CRIM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Grievous Bodily Harm, Officer (Armed Forces), Indictable Offence
15 Mar 2016
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Week 8: police use of force: background, tacics, and training. Introducion: authority to use force is a deining feature of policing (griith, 2012, in reality police rarely use force: 0. 7% of encounters across canada involve the use of force (griiths, 2012) The situaion: anything about the circumstance that you"re dealing with is a situaional factor . Force science research: a growing are of research encompassing the ield of biology, psychology, neurology, and physiology, areas of study include: Efects of physical exerion on recall and recogniion. Reacion imes in lethal force encounters ime to stop: non consensus among police regarding the viability of this research. The dynamic nature of force encounters: situaions in which oicers know that the use of force is a deinite possibility en route to the scene. Serving a high-risk warrant: these are situaions in which oicers may be more likely to use intermediate (planned) weapons, situaions that escalate from innocuous to dangerous.
