Access (police)
In police tactics, access is an operational police act in order to transfer a person into sovereign custody .
The riskier the access, the more forces are required to carry out the measure. In the case of armed targets, special units are involved in access. It is immediately followed by arrest , arrest or police custody .
Accesses are ideally managed and planned and are under the direction of a manager , at least one group or patrol leader .
Strictly speaking, every incipient deprivation of liberty or restriction of liberty by the police is an access. If the target person is uncooperative, direct coercion can be applied subject to the legal limits and the maintenance of proportionality . In special police documents , such as Amoklagen , an emergency access takes place, one may use of weapons includes.
