SCCJA Defensive Tactics Test Review (2025) – Study Guide and Law Enforcement
Training Revision Material
Defensive tactics: - correct answer ✔✔is a system of controlled defensive and offensive body
movements used by criminal justice officers to respond to a subject's aggression or resistance
These techniques are based on: - correct answer ✔✔a combination of martial arts, wrestling,
and boxing
Vital to the development of these skills: - correct answer ✔✔Fitness, strength, agility, balance,
and flexibility
The role of defensive tactics in law enforcement and corrections is to: - correct answer
✔✔assist the officer in restraining or arresting a subject, thus increasing officer and public
safety
Defensive tactics is a physical endeavor, students should: - correct answer ✔✔eat a nutritious
diet, get adequate rest, and stay sufficiently hydrated
A warm up session elevates the: - correct answer ✔✔heart rate and increases blood circulation
to the muscles, which saturates the muscles with oxygen
Cardiovascular training: - correct answer ✔✔is any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a
range between 60 to 85 percent of the maximum rate
Function of Protein: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy; builds repairs body cells; is part of
various enzymes, hormones, antibodies
,Sources of Protein: - correct answer ✔✔Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, legumes (such as lentils), milk
and milk products, vegetables, grains
Function of Carbohydrates: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy needed by the brain, nervous
system, red blood cells, and other cells
Sources of Carbohydrates: - correct answer ✔✔Breads, cereal grains, pasta rice, fruit,
vegetables, milk, sugar
Function of Fat: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy and essential fatty acids; carries other fat-
soluble nutrients (vitamins); is part of cell membranes, membranes around nerves, hormones,
bile (for fat digestion
Sources of Fat: - correct answer ✔✔Meat, poultry, fish, milk and milk products, nuts, and seeds,
oils, butter, margarine, salad dressing
Proper rest and sleep are: - correct answer ✔✔necessary for reaching maximum performance
and maintaining focus while engaged in physical training
Chapter 776, F.S.: - correct answer ✔✔governs all use of force by criminal justice officers
A law enforcement officer, or any person whom the officer has summoned or directed to assist
him or her, need: - correct answer ✔✔not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest
because of resistance or threatened resistance. The officer is justified in the use of any force
Chapter 944, F.S.: - correct answer ✔✔specifically addresses the use of force by state
correctional and correctional probation officers
, Chapter 945, F.S.; - correct answer ✔✔establishes that the Department of Corrections has
jurisdiction over the supervisory and protective care, custody, and control of inmates and
offenders
Objective Reasonableness: - correct answer ✔✔to describe the process for evaluating the
appropriateness of an officer's response to a subject's resistance.
Appropriate force is: - correct answer ✔✔the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an
arrest
Graham vs. Connor: - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Supreme Court said, the reasonableness of a
particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the
scene would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hingsight
Authority to use Force: A law enforcement officer's authority to use force is established by: -
correct answer ✔✔the officer's reasonable belief that a crime has been, is being, or is about to
be committed.
Compliance is: - correct answer ✔✔verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority
without apparent threat of resistance or violence
Escalation is: - correct answer ✔✔increasing the use of force resistance
De-escalation is: - correct answer ✔✔decreasing the use of force or resistance
Disengagement is: - correct answer ✔✔discontinuing a command or physical use of force
Force Guidelines: - correct answer ✔✔provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force by criminal justice officers.
Training Revision Material
Defensive tactics: - correct answer ✔✔is a system of controlled defensive and offensive body
movements used by criminal justice officers to respond to a subject's aggression or resistance
These techniques are based on: - correct answer ✔✔a combination of martial arts, wrestling,
and boxing
Vital to the development of these skills: - correct answer ✔✔Fitness, strength, agility, balance,
and flexibility
The role of defensive tactics in law enforcement and corrections is to: - correct answer
✔✔assist the officer in restraining or arresting a subject, thus increasing officer and public
safety
Defensive tactics is a physical endeavor, students should: - correct answer ✔✔eat a nutritious
diet, get adequate rest, and stay sufficiently hydrated
A warm up session elevates the: - correct answer ✔✔heart rate and increases blood circulation
to the muscles, which saturates the muscles with oxygen
Cardiovascular training: - correct answer ✔✔is any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a
range between 60 to 85 percent of the maximum rate
Function of Protein: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy; builds repairs body cells; is part of
various enzymes, hormones, antibodies
,Sources of Protein: - correct answer ✔✔Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, legumes (such as lentils), milk
and milk products, vegetables, grains
Function of Carbohydrates: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy needed by the brain, nervous
system, red blood cells, and other cells
Sources of Carbohydrates: - correct answer ✔✔Breads, cereal grains, pasta rice, fruit,
vegetables, milk, sugar
Function of Fat: - correct answer ✔✔Provides energy and essential fatty acids; carries other fat-
soluble nutrients (vitamins); is part of cell membranes, membranes around nerves, hormones,
bile (for fat digestion
Sources of Fat: - correct answer ✔✔Meat, poultry, fish, milk and milk products, nuts, and seeds,
oils, butter, margarine, salad dressing
Proper rest and sleep are: - correct answer ✔✔necessary for reaching maximum performance
and maintaining focus while engaged in physical training
Chapter 776, F.S.: - correct answer ✔✔governs all use of force by criminal justice officers
A law enforcement officer, or any person whom the officer has summoned or directed to assist
him or her, need: - correct answer ✔✔not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest
because of resistance or threatened resistance. The officer is justified in the use of any force
Chapter 944, F.S.: - correct answer ✔✔specifically addresses the use of force by state
correctional and correctional probation officers
, Chapter 945, F.S.; - correct answer ✔✔establishes that the Department of Corrections has
jurisdiction over the supervisory and protective care, custody, and control of inmates and
offenders
Objective Reasonableness: - correct answer ✔✔to describe the process for evaluating the
appropriateness of an officer's response to a subject's resistance.
Appropriate force is: - correct answer ✔✔the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an
arrest
Graham vs. Connor: - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Supreme Court said, the reasonableness of a
particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the
scene would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hingsight
Authority to use Force: A law enforcement officer's authority to use force is established by: -
correct answer ✔✔the officer's reasonable belief that a crime has been, is being, or is about to
be committed.
Compliance is: - correct answer ✔✔verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority
without apparent threat of resistance or violence
Escalation is: - correct answer ✔✔increasing the use of force resistance
De-escalation is: - correct answer ✔✔decreasing the use of force or resistance
Disengagement is: - correct answer ✔✔discontinuing a command or physical use of force
Force Guidelines: - correct answer ✔✔provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force by criminal justice officers.
