Use of force record. A printable record for an incident where physical intervention occurred — what led to it, what was done, what happened afterwards, and the reporting that has to follow.

This record exists because physical intervention is the point at which a security contract is most exposed, and the account written in the following hour is the one that will be relied on. It is a record of what happened — not a justification, and not an assessment of whether it was reasonable.

That distinction is the whole design of the sheet. Whether force was reasonable is a question of law decided on the facts by somebody else, and an officer writing their own conclusion into the record has helpfully provided the first thing that will be taken apart. The form asks what was done and what preceded it, and leaves the judgement where it belongs.

What was tried first is the most valuable section. De-escalation attempted, warnings given, distance kept, exit offered — those are the facts that put an intervention in context, and they are the ones nobody remembers to write down because they happened before the part everybody remembers.

The officer's own welfare is on the sheet deliberately. People who have been in a physical confrontation at work are frequently sent back to post, and a record with a welfare and debrief block is a small structural prompt to do something better than that.