Types of Forces | December 18
2012
| Phoenix University | Checkpoint 1 week 6 |

Types of Force There are 5 types of forces officers can use on duty. These 5 types of forces are: Use of authority, use of body, use of restraints, less than lethal weapons, and deadly force. Use of authority is the minimal level of those five, officers will use their tone, choice of words body language and the way they position themselves to send certain messages to suspects to keep order. The second of the 5 is "use of body", this force allows officers to use pushing, restraints, holding, hitting and choking in situations that deem it necessary, for example if a suspect is unruly, runs from Officers, or those that ignores the officers signals of peace.

Police officers will engage themselves in many different situations on duty. They have no choice but to get into these particular situations, so that they can help keep order and prevent chaos from spreading to other areas. These particular situations can be very unpredictable, so police officers are trained to look out for anything that may be of harm to them, or everyone else around. The force officers will mimic the situations they are taking care of. If the situation they are trying to calm is very strong and can prove dangerous, police officers will try an adapt themselves this particular situations. If the situations is dangerous police officers will begin to take precaution, and will attempt on using a very high level of force to help apprehend the suspect, if the suspect is proven