102. ROAD WIDTH / DEPLOYMENT

A. Count steps to determine roadway length.

B. You need to have a way to determine where the spikes are in the dark, and far off the road.

C. Know the width of typical lanes and the width of your spike system.

D. Dont worry about the positioning of the spikes, call ahead for another deployment.

A. Seeing the curb, roadway, and lanes is difficult, especially from a distance.

B. You might not be able to see system and its location on the roadway.

C. A wider Spike system is more forgiving at night and more effective.

C. Don’t worry guess where the system is.

A. It depends on visibity, and if you can correctly target the vehicle.

B. If you cant position spikes, due to low visibity, center the spikes in the lane.

C. Just guess at it, your going to be accurate, darkness of night is not an issue.

A. With all slack pulled out of the cord.

B. Once positioned in the stance, with slack pulled from cord.

D. Anywhere you want to, it doesn’t matter.

A. Take steps to deploy the system on the roadway.

B. Grab the cord and start pulling it with your hand, in a hand over hand sequence.

C. Do it anyway you want, it don’t matter.

A. So they can better position spikes, from a distance and in low light conditions.

B. So they can better target the vehicle they wish to spike.

C. Roadwidths are most often 10 feet wide and 12 feet wide on expressways.

D. It don’t matter, just look and guess.

A. So they can stay far off the road and use concealment and or cover for protection.

B. So they can provide a cover deployment and use protective cover.

C. No objective, bad idea you can’t see the spikes nor traffic from a remote location.

A. It’s important because so that officers can set up the systems accurately and in correct lane.

B. Officers that are not trained properly will have issues if systems are deployed from distant location especially at night.

C. Officers don’t need much training targeting the vehicle at night is easy even far distance off the road.

A. No, no need.

B. Yes, «Spike system should be pre-deployed across two lanes unwinding cord, start counting steps from edge of road and not the number at the center of each lane and center of the roadway.

C. When we know how many steps we have well know where the system should be at to get effective result.

A. Officer will be in ready position.

B. Officer will point out the target and deploy spikes.

C. Point out the direction the pursuit is coming from the deployment area and his cover.

D. Watching on coming traffic, officer will wait for deployment window.

E. Once last car had pass and targeted the vehicle, allowing for deployment.

F. Just do what feels right.

A. Moving from stance position to deploying by counting off your steps to deploy into the proper lane.

B. Deploying into the center of the lanes.

C. Instructor doesn’t have to give any directions officer got everything under control because he received training.

D. Officer is not really focus on control of system from a remote area.

E. Officers that are able to control the system from a remote are develop a skill so in a actual pursuit they depend on proximity to the target car for deployment.