Safety Tip: Foot Pursuits

Analyze the risks & benefits during your first few steps

 


 

Ralph Mroz | From the June 2006 Issue Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The decision to run after someone involves a risk-benefit analysis. As you reflexively start running, make the analysis by asking yourself these questions during your first few steps:

  • Is this guy a danger to society?
  • Is he armed?
  • Can I take him?
  • Am I alone?
  • Will he have buddies?
  • How can this go bad on me?

Make these questions instinctive by running through a few simulations every year in various terrains and with various outcomes. These simulations take no equipment, no funds and only a few minutes.




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Ralph MrozRalph Mroz is a police officer in Western Massachusetts, currently assigned to his county's drug task force. He is the co-founder and training director of the Police Officers Safety Association (POSA). The POSA provides free force-training video programs to police officers. To obtain them, visit www.posai.org.

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