Recruit officers in the Academy are told that if they are in a situation in which persons are being held hostage or barricaded persons will not voluntarily surrender, they should do the following in the order given:1. Notify the Communications Division of the situation, so they can notify the patrol supervisor, Emergency Service Unit, and Operations Unit.2. Verify that the patrol supervisor and Emergency Service Unit are responding.3. Attempt to confine and isolate the subjects involved pendin arrivalf th patro. supervisor and Emergency Service Unit.4. Maintain firearms control and establish police lines.5. Maintain continuous surveillance of the location, if possible. Detain witnesses for later debriefing.In a role-play exercise in class, the recruit officers are given a situation in which officers respond to a barricaded person situation. They have notified the Communications Division, and have verified that the patrol supervisor and the Emergency Service Unit are responding. The next step they should take is to:

Information Ordering: This ability involves following correctly a rule or set of rules or actions in a certain order. The rule or set of rules used must be given. The things or actions to be put in order can include numbers, letters, words, pictures, procedures, sentences, and mathematical or logical operations.