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need for force, and increase voluntary compliance (e.g., summoning additional resources, formulating a <br />plan, attempting verbal persuasion). <br />300.3.2 USE OF FORCE TO EFFECT AN ARREST <br />An officer may use reasonable force (Minn. Stat. § 609.06 and Minn. Stat. § 629.33): <br />a. In effecting a lawful arrest. <br />b. In the execution of a legal process. <br />c. In enforcing an order of the court. <br />d. In executing any other duty imposed by law. <br />e. In preventing the escape, or to retake following the escape, of a person lawfully held on a <br />charge or conviction of a crime. <br />f. In restraining a person with a mental illness or a person with a developmental disability from <br />self -injury or injury to another. <br />g. In self-defense or defense of another. <br />An officer who makes or attempts to make an arrest need not retreat or desist from his/her efforts by <br />reason of resistance or threatened resistance of the person being arrested; nor shall such officer be <br />deemed the aggressor or lose his/her right to self-defense by the use of reasonable force to effect the <br />arrest or to prevent escape or to overcome resistance. <br />300.3.3 FACTORS USED TO DETERMINE THE REASONABLENESS OF FORCE <br />When determining whether to apply force and evaluating whether an officer has used reasonable force, <br />a number of factors should be taken into consideration, as time and circumstances permit. These factors <br />include but are not limited to: <br />a. Immediacy and severity of the threat to officers or others. <br />b. The conduct of the individual being confronted, as reasonably perceived by the officer at the <br />time. <br />c. Officer/subject factors (e.g., age, size, relative strength, skill level, injuries sustained, level of <br />exhaustion or fatigue, the number of officers available vs. subjects). <br />d. The effects of suspected drug or alcohol use. <br />e. The individual's mental state or capacity. <br />f. The individual's ability to understand and comply with officer commands. <br />g. Proximity of weapons or dangerous improvised devices. <br />h. The degree to which the individual has been effectively restrained and his/her ability to resist <br />despite being restrained. <br />