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SITUATION:

A platoon is conducting fixed site security at _____. A crowd starts to form around 1000 and grows in size until several hundred people are present.

EVENT(S):

1. A priest comes to the gate and asks for help. He states that a woman is being raped just down the street (150 meters away).

2. Shots are fired within the crowd; no casualties observed. Crowd moves away from where the shots were fired, but does not dissipate.

3. A scuffle breaks out among a number of young kids in front of the compound. During the fight, three teenagers enter the compound by climbing over the back gate. They grab a ruck sack which contains a radio and a PVS-7 and throw it back over the wall.

4. A hand grenade detonates in the crowd and 20 Haitians and one American are wounded; one Haitian is dead. Two men are observed running away from the site.

5. A bomb is detected on a vehicle near the site.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

EVENT(S):

1. Report to higher HQ; do not leave your post. The commander has the option to alert the QRF or to call for MP support. The commander will take action. The site NCOIC or Officer must explain the situation to the priest and attempt to keep the crowd calm. If your force is ordered to investigate the alleged rape remember, persons observed committing serious criminal acts will be detained using minimal force necessary up to and including deadly force. Serious criminal acts include rape.

2. Seek cover, observe and report. Do not leave your post or enter the crowd. Bring the linguist forward, and request that the crowd dissipate.

3. The fight in the front of the gate was a diversion. The young kids out front are still a threat. Pursue the teenagers with the rucksack with the minimum force possible (no less than four) and report. Deadly force is not authorized against the thieves. The commander should employ the QRF and request MP assistance.

4. Maintain security of the fixed site, report to higher HQ, perform first aid and attempt to secure casualties. The commander should employ QRF, request additional medical support from battalion and battalion should request Haitian medical services.

5. Report to higher HQ, and ask the informant stay at your position (secure and observe the individual). The commander has a number of options, request and employ EOD, MP or QRF. At a minimum, a linguist and CI team should interrogate the individual making the claim.

ROE Limitations and Restrictions:

The medical ROE allows American soldiers to perform first aid for any individual (to prevent loss of life). However, civilian medical services must perform routine medical services for local nationals. Make the casualties comfortable, and extract or evacuate the American casualties ASAP. If you have exhausted all reasonable graduated response techniques and, in your opinion, it appears there will be loss of human life, the use of deadly force may be used (as a last resort). Loss of life includes civilian on civilian violence. Burglary and larceny are defined as looting, breaking and entering or stealing. These situations only warrant the use of nonlethal force "unless" the perpetrator is armed and displaying a hostile intent. In any situation, the existence of a perpetrator with a weapon displaying hostile intent is grounds for considering deadly force. Hostile intent is defined as pointing a weapon at an individual(s); holding hostages; discharging a weapon; striking an individual(s) with a weapon and threatening to use the weapon or evidence of recent use of a weapon.

ROE 7: Persons observed committing serious criminal acts will be detained using minimal force necessary up to and including deadly force. Serious criminal acts include homicide, aggravated assault, rape, arson and robbery.