SCCJA Use of Force Week 2 Test & SC BASIC
DETENTION WEEK 2 Latest Update 2024-2025
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Define the stages of reaction time. - CORRECT ANSWER:
Demonstrate reactionary gap and reactionary options. - CORRECT ANSWER:
Demonstrate the fighting platform principle of all weapon systems toward target -
CORRECT ANSWER:
Demonstrate the patterns of movement while maintaining the fighting platform. -
CORRECT ANSWER:
Explain how case law related to the force continuum. - CORRECT ANSWER: D. The
Graham Case made it clear that the standard for an officer's force upon a "seized free
citizen" was whether the officer's force was "objectively reasonable" under the Fourth
Amendment.
Use of Force Guidelines:
1. All force must be reasonable.
2. All force must be necessary
3. Officer's actions will depend on the subject's actions, variables of the situation and
the officer's knowledge of his/her own physical abilities
Explain the history of Pressure Point Control Technique System - CORRECT ANSWER:
A. PPCT was founded in 1979 by Bruce Siddle. PPCT Management Systems is a
corporation that specializes in providing research based training for law enforcement,
military, corrections, and industrial security, designed to minimize the ever present risk
of liability.
, Identify case law that has impacted the use of deadly force in law enforcement. -
CORRECT ANSWER: H. Deadly Force Justifications:
1. To prevent death or serious injury to officer or another. (Graham V. Connor)
2. To prevent escape: Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect
poses a threat of serious physical harm either to the officer or others, it is not
constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force.
3. To not endanger himself/herself or the public unreasonably or unnecessarily in the
application of deadly force.
4. Use verbal commands of authority and deterrence whenever feasible.
Identify the components of acceptability. - CORRECT ANSWER: B. All PPCT training
programs are based upon the three principles. Tactical acceptability Hicks Law States
that "less is best.". There are three motor skills. Gross Motor Skills- Large muscle
movements (Legs and arms). Fine Motor Skills- Small muscle movement (fingers and
hands), Complex Motor Skills- Series of movements; hand/eye coordination skills,
medical acceptability-(1) Normal Use- Technique used at normal speed with no
resistance.
(2) Accelerated Use- Technique done at full speed and with full resistance. Legally-
PPCT has developed a force continuum based upon existing non-lethal force and lethal
force case law. A department policy on use of force should exist within each agency.
Officers must also be familiar with local, state and federal laws.
Identify the elements of deadly force. - CORRECT ANSWER: G. The three
requirements for use of deadly force in self-defense:
1. Ability- The capability or means to cause great bodily harm or death.
2. Opportunity- In a position to cause great bodily harm or death.
3. Jeopardy- An overt threatening move or gesture that could cause great bodily harm
or death.
Identify the force continuum variables. - CORRECT ANSWER: I. Type of crime,
officer/subject size and gender, exigent conditions, reaction time, access to weapons,
influence of alcohol or drugs, injury or exhaustion of officer, weather or terrain
conditions, special knowledge
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