• Presentation to a court in trial

• preventive/security reasons for follow-up operations

• matching witness/perpetrator statements against evidence/traces on scene

A soak time is a waiting time for an IEED Operator before approaching an explosive device/suspicious object

Primary Soak Time —> Waiting time before initial action. Normally one hour, counted after the place where the suspicious object is, was locked down. The purpose is to avoid an approach at likely times of explosion.

Secondary Soak Time —> Waiting time after every IEDD action on the suspicious object by the IEDD operator. This time varies and depends on the situation. It is taken because the action might have set something off inside the IED. The purpose is to avoid being close to an explosion caused by an IEDD action.

• Inspection (optical/x-ray)

• Fixing (tape)

• entering/cutting/opening the container of the IED with the right tools

• Seperation (detonation circuit from explosive, and explosive from container)

The Röntgenverordnung doesn’t have an exception for law enforcement.

It states that x-ray is only allowed:

• for medical purposes

• for especially licensed medical personnel

• only with equipment that has been tested and approved for the use on humans

• water disruptor

• mineral water bottle disruptor

• fluid breaker

• linear focused charge

• salt charges

• Water is not compressible, therefore it is an ideal medium to transfer energy

• Water distributes after a short way, disrupting the inner components of a suspicious object

• Water reduces the danger of a high order detonation by pre-wetting the explosive material, therefore lowering its sensitivity

• Water is a light medium —> reduces the energy delivered to the explosive

• The destruction of the ignition system is slower than the reaction time of the ignition circuit

• the energy delivered to the explosive material by the disruptive tool, is enough the ignite it (explosive itself is too sensitive)