CRCJ 4001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Incident Response Team, Blood Transfusion, Excited Delirium
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Responsible for managing areas of contract policing within the rcmp which also includes procinve, territory, municipal. Outside on and qc, rcmp does provincial policing. Cap deals with front line with policy, operational and latest research. For example new research into impaired by drug devices, body cameras and use of force. Technology very much integrated in research and policy decisions. Only about 12 shooting deaths from police per year. 0. 12% of calls lead to use of force. Authority to use force is in criminal code. Situational factors: environment, who"s involved, how many people etc . Subject behaviours: cooperative, passive resistance, active resistant, assaultive and threat. Officer perception: officer experience, officer strength, fatigue, fears, gender, sight, cultural background. Tactical considerations: which weapons, if any to use, officer apearace, backup geographic considerations, number of officers etc This leads you to level of interventions: verbal, soft control, hard control, less lethal weapons, police dog, lethal weapon.