53 TRAINING OVERVIEW

53A. What are the differences between basic training in a parking lot and more advanced training on a closed road?

a. Parking lot training provides instruction of the handling of the Auto Spike system, deployment, lane, and system inspection without moving cars.

b. Track training is for the student that knows how to handle, deploy and recover the system. Track training is to test the officer in multiple traffic scenarios.

a. Classroom training is to learn the authorized and safe use of spikes, best locations, and department policy.

b. Review department policy on spikes.

c. Discuss the outdoor training procedures.

d. Hands-on training with the system.

53C. What are the suggested scenarios for conducting training in parking lots, and why is it important that these locations be locked or secured during practice?

a. The parking lot serves to practice scenarios for inspection, deployment, road width, and proper stance.

b. The parking lot serves as a location to learn how to handle the Auto-Spike.

c. The parking lot teaches the proper steps to set up, view traffic, deploy, and then recover the spikes.

d. The parking lot serves to practice on moving cars.

a. The two types of hands-on training is basic parking lot and track training with moving vehicles and special unspiked training units.

b. A basic parking lot class to become familar with the Auto-Spike.

c. A track training class for advanced training with training Spikes and moving cars.

c. The curbside deployment or pull also known as pre deployment method.

a. That you first do a parking lot class followed by a track training class.

b. That you do the more difficult track training first.

c. That you do not train with the spike system or trainer units unless you decide you need to.