OTP-PRL: an app for occupational risk prevention in policing activities

Vera-Jiménez, José C.; Ferreiro-González, Marta; Barbero, Gerardo F.; Álvarez, José Ángel Pérez; Fernández-Zacarías, Francisco; Ayuso, Jesús

doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7935-2

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“…The manuals are intended to help officers brush up previously learnt procedures and techniques and also to implement them as physical intervention techniques (PITs) in troublesome situations. Some procedures have evolved into new PITs known as operational tactical procedures (OTPs) [44,54].…”

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A Legal and Forensic Medicine Approach to Police Physical Intervention Techniques in High-Risk Situations

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Lorente

González-Herrera

et al. 2020

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Background: The physical intervention techniques (PITs) typically used by the police in troublesome situations are examined in terms of injuring potential depending on whether they target a body zone of high, medium or low vulnerability. Based on legal and forensic considerations, and principles of congruence, opportunity and proportionality, a need exists to favor opponent locking and arrest techniques targeting non-vulnerable zones to minimize the risk of severe damage. Methods: A search of the training manuals for the different kind of law of enforcement officers was carried out. Revision of injuries was available from electronic databases of academic o medical journals. Results: Three different locking and arrest PITs based on operational tactical procedures (OTP) that avoid zones of high or medium vulnerability are proposed. The new techniques use blocking, diverting and grabbing of the upper and lower limbs, followed by dislocation and locking of the same targets. Conclusions: The damaging potential of such PITs was assessed in terms of anatomical region and most were found to have a high risk of severe damage. The alternative PITs proposed here, which rely on OTP, improve in legal and forensic medical terms on existing choices and dramatically reduce the risk of injuring arrestees.

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“…The proposed PIT displayed in Figures 1-3, avoid the high vulnerability red areas, leading a reduction of the rate of causing serious injuries. All of the proposed techniques are the result of many years of work and were successfully tested in real situations [54]. To do so, police officers from different countries of the world were trained.…”

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A Legal and Forensic Medicine Approach to Police Physical Intervention Techniques in High-Risk Situations

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“…isolated techniques and tactics, instructors should take into consideration the decision-making capacity of the students in real situations to overcome their own limitations and gain experience. Furthermore, emotions such as stress, fear or anger should also be taken into account for a more effective intervention (Miller, 2017) [21].…”

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A Multidisciplinary Vision of the Criminal, Social and Occupational Risk Consequences of the Use of Police Force

Vera-Jiménez¹,

Villero-Carro²,

González-Herrera³

et al. 2023

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(1) Background: the use of force by Public and Private Security Forces is currently an issue of great relevance because of the potential injuries that any excessive use of force by either the active or passive subjects or a deficit in the real mastery of the appropriate Physical Intervention Techniques (PIT) may cause. For this reason, certain traditionally used Physical Intervention Techniques have been questioned by scientific research studies and punished by justice. On the other hand, certain media have dealt with this matter in a biased and unfair manner by broadcasting videos where the use of force by police officer is displayed out of context. As a consequence, this problem has been brought under the spotlight, causing general uneasiness of the communities and rapidly spreading over social networks while favoring all sorts of parallel judgments. (2) Research method: A suit equipped with 19 Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and a Biomechanics of Bodies software application for the Marras’ analysis of the data collected on trajectory, trunk twisting velocity, its sagittal angle, load, nature and severity of the injuries associated to the different intervention techniques that have been examined. (3) Results: according to the data registered, the implementation of Operational Tactical Procedures (OTP) reduces the probability of injuries and leads to a more satisfactory outcome. (4) Conclusions: the implementation of Operational Tactical Procedures, to-gether with the awareness on the risks associated to the excessive use of force by Public and Private Security Forces and Bodies, could reduce the risk of injuries suffered by both officers and citizens.

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OTP-PRL: an app for occupational risk prevention in policing activities

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A Legal and Forensic Medicine Approach to Police Physical Intervention Techniques in High-Risk Situations

A Legal and Forensic Medicine Approach to Police Physical Intervention Techniques in High-Risk Situations

A Multidisciplinary Vision of the Criminal, Social and Occupational Risk Consequences of the Use of Police Force

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