CECsst.227


TITLE:  LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY

AUTHOR:  Rex Hefner, Okemah High School; Okemah, OK

GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECTS:  Social Sciences  9-12

OVERVIEW:  This activity is for High School level people to
introduce them to a law officers point of view.  Teaches
them reasons for safety.

PURPOSE:  Teaches reasoning and responsibilities of both law
officer and person being stopped.

OBJECTIVE(S):  Students will learn the tensions and quick
agile thinking and reasoning skills needed to control a
potentially dangerous situation.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS NEEDED:  Cars, police units, officers,
deserted stretch of road.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
     Have local police, trooper, law enforcement demonstrate
the high risk felony stop procedures vs. routine traffic
stops.  Then have students role play both sides.
     Have several students get in a car, have the car
stopped by police unit and demo a routine traffic ticket.
Next have officer demo a high risk felony stop with students
playing the role of felons.  Have the officer show how you
remove them from vehicle in the safest manner possible.
Next let student interchange as the felons, then as the
extracting officer.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER:  My students really enjoyed this
activity.  They got to be both the good guy and bad guy.
They better understood the risk to the officer and the
protection of the citizen.