California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 6 - Division of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 8.1 - Crisis Prevention Management
Article 1 - Use of Force
Section 30986 - Definitions

(a) Use of Force

Force used by an objective, trained, and competent Correctional Peace Officer, faced with similar facts and circumstances, to subdue an attacker, overcome resistance, effect custody, or gain compliance with a lawful order.

(b) Reasonable Force

The amount of force that an objective, trained, and competent Correctional Peace Officer, faced with similar facts and circumstances, would consider necessary and reasonable to subdue an attacker, overcome resistance, effect custody, or gain compliance with a lawful order.

(c) Unnecessary Force

The use of force that an objective, trained, and competent Correctional Peace Officer, faced with similar facts and circumstances, would consider unnecessary to subdue an attacker, overcome resistance, effect custody, or gain compliance with a lawful order.

(d) Excessive Force

The use of more force than an objective, trained, and competent Correctional Peace Officer, faced with similar facts and circumstances, would use to subdue an attacker, overcome resistance, effect custody, or gain compliance with a lawful order.

(e) Deadly Force

Any use of force that is likely to result in death.

(f) Great Bodily Injury

An injury that creates a substantial risk of death.

(g) Non-Deadly Force

A use of force option, as defined in Section 30987, subsection (b), which is greater than verbal persuasion but less than force that is likely to result in death.