What is physical control?

• A. Achieving compliance or custody through empathy or leverage-enhanced techniques.
• B. Achieving compliance through verbal commands only.
• C. Achieving compliance or custody through pain compliance, takedowns, restraints devices, and leverage-enhanced techniques.
• D. Waiting for compliance without applying force.

Answer: (C)

Physical control means gaining and maintaining custody of a person through physical means or devices when nonforce approaches aren’t enough to keep everyone safe. It covers methods that physically compel movement, hold, restrain, or manage a person using leverage or equipment. The best choice lists examples—pain compliance, takedowns, restraints devices, and leverage-based techniques—because each involves applying physical force or tools to achieve control. The other options rely on empathy, verbal commands, or waiting for compliance without applying any physical method, so they don’t meet the idea of physically controlling a person.