Safety and Security
A state of mental responsiveness; the ability to pay attention to what is going on around you.
What is situational awareness?
Automated - Facial recognition software, automated barcode scanner.
Manual - Files, face sheet, id card, gate pass.
What are the common methods of identification?
An inmate attempts to get something they want by influencing an officer or staff member to do something they wouldn't ordinarily do.
What is manipulation?
Any authorized item found in excessive amounts or altered from it's original state that doesn't pose an immediate threat.
What is Nuisance Contraband?
Spiral, Strip/Line, Grid, Zone/Quadrant
What are the different searching methods?
Placing yourself in a tactically advantageous location to observe an area.
What is Positioning?
State driver's license, passport, birth certificate, student id card.
What are some types of personal identification?
Lying, misleading, tricking, or fooling another person.
What is deception?
Any item that poses a threat to the safety and security of staff, inmates, and the facility.
What is Hard/Hazardous Contraband?
Flashlights, screwdrivers, mirrors, probing devices, bags or containers, notepads, metal detectors, x-ray scanners, canines.
What are the different types of search equipment?
Holding your body in a manner that shows strength, confidence, interest, and control.
What is Posture?
Unexpired, unaltered, personal identification that contains security features.
What is valid identification?
Attempting to create bonds with staff members, disobeying rules, using special circumstances, distracting staff.
What are ways inmates manipulate staff?
Visual search, pat down, clothed search, custodial search, cell/area search.
What are ways to find contraband?
Day rooms, cells, dormitories, rec. yards, kitchens, parking lots, bars, locks, windows, doors, bunks, chairs, outside transport destinations, work-release sites, courtrooms, and medical offices.
What are the different search areas?
1.) Being alert
2.) Identifying a potential threat
3.) Responding to a threat
What are the stages of situational awareness?
Personal identification missing some or all essential security features.
What is counterfeit identification?
Being part of the team; follows rules and procedures; monitors remarks, gestures, and actions; truthful and professional.
What are behaviors officers should display?
Money, medication, illegal drugs, weapons, biohazardous materials.
What are items of contraband that require special disposal?
What helps prevent the spread of contraband, weapons, and dangerous items in a facility?
What are searches?
Demonstrating confidence and control by avoiding distracting behaviors.
What is controlled behavior?
Photograph, identification number, signature, personal information, physical and security features.
What are features of personal identification?
Observers - observe correctional officers.
Contacts - supply information about correctional officer work habits, likes, and dislikes.
Runners - paid members that expose themselves to the correctional officer to ask for illegal items.
Turners - coerce an officer to engage in rule infractions.
Point men - stand guard when an officer is in the process of illegal activities.
What is an organized team of inmates that manipulate and deceive an officer?
Identify, confiscate, document, and disposition.
What is the process of collecting contraband?
begin at a central point and move in increasingly larger circles to the outermost boundaries of the search area.
What is a spiral search pattern?