Duties
Possible duties of a CERT team include transport of high risk inmates, extracting uncooperative prisoners from their cells, daily full cell searches and high profile security, barricaded persons, riots, mass arrest, high risk/high profile transport and hostages situations, as well as crowd control. While, in the United States various details regarding CERT organization and training requirements differ from state to state, a standard CERT team organization is similar to that employed by the as shown below:
- Team Leader "Leads". Spoken communication skills, anger de-escalation techniques.
- The Equipment/Video Member "EQV" To capture the entire response on video.
- CERT Member "1" Lead member, first in to deal with the inmate.
- CERT Member "2" Second team member in.
- CERT Member "3" Minimal protective gear on to allow for maximum speed
- CERT Member "4" Same as CERT-3.
CERT team members are outfitted with extensive gear, including body armor, helmet, tactical gloves, handcuffs, riot shield and firearms.
Read more about this topic: Correctional Emergency Response Team
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