Handcuffing

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Handcuffing

• Introduction
• Handcuffs are devices for temporarily restricting
  
• a subjects movements
• .

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Handcuff Maintenance
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Nomenclature
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Single Bar
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Double Bar
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Single Bar Teeth (ratchet)
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Hinge rivet
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Keyways
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Double-Lock Mechanism
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Pawl
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Swivel
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Chain
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Key
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Cleaning andDecontamination
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Mechanical Failures
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Keys
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Loading and Wearing
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Loading
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Location on the Officer
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Liabilities of Handcuff Application

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• Situations
• that the officer is justified in handcuffing the
  subject

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• 1.) When the subject has committed a crime

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• 2.) When the subject
• is an
• escape risk

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• 3.) When the subject is a
• safety hazard.

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• Keyhole positioning

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• Double-locking
• handcuffs will prevent subject injury

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• Types of Subjects

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• 1. Totally cooperative

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• 2. Potentially Uncooperative
• a subject who may resist at the first
  opportunity.

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3. Totally uncooperative

• a subject who will not submit to being
  handcuffed. Control subject first then handcuff

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• Tactical Considerations
• Tactical handcuffing
• is a technique which affords an officer a higher
  level of control over a subject during the
  handcuffing procedure by applying the tactical
  elements of

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• Approach to contact
• officer uses reactionary gap

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Control upon touch

• in order to defeat expect-ed resistance upon
  first touch

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• Speed of application
• to diffuse aggression or actions which may lead
  to aggression

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Grip

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The Draw
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Pistol grip
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Pistol grip

• Keep index middle and ring fingers in between
  the cuffs

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Single Bars Forward
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Keyways in the palm of your hand

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Positioning Procedures
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• Verbal Control

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• Position the subject
• with clear and concise verbal commands.

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• Suggested Commands

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• Standing

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• 1. Youre under arrest.2. Hands all the way
  up spread your fingers.3. Turn around
  slowly. Visual inspection for weapons4. Face
  away from me.5. Spread your feet apart
  further apart.6. Toes out.

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• 7. Extend your arms straight out to your side
  like an airplane - point your thumbs down.
• 8. Bend forward from the waist.
• Slowly bring your hands behind your back thumbs
  up.
• Interlock your fingers
• 10. Look to left/right.
• 11. Dont move.

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Kneeling
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• 1. Youre under arrest.
• 2. Hands all the way up spread your fingers.
• 3. Turn around slowly. Visual inspection for
  weapons
• 4. Face away from me.
• 5. Kneel down on one knee.
• 6. Kneel down on the other knee.

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• 7. Hands extended out to your side.
• 8. Cross your ankles.
• 9. Extend your arms straight out to your side
  shoulder high - point your thumbs down.
• 10.Bend forward at the waist.
• 11.Slowly bring your hands behind your back
  thumbs up interlock your fingers
• 12.Look to left/right.
• 13.Dont move.

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Prone
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• 1. Youre under arrest.
• 2. Hands all the way up spread your fingers.
• 3. Turn around slowly. Visual inspection for
  weapons
• 4. Face away from me.
• 5. Kneel down on one knee.
• 6. Kneel down on both knees.

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• 7. Walk your feet back towards me and Lie down.
• 8. Extend your arms straight out to your side
  shoulder high - point your thumbs down.
• 9. Cross your ankles bend your knees.
• 10.Slowly bring your hands behind your back
  thumbs up interlock your fingers.
• 11.Look to left/right.
• 12.Dont move.

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• Wall Positions

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• 1. The use of cars or walls are not necessarily
  the best way to control the subject. The subject
  chooses to resist he can use walls cars etc. as
  balance and gain power by pushing off. Officers
  normally use this technique to corner or
  confine the subject.

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• 2. Standing - the subjects toes should be placed
  against the wall.

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• 3. Kneeling - the subjects knees should be
  placed against the wall.

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Approach Procedure
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• Avoid
• fully entering the
• Reactionary Gap

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• Approach from
• Relative Position
• 2

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Reactionary Gap

• Personal Zone

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• Extend your arms while applying handcuffs to
  maintain extra distance and to increase the
  peripheral field of vision.

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• Always be
• mentally prepared
• for
• sudden resistance

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• Expect resistance after
• handcuffing the first hand if the subject is
  under the influence of alcohol
• (Croft Study et al)

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Handcuffing Positions

• 1. Standing Cuffing2. Kneeling Cuffing3. Prone
  Cuffing

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Takedown with Handcuffs

• Wristlocks

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Awareness During Handcuffing
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• A. Upon approaching a subject to handcuff the
  officer should stay outside the reactionary gap.
  By doing so if resistance is encountered the
  officer has the option of penetrating the gap to
  obtain control or disengaging contact.

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Reactionary Gap
1
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• Personal Zone

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The officer should always be mentally prepared
for resistance
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Always double lock handcuffs except when
tactically hazardous.
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• Check tightness of handcuffs
• using the width of the little finger.

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• If a subject complains of handcuff tightness
• check handcuffs and document complaint.

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Moving the subject to a standing position
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One officer stand
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Never pick a subject up by the handcuffs.
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Removing the Handcuffs
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Officer Power Stance
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Remove in reverse order
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Grip Chain
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Verbal Commands to control hands
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Close first cuff before going to the second
cuff.