HCSO Corporal Spring Practice Exam

The Early Warning System is based on monitoring a six-month window for patterns of force. If an officer has three uses of force within any six-month period, that triggers the EWS. The reason this is the best answer is that the policy specifically defines a six-month window as the trigger period, designed for timely detection of recurring behavior. The other options don’t fit because they don’t match the six-month window the system uses, which would either be too short to accumulate three incidents or too long to prompt prompt intervention.