Behavioural Factors of Criminal Offenders for Police Officers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, USA
Behavioural Factorssize: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.1pt”>(profiled behaviours)
In order to accurately assess a situation and respond to it using the most reasonable use of force option, it is critical that police officers be able to identify the particular behavioural level they are confronted. Five different behavioural categories or levels are identified.
height: 12.7pt” class=”MsoNormal”>The majority of police/citizen encounters involve cooperative compliance in response to lawful police requests or directions. The likelihood of a physical response is minimal.
II - Passive Resistance
0.1pt”>little or no physical response (e.g. refusal to leave the scene, failure to follow directive, taunting officers, advising others to disregard officers' lawful requests.
III - Active Resistance
0.15pt”>Identified as increased scope and intensity of resistance beyond verbal defiance. Reaction to control is stops: 34.1pt” class=”MsoNormal”>size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'”> - Assaultive
size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.1pt”>or resist threatening with a weapon; etc.
size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.15pt”>include choking, holding at gunpoint, brandishing an edged weapon, threatening and approaching with a weapon. This categoryrepresents the behaviours least encountered by officers but poses the most serious height: 12.5pt” class=”MsoNormal” align=”center”>For all your uniforms and duty gear please browse our site
