is outside of Sam's bar yelling profanity at other customers. The bar calls you and wants him removed from the property. The male is clearly very intoxicated and unable to stand. He does not have a sober party to pick him up. What do you do with the man?
Take him to DCJ and charge him with DOC
(A) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person;
Steven calls the police because his car was broken into (smashed back window). The car was parked in his detached garage. The suspect did not get any property as the car was empty, but it was clearly gone through. What would be the highest criminal charge?
Breaking and Entering
(A) No person by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an unoccupied structure, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or any felony.
(B) No person shall trespass on the land or premises of another, with purpose to commit a felony.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of breaking and entering, a felony of the fifth degree.
General Indicators of Cannabis Use
•Bloodshot eyes
•Body tremors
•Odor of marihuana
•Disorientated
•Relaxed inhibitions
•Difficulty in dividing attention
Principles of Scene Security of a
Hazardous Material Incident
•Scene security is isolating and protecting the area by prohibiting access
•May move un-injured, un-contaminated people to outside of the emergency area
•Anyone inside the area will have to be contained until better equipped responders arrive for decontamination of exposed persons
What are the two general categories of a vehicle stop?
•Unknown-Risk
•High-Risk
Paul is on the stand in a court proceeding and testifies to the fact that an officer made a traffic stop on his vehicle and brutally dragged him out of the car before beating him with a baton. Dash Cam and Body Camera footage both show that never took place. What would be the most appropriate charge for Paul?
Perjury
(A) No person, in any official proceeding, shall knowingly make a false statement under oath or affirmation, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made, when either statement is material.
You get called to a house that has TP all over the trees. The homeowner is livid about the situation and demands you take a report. What would be the best criminal charge to list in the report?
Section 2909.07 | Criminal mischief.
(A) No person shall:
(1) Without privilege to do so, knowingly move, deface, damage, destroy, or otherwise improperly tamper with either of the following:
(a) The property of another;