PPCT COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔What are the 6 Levels of Control - ✔✔~Officer Presence - authority of officer
~Verbal Directions - commands of direction/orders
~Soft Empty Hand Control - pressure points, little to no potential of forming injury
~Hard Empty Hand Control -capable of causing bruising/injury, shoulder pin restraint
~Intermediate Weapon - Taser, chemical/oc spray, flashlight
~Deadly Force
✔✔what is Pain compliance - ✔✔Use of stimulus pain to control resistive behavior
✔✔what are stunning techniques - ✔✔Stimulation of overwhelming sensory input that is
sudden, intense and unexpected
✔✔What are the most prominent strikes - ✔✔Brachial Stun, Suprascapular Stun,
Angle/Knee kick to the subjects thigh
✔✔What are some distraction techniques - ✔✔Use of control techniques that weaken
motor action by changing the thought process
✔✔What is balance displacement? - ✔✔Use of control techniques that displace balance
through the principles of leverage
✔✔What is motor dysfunction? - ✔✔Control striking technique that overstimulates motor
nerves, resulting in temporary muscle impairment
✔✔What is the reactionary gap? - ✔✔~Minimum safe zone that an officer should
maintain when dealing with others.
~Minimum safe distance is at least 6 feet
✔✔what are the 2 types of tactical reactionary options? - ✔✔~Penetrate - the
reactionary gap
, ~Disengage - employ techniques that are designed to be used on the edge of gap
✔✔What is ideal relative positioning - ✔✔Good
Interview Position - Level I , in-front of subject at angled position
Escort Position - Level II ½ , behind subject at angled position.
Bad
Inside Position - directly in-front of subject
Level II - directly on side of subject
Level III - directly behind subject
✔✔What are the three different types of subjects? - ✔✔~Totally Cooperative - most
common type of subject, subject complies
~Potentially Uncooperative - most dangerous type of subject, Intoxicated/Experienced
Criminal
~Totally Uncooperative - don't attempt to handcuff until subject is under control
✔✔What are the three tactical considerations? - ✔✔~Approach to Contact - always
assume every subject is a potential resistor, use reactionary gap
~Control Upon Approach - gain immediate control, defeat expected resistance upon first
touch
~Speed in Application - to diffuse aggression or actions that may lead to aggression
✔✔What are the three situations where an officer is justified to handcuff? - ✔✔~Subject
committed a crime
~Subject is escape risk
~Subject is a safety hazard
✔✔What is the double push principle? - ✔✔Once the first handcuff has been applied,
the officer should grab the subject's other hand, rotate the thumb up, and apply the
second handcuff (top or bottom load)
✔✔When should officers double lock handcuffs? - ✔✔as soon as it is tactically safe to
do so
✔✔When is it okay to search a subject - ✔✔is now almost universally accepted as a
procedure that should be conducted after a subject is handcuffed
✔✔What is the prone application of handcuffing? - ✔✔Double push first handcuff and
iron wristlock, with care taken to keep the subject's hand below the officer's knee
✔✔What is the primary distraction technique used to control in the escort position? -
✔✔Knee Strike
SET A+
✔✔What are the 6 Levels of Control - ✔✔~Officer Presence - authority of officer
~Verbal Directions - commands of direction/orders
~Soft Empty Hand Control - pressure points, little to no potential of forming injury
~Hard Empty Hand Control -capable of causing bruising/injury, shoulder pin restraint
~Intermediate Weapon - Taser, chemical/oc spray, flashlight
~Deadly Force
✔✔what is Pain compliance - ✔✔Use of stimulus pain to control resistive behavior
✔✔what are stunning techniques - ✔✔Stimulation of overwhelming sensory input that is
sudden, intense and unexpected
✔✔What are the most prominent strikes - ✔✔Brachial Stun, Suprascapular Stun,
Angle/Knee kick to the subjects thigh
✔✔What are some distraction techniques - ✔✔Use of control techniques that weaken
motor action by changing the thought process
✔✔What is balance displacement? - ✔✔Use of control techniques that displace balance
through the principles of leverage
✔✔What is motor dysfunction? - ✔✔Control striking technique that overstimulates motor
nerves, resulting in temporary muscle impairment
✔✔What is the reactionary gap? - ✔✔~Minimum safe zone that an officer should
maintain when dealing with others.
~Minimum safe distance is at least 6 feet
✔✔what are the 2 types of tactical reactionary options? - ✔✔~Penetrate - the
reactionary gap
, ~Disengage - employ techniques that are designed to be used on the edge of gap
✔✔What is ideal relative positioning - ✔✔Good
Interview Position - Level I , in-front of subject at angled position
Escort Position - Level II ½ , behind subject at angled position.
Bad
Inside Position - directly in-front of subject
Level II - directly on side of subject
Level III - directly behind subject
✔✔What are the three different types of subjects? - ✔✔~Totally Cooperative - most
common type of subject, subject complies
~Potentially Uncooperative - most dangerous type of subject, Intoxicated/Experienced
Criminal
~Totally Uncooperative - don't attempt to handcuff until subject is under control
✔✔What are the three tactical considerations? - ✔✔~Approach to Contact - always
assume every subject is a potential resistor, use reactionary gap
~Control Upon Approach - gain immediate control, defeat expected resistance upon first
touch
~Speed in Application - to diffuse aggression or actions that may lead to aggression
✔✔What are the three situations where an officer is justified to handcuff? - ✔✔~Subject
committed a crime
~Subject is escape risk
~Subject is a safety hazard
✔✔What is the double push principle? - ✔✔Once the first handcuff has been applied,
the officer should grab the subject's other hand, rotate the thumb up, and apply the
second handcuff (top or bottom load)
✔✔When should officers double lock handcuffs? - ✔✔as soon as it is tactically safe to
do so
✔✔When is it okay to search a subject - ✔✔is now almost universally accepted as a
procedure that should be conducted after a subject is handcuffed
✔✔What is the prone application of handcuffing? - ✔✔Double push first handcuff and
iron wristlock, with care taken to keep the subject's hand below the officer's knee
✔✔What is the primary distraction technique used to control in the escort position? -
✔✔Knee Strike
