Does your Use of Force Policy require verbal warnings, when possible, before using deadly force?

Policy 300.4 (b) addresses verbal warnings with respect to all deadly force encounters - not just shootings:

“An officer may use deadly force to stop a fleeing subject when the officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed, or intends to commit, a felony involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious bodily injury or death, and the officer reasonably believes that there is an imminent risk of serious bodily injury or death to any other person if the subject is not immediately apprehended. Under such circumstances, a verbal warning should precede the use of deadly force, where feasible.”

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1. Does your Use of Force Policy allow officers to use chokeholds or strangleholds?
2. Does your Use of Force Policy ban shooting at moving vehicles?
3. Does your Use of Force Policy include a duty to intervene provision?
4. Does your Use of Force Policy require a "use of force continuum?"
5. Does your Use of Force Policy require verbal warnings, when possible, before using deadly force?
6. Does your Use of Force Policy require de-escalation and are MPD officers receiving training in the best practices of de-escalation?
7. Does your Use of Force Policy require officers to exhaust all alternatives before resorting to deadly force?
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