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Street Cop Podcast

Using Contact and Cover

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9933 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this rerun episode, Dennis talks about the very important subject of using contact and cover tactics. Recorded on 05/02/2017. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0

One another one can't get a way.

0:02.0

I don't know.

0:05.0

You trying to be a hot down.

0:07.0

You trying to be a street cop?

0:10.0

All right to the office little early this morning and I'm going to bring a video to you guys before I had to run out and do a few things today.

0:17.0

Just to make sure I got one in and I know I've been doing a few things basically on the New Jersey level from the past couple days, but I do want to talk about some stuff that's going to apply to everybody.

0:25.0

And that's employing contact and cover. I know it sounds like it's some bullshit academy thing, but I can't tell many times in the field that I called for a backup unit that I needed for an

0:33.0

investigatory stop and a guy showed up and began asking questions to my

0:37.5

passengers and my detained occupants. I am not calling a second unit because I need a detective come to the scene and figure out

0:45.2

that all the shit that I've already figured out.

0:46.5

I keep telling how many times guys showed up and go, they're like, hey where are you guys coming from?

0:50.7

Where are you heading to today?

0:52.1

Hey bro, or sister I didn't call you

0:55.6

here because I needed you to ask questions at the beginning investigation I've

0:59.9

already gotten that covered for the past five minutes. I need the secondary unit to

1:03.7

stand here off to the side of the road to watch traffic, the car, and the

1:08.9

occupants to make sure that you, me, and them don't die in some kind of crazy, crazy invent that may have

1:16.6

unfold on the side of the road.

1:18.5

So know who you are.

1:20.0

If you show up as a contact officer, I'm sorry, as a cover officer, and you know you're there providing cover, you're a safety officer, you're not an investigator.

1:29.0

So if you show up and maybe you see something that your partner didn't see.

1:32.7

We want to say to them, hey man, come over here,

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