SW LEA CHAPTER 11 HFRG WEAPON
RETENTION / DISARMING EXAM
2024/2025
Identify the four weapon retention survival strategies that are used to
enhance the officer's survival and response time to a spontaneous threat:
- Precise Answer ✔✔Maintain the reactionary gap, identify threatening
body language, develop a pre-determined survival response, maintain
psychological control of the subject and the environment.
Identify the level of resistance the officer encounters when a subject is
attempting to take their weapons: - Precise Answer ✔✔The level should
be considered as deadly force and it is imperative that the officer
controls the weapon and the subject.
Identify the four principles of weapon retention: - Precise Answer
✔✔Stabilize the grip, pull the weapon to center, release and stun,
distract if the release fails
Describe the lateral forearm strike (holstered retention) technique: -
Precise Answer ✔✔Designed to defeat a holstered weapon attack using
control principles of leverage, pain compliance and motor dysfunction.
Secure the weapon with both hands over the subject's hands and weapon.
Lean over the weapon to weaken the subject's grip, deliver a forearm
strike to the subject's wrist or forearm
RETENTION / DISARMING EXAM
2024/2025
Identify the four weapon retention survival strategies that are used to
enhance the officer's survival and response time to a spontaneous threat:
- Precise Answer ✔✔Maintain the reactionary gap, identify threatening
body language, develop a pre-determined survival response, maintain
psychological control of the subject and the environment.
Identify the level of resistance the officer encounters when a subject is
attempting to take their weapons: - Precise Answer ✔✔The level should
be considered as deadly force and it is imperative that the officer
controls the weapon and the subject.
Identify the four principles of weapon retention: - Precise Answer
✔✔Stabilize the grip, pull the weapon to center, release and stun,
distract if the release fails
Describe the lateral forearm strike (holstered retention) technique: -
Precise Answer ✔✔Designed to defeat a holstered weapon attack using
control principles of leverage, pain compliance and motor dysfunction.
Secure the weapon with both hands over the subject's hands and weapon.
Lean over the weapon to weaken the subject's grip, deliver a forearm
strike to the subject's wrist or forearm
