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Street Cop Podcast

Always Watch the Hands

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In this throwback, Dennis talks about the importance of watching hands during a motor vehicle stop. Recorded on 05/02/2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One 11.

0:01.0

One time.

0:02.0

I'm trying to be a street cop.

0:10.0

All right, I feel compelled to give you guys one more piece of advice where I left today because I wanted to give you the most quality.

0:17.0

It's stuff out of these videos and this training.

0:20.0

I want to show you guys get a good, good thing, and I want to send you out there to win and put you in a position to win and to be safe. And here's the deal. When you're talking to people or you're approaching cars, you've always got to focus on where somebody's hands are in the car. That will tell you what's going through their mind. You can walk up to a car and have somebody putting their hand into their seat. You couldn't want to tell that person, hey man, let me see your hands. You know, I've screamed to people to show me their hands. And I'm not advising on every situation to scream to people to show you their hands. But make sure when you walk up and approach a car, and you're looking into that car and you're standing for contraband and other things. my advice to you is your primary focus, your number one focus,

0:56.1

should be where people's hands are. Run that through your head nonstop. Run that through your head

1:01.8

nonstop. Where are people's hands? Where are they going? What are they trying to do? That will tell

1:07.1

you a lot about what's going on. Always, always, always watch people's hands.

1:11.6

You must remain conscious to this as you're making motor vehicle stops.

1:15.4

And even in a situation where you're approaching people in general,

1:17.6

if you're going to watch people's hands start going,

1:19.3

they're going to tell you what their plan is next.

1:21.6

They're going to be telegraphing that to you.

1:23.0

So when you approach a motor vehicle, make sure, make sure you are watching hands.

1:28.7

think about that you heard.

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