LEGAL
This term describes the effort an officer has to use in order to get an unwilling subject to comply with their lawful commands.
What is use of force?
When studying firearms, this term refers to the hand you use to shoot the firearm.
What is the primary hand?
This is the primary concern for an officer when responding to any incident that has the potential for an arrest.
What is preserving life?
This drill involves pulling a subject’s arm across your body to gain a dominant position.
What is an arm drag?
This type of patrol discourages criminal activity by having an officer regularly present in the area.
What is proactive patrol?
To act in this manner, officers must be faithful to their duty and honestly intend to avoid taking undue advantage of others.
What is good faith?
To thoroughly clean this part of a semiautomatic pistol, you should insert the cleaning brush into the breech end and push it through until it clears the muzzle.
What is the bore?
This identification item alerts you to a specific medical condition, such as an allergy, epilepsy, or diabetes.
What is a medical alert?
When the heart rate is in the range of 60% to 85% of the maximum rate, you are training in this specific state.
What is a cardiovascular or aerobic state?
This concept describes the customs and regulations for constructing and transmitting radio messages.
What is radio protocol?
This document is a sworn, written statement by a law enforcement officer establishing certain facts and circumstances to justify an arrest.
What is a probable cause affidavit (or arrest affidavit)?
Dirt and debris in these two specific parts can hinder the firearm’s blowback and cycle function.
What are the recoil spring and guide?
When responding to a medical emergency, a criminal justice officer has this, regardless of a DNR/DNRO.
What is a duty to act?
This is the term for forcefully blinking the eyes using all the muscles in the face to help clear vision after contamination by a chemical agent.
What is strobing?
This is the vocabulary used in a profession that has meaning only to the people who work in that particular field.
What is jargon?
This doctrine defines the enclosed space of ground and outbuildings immediately surrounding a structure, which is given a higher degree of constitutional protection than an open field.
What is curtilage?
This part must be able to catch the rim of a fired cartridge as the firearm cycles; if not, the next round cannot feed properly.
What is the extractor?
When assessing a scene entrance, you should not stand directly in front of the door to avoid this dangerous situation.
What is a fatal funnel?
These are restraint devices typically used by correctional officers to secure a subject when moving an inmate from one location to another.
What are waist chains?
This online search database is maintained by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV).
What is the Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID)?
This standard is used to judge an officer's actions during a high-speed pursuit, requiring that the officer must have intended to cause harm without justification for deadly force.
What is "shock the conscience"?
This is identified as the most important element of firearms training.
What is safety?
This is the process of writing down information concerning an incident, event, activity, or statement.
What is note-taking?
This step in removing handcuffs follows visually inspecting and directing the subject into a position that prepares for removal.
What is approach the subject?
This term means taking immediate shelter in a readily accessible location or remaining inside a structure to prevent exposure to a dangerous situation.
What is shelter-in-place?