The SmartForce® Team
SmartForce Technologies Inc.
Have you ever been part of an incident involving multiple officers, multiple locations and multiple uses of force? While not frequent, it happens. Using a robbery as a scenario we share what you need to know from a data collection requirement (State and Federal), who reports it and how contacts and use of force are reported in CitizenContact.
In the scenario below, Officers will be required to report the following:
- Multiple contacts at four locations
- Use of force at three locations
- Unannounced entry at one location
- A show-up (eyewitness identification) at two locations
- Search and seizure of property at one location
Let’s dive into the robbery scenario.
One Officer at each location will complete the contact and use of force report for a total of four reports. Reports are completed in this manner based on the data structure published by Colorado DCJ and the detailed data structure required by FBI use of force reporting.
Scenario
Officers respond to the report of a robbery at a convenience store.
Three Officers are dispatched to the convenience store. The two suspects fled the scene in a vehicle driven by a third suspect.
Officer 1 locates the suspect vehicle while en route to the call. Officer 2 responds to assist.
Officers 1 and 2 follow the Citizen’s vehicle, and the vehicle crashes.
The three citizens run from the vehicle on foot in different directions.
Officer 4 arrives at the vehicle crash.
Officer 1 and Officer 4 chase Citizen 1 on foot and catch him a few hundred yards away.
Officer 1 uses a taser.
Officer 4 uses a baton on the same citizen and arrests him.
Officer 4 reports the contact for Citizen 1, including use of force. In this instance, the data would be state reportable only. The data would not be FBI reportable because:
- There was no serious physical injury or death
- There was no discharge of a firearm at or in the direction of the citizen
Officer 2 waits with the crashed vehicle. He contacts a witness who can identify the three suspects.
Officer 2 reports contact with Citizen 4, which includes reporting of a show-up (eyewitness identification) as required by the State.
Citizen 2 runs to a local school and hides on campus. Citizen 5 calls the police when they see Citizen 2 run to the school and hide. Three Officers respond to the school and locate the citizen.
Citizen 2 brandishes a firearm at the three Officers.
Two Officers discharge their firearms at Citizen 2, who is now deceased.
Officer 6 reports contact with Citizen 5, including a show-up (eyewitness identification).
Officer 5 reports contact with Citizen 2, including the use of force report for this location. In this instance, the data would be state and FBI reportable.
Citizen 3 runs to the home of Citizen 6. Citizen 6 hides Citizen 3 in the house.
Police K-9 tracks Citizen 3 to the house.
Citizen 6 allows the officers to search the house unannounced and they locate Citizen 3.
Two officers use force and arrest Citizen 3. Citizen 6 is arrested for Obstructing.
Officer 11 reports contact with Citizen 6 and Citizen 3, including the use of force report for this location. In this instance, the use of force would be state reportable only.
CitizenContact meets mandatory reporting requirements for the State of Colorado and FBI use of force. Utilizing a complex scenario sets the stage for how the report is completed and by who.
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