What are the measures of direct coercion?
Measures of direct coercion include:
- physical force (in the form of restraining locks and similar defensive or offensive techniques),
it may be used for the purpose of incapacitation, as a response to an assault, or as means of coercion to perform the commanded action.
- handcuffs
they are used, among others, towards detained persons in order to prevent their escape or prevent an assault or active resistance.
- police batons to prevent an assault or active resistance, or to counteract destruction of property.
A police officer cannot use the police baton towards persons using the methods of passive resistance (e.g. sitting on the pavement, handcuffed to a tree), unless application of physical force turned out to be ineffective, as well towards persons or persons towards whom other coercive measures have been used.
