WLEA POB EXAM 5 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Circumstantial Safety Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Circumstance, Environment and Suspect
Behavior
Circumstance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is this a high risk event?
What makes it a high risk event?
Are there ways to mitigate the risk?
Accurately Assessing Risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify risk factors we can affect or remove.
Identify what tactics are reasonable.
What are the three areas in which we develop processes to minimize the suspect's opportunity to resist
our efforts to seize them? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Circumstance, Environment and Suspect Behavior
How does accurately assessing risk help us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify risk factors we can affect
or remove.
Identify what tactics are reasonable.
What are circumstantial considerations? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An arrest warrant for Agg. Assault
Other family members known to be in the house.
The suspect's history of violence towards police.
Environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify factors that create risk, then determine which factors
can/can't be removed.
Assessing the Environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attempting to determine which hazards exists and
how they limit our tactical options.
Environmental Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Trailer houses in very close proximity to the
suspect's house on two sides
, A street light in front of the suspect's house
Darkness
Snow on the ground
Suspects Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Comply, Resist or Flee
Remove factors that give the opportunity to resist or flee.
Behavioral Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Suspect attempting to run from the house
Suspect's refusal to come to the door
Concealed Weapons and Devices - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Weapons and Security devices
Weapons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any force multiplier that can be used to cause harm.
Security Devices - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Items that can be used to remove handcuffs or retraints
Goal of Searching - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Be as thorough and systematic as possible
Elements of a Search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Be focused, deliberate, and objective, Start top of body
and work down, Visually search before touching whenever possible, when clothing lays flat, you can use
palm or back of hand, Use pinch/squeeze method for waistbands, For breastline/groin use blade/ridge
of hand, Visually search areas of exposed skin (do not touch)
What is the goal of any viable searching process? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To be thorough and
systematic
What is the recommended way to search clothing that lays relatively flat to the body? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Use the palm or back of the hand
Circumstantial Safety Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Circumstance, Environment and Suspect
Behavior
Circumstance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is this a high risk event?
What makes it a high risk event?
Are there ways to mitigate the risk?
Accurately Assessing Risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify risk factors we can affect or remove.
Identify what tactics are reasonable.
What are the three areas in which we develop processes to minimize the suspect's opportunity to resist
our efforts to seize them? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Circumstance, Environment and Suspect Behavior
How does accurately assessing risk help us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify risk factors we can affect
or remove.
Identify what tactics are reasonable.
What are circumstantial considerations? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An arrest warrant for Agg. Assault
Other family members known to be in the house.
The suspect's history of violence towards police.
Environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify factors that create risk, then determine which factors
can/can't be removed.
Assessing the Environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attempting to determine which hazards exists and
how they limit our tactical options.
Environmental Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Trailer houses in very close proximity to the
suspect's house on two sides
, A street light in front of the suspect's house
Darkness
Snow on the ground
Suspects Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Comply, Resist or Flee
Remove factors that give the opportunity to resist or flee.
Behavioral Considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Suspect attempting to run from the house
Suspect's refusal to come to the door
Concealed Weapons and Devices - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Weapons and Security devices
Weapons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any force multiplier that can be used to cause harm.
Security Devices - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Items that can be used to remove handcuffs or retraints
Goal of Searching - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Be as thorough and systematic as possible
Elements of a Search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Be focused, deliberate, and objective, Start top of body
and work down, Visually search before touching whenever possible, when clothing lays flat, you can use
palm or back of hand, Use pinch/squeeze method for waistbands, For breastline/groin use blade/ridge
of hand, Visually search areas of exposed skin (do not touch)
What is the goal of any viable searching process? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To be thorough and
systematic
What is the recommended way to search clothing that lays relatively flat to the body? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Use the palm or back of the hand
