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Identify the components of the Survival Circle. ✔Correct Answer-Mental Preparation, Tactics,
Physical Fitness, Equipment, Shooting Skills
Identify the Ten Deadly Errors ✔Correct Answer-1. Failure to maintain proficiency and care of
weapons, vehicle and equipment
2. Improper frisk, search, or use of hand cuffs
3. Not enough rest/sleep
4. Relaxing to soon
5. Missing Danger signs
6. Taking a bad position
7. Failure to watch the hands
8. Tombstone Courage
9. Preoccupation
10. Apathy (Complacency)
Identify those areas of personal lives which are directly affected by law enforcement career and
the countermeasures necessary to increase personal safety. ✔Correct Answer-1. Personal
Identity - Should be restricted to those with a "Need to know"
2. Carrying a weapon off duty - Agency Policy
3. Home Security - Physical security such as lighting, locks, shrubs, doors, and alarm systems
4. Air Travel - Keep your personal identification and your official identification separate
5. Police on Police Awareness - Identify yourself as police, notify 911, follow the orders of
uniformed officer.
Mental Preparation ✔Correct Answer-Foundation of Survival
Tactics ✔Correct Answer-The techniques and tools the law enforcement officers use in the
performance of their duties that give the officers an advantage over the adversary
Physical Fitness ✔Correct Answer-1. Aerobic Conditioning - activity which conditions the
cardiovascular system (heart and lungs)
2. Strength Training - allows development and maintenance of muscular strength and structure
3. Flexibility Training - helps the body to stay limber, increases speed of movement and helps to
prevent pulled muscles or back injuries
Equipment ✔Correct Answer-Should be the best available, understand how it functions,
limitations, working properly.
, Identify the definition of a critical incident ✔Correct Answer-An event requiring an
extraordinary degree of adaptation by the individual who experiences the event
Identify the definition of critical incident stress ✔Correct Answer-Stress experienced at any
level resulting from exposure to a critical incident
Identify the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder ✔Correct Answer-The development of
characteristic symptoms following a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of
usual human experience
Identify the physiological effects of critical incident stress ✔Correct Answer-1. Time Distortion
6. Intensified Sound
2. Slow Motion 7. Visual Distortion
3. Fast Motion 8. Tunnel Vision
4. Auditory Distortion 9. Heightened Sense Detail
5. Diminished Sound
Identify the psychological effects of critical incident stress ✔Correct Answer-Delayed critical
incident responses which may be experienced after the incident (immediate to delays - 0 to 7
days)
1. Denial
2. Isolation
3. Preoccupation with the event
Identify coping strategies to prepare for and techniques to reduce a critical incident exposure
✔Correct Answer-Resilience - the process of adapting well in the dace of adversity, trauma,
tragedy, threats, or even significant, sources of stress
Resilience - Mental and emotional toughness is achieved by; cognitive restructuring; which is
the changing a perception from a negative interpretation to a neutral or positive one, making it
less stressful
Techniques to reduce CIE -
On scene techniques - Talk to other officers; Visual prepare your mind for the sights of death;
Auditory prepare yourself for calmness, control and objective thinking for the emotional
displays of the victims/witnesses; Odors, be prepared for the smells of mutilated or burned
bodies, fumes of chemicals, or decay of flesh, vomit, and fecal matter
Post Incident Techniques - Accept what you feel, learn from it, examine your thoughts,
participate in CIS defusing debriefings
Identify the incident command system and how it relates to the first responder. ✔Correct
Answer-The Incident Command System (ICS) defines the operations characteristics,