Use of Force Concepts
Use of Force Concepts
Topics Covered:
- Force utilization models in law enforcement
- De-escalation and response to resistance considerations for law enforcement
- Force utilization with persons in crisis and/or those with mental illness
- Duty to intervene considerations for law enforcement
- Duty to render aid considerations for law enforcement
- Legal considerations for law enforcement
- Examine force utilization articulation considerations for law enforcement
Course Overview:
Force utilization continues to be a hot topic in law enforcement circles around the country. Despite a myriad of conversations, innumerable trainings, and a multitude of publications, force utilization in law enforcement related situations remains at the forefront of our conversations, training, and litigation.
Law enforcement organizations and their officers quickly come under fire for questionable behavior, reactions, and responses - especially when force utilization is called into question. The growing challenge in force utilization cases across the country is the lack of a nationally accepted standard and lens through which law enforcement organizations and their officers are reviewed and held accountable. This has created significant challenges for law enforcement across the country. Organizations are losing millions of dollars every year to civil liability and federal oversight. Individual officers have been and will continue to be held criminally responsible and civilly liable for their conduct. Although the necessity of force may never be eliminated, law enforcement organizations and their officers must ensure their force is selective, appropriate, proportionate, and legitimate.
This course examines public safety force utilization considerations critical to organizational and operational legitimacy. Use of Force Concepts provides a legal and legitimate foundation for force utilization and the accountability that follows such incidents. This course strives to better participants’ understanding of force utilization, improve decision making, increase officer and public safety, manage organizational risk, and limit personal criminal responsibility and civil liability.
This training is relevant to law enforcement officers, field training officers, academy instructors, supervisors, investigators (special investigative units, internal affairs, etc.), and legal teams.