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\n\n--- Page 1 ---\n\nTALLAHASSEE POLICE DEPARTMENT GENERAL ORDERS SUBJECT High-Risk Incidents CHIEF OF POLICE Signature on File Proudly Policing Since 1841 Nationally Accredited 1986 NUMBER ORIGINAL ISSUE CURRENT REVISION TOTAL PAGES 26 07/15/1985 07/15/2024 20 AUTHORITY/RELATED REFERENCES CIRC 2.2, Active Threat/Shooter Response General Order 18, Criminal Investigations General Order 36, News Media Relations General Order 75, Tactical Apprehension and Control Team General Order 86, Special Response Team PTL-9, Watch Commander Special Order 1, Emergency Management Procedures Special Order 2 (Mass Casualty Incident) ACCREDITATION REFERENCES CALEA Chapters 11, 41, 46, 81 KEY WORD INDEX Additional Protocols Procedure XI Annual Review of Policy and Training Procedure XIII CDA Responsibilities Procedure XII General Responsibilities and Guidelines Procedure I Lifesaving Hierarchy Procedure III Perimeters Procedure VI Planning and Preparation Procedure II Response Priority and Awareness Procedure IV Responsibilities – First Officer(s) on Scene Procedure V Responsibilities – First Supervisor on Scene Procedure VII Responsibilities – Incident Commander Procedure VIII Responsibilities – Support Officers Procedure IX Reunification Procedures Procedure X\n\n--- Page 2 ---\n\nTALLAHASSEE POLICE DEPARTMENT POLICY The Department shall establish procedures and training for properly addressing high-risk incidents including active assailant events. Officers are responsible for adhering to established procedures and associated training when responding to such incidents in an effort to prevent or reduce injuries or loss of human life, locate, and eliminate threats, and isolate and contain the incident. DEFINITIONS Active Assailant: One or more people who participate in a life-threatening assault and demonstrate their intent to continuously or systematically kill or wound others. Active Assailant Event (AAE): A high-risk incident where one or more active assailants act to harm or kill others. Such events include, but are not limited to: school shootings, workplace violence, terrorist activities, and snipers. Active Threat: A deliberate incident that poses an immediate or imminent danger to citizens and responding officers by the suspect’s use of a firearm or other weapon or implement intended to cause harm (e.g., ongoing shooting incident at a mall or school). Active Threat Suppression: The act to stop a threat to a person by locating, isolating, capturing, or applying the lawful use of appropriate force against any person posing such threat. Barricaded Subject: A person who takes a position of confinement to avoid apprehension (the use or threatened use of force to resist apprehension shall have been displayed through actions or words and the officer shall have reason to believe the suspect will use force to avoid apprehension). A barricaded subject situation is not one where active deadly force is occurring or where there are victims of deadly force with life threatening injuries who need to be immediately rescued, as that is a high-risk incident (AAE). Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program: The Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program was established in 2018 through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. Guardians are armed personnel who aid in the prevention or abatement of active assailant incidents on school premises. They are either school employees who volunteer to serve in addition to official job duties or personnel hired for the specific purpose of serving as a school guardian. Casualty Collection Point (CCP): A temporary location(s) in the Warm Zone where injured (not deceased) victims can be quickly and safely assembled until it is feasible to move the patients to the Triage Post or another formal treatment area. Patients brought to the CCP must be checked for weapons prior to entry. GENERAL ORDER 26 PAGE 2 of 20 HIGH-RISK INCIDENTS JULY 15, 2024\n\n--- Page 3 ---\n\nTALLAHASSEE POLICE DEPARTMENT Command Post: The field headquarters from where the Incident Commander directs activities related to the high-risk incident. It can be informally or formally established depending on available resources and the incident location. This may include where the Unified Command is located. Contact Team: A team formed by the first two to five officers to arrive on scene who are capable of immediate response to a high-risk incident. Critical Incident Stress Management Team (CISM): A multi-faceted team comprised of agency and outside personnel that includes trained mental health professionals and religious volunteers. Deceased Victim Staging Area: An area within the outer perimeter to where deceased victims are transported for identification, processing by the Medical Examiner and subsequent transportation to the Medical Examiner’s Office. High-Risk Incident: Any situation involving an act of violence or potential act of violence in which officers, in the course of their official duties, may be at a tactical disadvantage and are reasonably believed to be subject to extreme danger. These incidents include, but are not limited to, hostage takings, active assailant events, armed barricaded felony suspects, armed barricaded suicidal persons who are a threat to others, bombings or explosions due to criminal act, sniper incidents, active shootings and other active threats, certain crowd control incidents, and certain pre-planned arrest/search/surveillance operations. Hostage Situation: Incidents involving an act or potential act of violence where an innocent person(s) is being held against their will and may include a situation where the person is used as a bargaining tool or a “shield.” Incident Commander: The highest-ranking officer who has assumed command at the scene of a high-risk incident. The Incident Commander is solely responsible for managing the entire incident, to include: approval of the tactical plan, deployment of personnel, development of staff functions to control the incident, coordination of contributing agencies, ordering and releasing of resources, and the release of information pertaining to the incident. The Incident Commander shall be based at the Command Post. Officer: An employee who is a certified police officer as described in FS Chapter 943. Operational Zones: Zone designations which are dynamic and change as the incidents develop. Cold Zone: An area where there is no threat level and law enforcement has designated it as secure. The Command Post (including Unified Command), patient triage, treatment, and transport are organized and located in this zone. GENERAL ORDER 26 PAGE 3 of 20 HIGH-RISK INCIDENTS JULY 15, 2024\n\n--- Page 4 ---\n\n\n\n--- Page 5 ---\n\nTALLAHASSEE POLICE DEPARTMENT Public Information Office (PIO): Consisting of the Director and Assistant Director of Communications, the office disseminates information to the public and media at the direction of the Chief of Police or designee. Rescue Task Force (RTF): A rapid medical response team that operates in the Warm Zone under the protection of officers. These teams rapidly assess and stabilize major trauma and they extricate the injured to treatment areas or temporary staging areas, such as CCPs. Teams are minimally composed of one Paramedic, one EMT, and at least one officer. Reunification Post (RP): A post established where victims are transported to be reunited with family and friends and for victims’ family and friends to await the rescue and debriefing of victims involved in the incident. Single Officer Response: An officer, regardless of rank, who arrives at a high- risk incident and determines that it is necessary to respond alone to engage the active assailant and neutralize the threat. This officer will use the best information available and advance towards the threat using agency trained tactics to engage the active assailant. Special Response Team (SRT): A group of officers who have received specialized training in tactics which address volatile civil disturbances u