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Focus: Command Staff Officers of any rank, Internal Affairs
investigators, agency risk managers,
and civil attorneys
Length: 8
hours
The Command Staff of any agency is placed in the unique position of
having to defend their agency and officers from civil liability while
at the same time protecting the public from officers who violate
policy and laws in the areas of force employment. As such, the
command officer may be required to testify in court regarding the
officer's force response and how that commander evaluated a particular officer’s force
in any particular incident.
Additionally, each command officer must be able to testify in a
precise manner regarding any policy violations leading to discipline.
Following any force response in the field, police Command Staffs face
a two-edged threat to the good order of their police agency:
- A police officer is
disciplined for what is perceived by the rank and file as a
reasonable force response,
creating a highly charged "us versus them" atmosphere that is
difficult to repair.
- The discipline of a
brutal officer being overturned at arbitration because
Command could not explain the concerns and reasoning to the satisfaction of
an arbitrator.
This course provides training to enhance every command officers’
ability to articulate the factors in their evaluation through a
formula that has been commended in the past by judges at all levels of
the court system. From the latest understanding of behavioral
science and police force, through safe tactical doctrine and OODA
Reaction/Response mitigating features, this course provides a
comprehensive tool to the police command officer in reaching a fair,
defensible evaluation of the police force response.
This
course was developed with the input and assistance of the top police
civil defense attorneys and police risk managers in the nation--people
who work full-time to defend officers in federal courts against
allegations of constitutional misconduct by officers.
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING
asked them a simple
question:
What do you want your
defendant police manager and chief executive to know
before he or she takes the stand in federal
Court?
This
is the information the professionals who defend you think you should
know!
Course Content:
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Current Plaintiff's
Threats
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Police Management
Liabilities in the Force Response Incident
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Constitutional Limits
to the Police Force Response
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OODA, Tactics, and
Other Mitigating Factors in Force Response
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Current Officer
Reporting Requirements.
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Evaluation of Police
Force Formula
This class helps you articulate
why your officers did the job correctly,
allowing you to defend them to the media, and to your bosses.
It can also help you make
discipline for the use of force stick, and not be overturned.
In either case, the formula this course
provides permits you to better articulate your administrative
decisions! |
