DAAT STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Safety Priorities - ✔✔1. You
2. Fellow officers
3. Civilians
4. Suspects
✔✔When Can Officers Use Force? - ✔✔1. To achieve and maintain control of resistive
subjects
2. To detain persons reasonably suspected of criminal behavior
3. To make lawful arrests
4. In defense of self or others
5. To prevent escapes
✔✔Key Rules for Use of Force - ✔✔1. The purpose is control
2. Escalation does not need to follow step by step through intervention options
3. You can always disengage and/or escalate
4. Once control is achieved, you must reduce the level of force to that needed to
maintain control
5. You must always maintain a position of advantage
✔✔Categories of Force - ✔✔1. A trained technique
2. A dynamic application of a trained technique
3. Not trained but justified under the circumstances
✔✔Incident Response (RESPOND) - ✔✔Report
Evaluate
Stabilize
Preserve
Organize
Normalize
Document/Debreif
✔✔Report - ✔✔1. Become aware
2. Plan response
3. Arrive/assess
4. Alarm/inform
✔✔Evaluate - ✔✔1. Look for dangers
2. Determine back up needs
3. Enter when appropriate/tactically sound
✔✔Stabilize - ✔✔1. Subject(s)
2. Scene
, ✔✔Preserve - ✔✔1. Life
- Conduct an initial medical assessment
- Treat to level of training
- Continue to monitor subject
2. Evidence
✔✔Organize - ✔✔1. Coordinate additional responding units (if necessary)
2. Communicate with dispatch and others
3. Organize the collection of evidence (if appropriate)
✔✔Normalize - ✔✔1. Provide for long term monitoring (as appropriate)
2. Restore scene to normal
3. Return radio communications to normal
✔✔Document/Debrief - ✔✔1. Debrief self, others, subjects
2. Document incident appropriately
✔✔Disturbance Resolution - ✔✔1. Approach Considerations
2. Intervention Options
3. Follow Through Considerations
✔✔Approach Considerations - ✔✔1. Decision Making
2. Tactical Deployment
3. Tactical Evaluation
✔✔Decision Making - ✔✔1. Justification
2. Desirability
✔✔Tactical Deployment - ✔✔1. Control of distance
2. Relative positioning
3. Relative positioning with multiple subjects
4. Team tactics
✔✔Tactical Evaluation - ✔✔1. Threat Assessment Opportunities
2. Officer/Subject Factors
3. Special Circumstances
4. Level/Stage/Degree of Stabilization
✔✔Control of Distance - Public - ✔✔>12ft
✔✔Control of Distance - Social - ✔✔4-12ft
✔✔Control of Distance - Personal - ✔✔1.5-4ft
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Safety Priorities - ✔✔1. You
2. Fellow officers
3. Civilians
4. Suspects
✔✔When Can Officers Use Force? - ✔✔1. To achieve and maintain control of resistive
subjects
2. To detain persons reasonably suspected of criminal behavior
3. To make lawful arrests
4. In defense of self or others
5. To prevent escapes
✔✔Key Rules for Use of Force - ✔✔1. The purpose is control
2. Escalation does not need to follow step by step through intervention options
3. You can always disengage and/or escalate
4. Once control is achieved, you must reduce the level of force to that needed to
maintain control
5. You must always maintain a position of advantage
✔✔Categories of Force - ✔✔1. A trained technique
2. A dynamic application of a trained technique
3. Not trained but justified under the circumstances
✔✔Incident Response (RESPOND) - ✔✔Report
Evaluate
Stabilize
Preserve
Organize
Normalize
Document/Debreif
✔✔Report - ✔✔1. Become aware
2. Plan response
3. Arrive/assess
4. Alarm/inform
✔✔Evaluate - ✔✔1. Look for dangers
2. Determine back up needs
3. Enter when appropriate/tactically sound
✔✔Stabilize - ✔✔1. Subject(s)
2. Scene
, ✔✔Preserve - ✔✔1. Life
- Conduct an initial medical assessment
- Treat to level of training
- Continue to monitor subject
2. Evidence
✔✔Organize - ✔✔1. Coordinate additional responding units (if necessary)
2. Communicate with dispatch and others
3. Organize the collection of evidence (if appropriate)
✔✔Normalize - ✔✔1. Provide for long term monitoring (as appropriate)
2. Restore scene to normal
3. Return radio communications to normal
✔✔Document/Debrief - ✔✔1. Debrief self, others, subjects
2. Document incident appropriately
✔✔Disturbance Resolution - ✔✔1. Approach Considerations
2. Intervention Options
3. Follow Through Considerations
✔✔Approach Considerations - ✔✔1. Decision Making
2. Tactical Deployment
3. Tactical Evaluation
✔✔Decision Making - ✔✔1. Justification
2. Desirability
✔✔Tactical Deployment - ✔✔1. Control of distance
2. Relative positioning
3. Relative positioning with multiple subjects
4. Team tactics
✔✔Tactical Evaluation - ✔✔1. Threat Assessment Opportunities
2. Officer/Subject Factors
3. Special Circumstances
4. Level/Stage/Degree of Stabilization
✔✔Control of Distance - Public - ✔✔>12ft
✔✔Control of Distance - Social - ✔✔4-12ft
✔✔Control of Distance - Personal - ✔✔1.5-4ft
