There are many different types of force that police officers can use during a traffic stop and in the steps leading up to an arrest and within a suspect encounter. There is non- lethal force, physical force, non-physical force and deadly force. According to Henych & Thompson (2008) force is defined as “acts that threaten or inflict physical harm on suspects” (p.741). Whereas deadly force takes it several steps further as being defined as “ the application of force likely to cause great bodily injury or death” (Henych & Thompson, 2008 p.741). They further mention that less than lethal force is the use of force that is not likely to cause death or serious bodily injury such as “ touching, prodding, redirection, come-along techniques, physical
