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"scope_statement": "This model owns the sniper as a specialised human role involving precision shooting and observation within a documented organisational context, distinguishing the role from its holder, position, equipment and individual activities.", "in_scope": [ "Role designation and distinctions from designated marksman, observer and recreational precision shooter", "Organisation-specific qualifications, assessments and currency requirements", "Role-holder appointments, team relationships and supervisory responsibilities", "Assignment scope, applicable jurisdiction and documented authority", "Readiness restrictions, reassessment and accountability records" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Personal identity, biography and general personnel records", "Firearm, ammunition and optical equipment specifications", "Firing techniques, concealment methods and target-selection procedures", "Operational plans and individual uses of force", "Organisation-wide command structures and employment 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"why_it_matters": "Determines which role definition, qualification system and authority records apply." }, { "name": "Designation evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to role definitions, appointment records or attributed descriptions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a recognised appointment from an informal or externally applied label." }, { "name": "Role holder and appointment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person reference, position reference, appointing authority and effective interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates the human being from the role and its period of assignment." }, { "name": "Qualification standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Verified current; expired under applicable rules; suspended; not verified; not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical training records from being treated as evidence of present qualification." }, { "name": "Competence coverage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Organisation-defined 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recognition or currency.", "layers": [ { "id": "competence-standard", "name": "Competence standard", "description": "Identifies the institution's required competence areas and accepted evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "required-competence-coverage", "name": "Required competence coverage", "description": "The model records the governing standard's requirements without supplying tactical instruction or invented assessment thresholds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which competence areas does the governing standard require for sniper qualification, including observation and reporting where applicable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "required-competence-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which issuing or assessing body recognises the recorded training and assessment evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "required-competence-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualification-currency", "name": "Qualification currency", "description": "Separates completed training from currently accepted qualification.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-validity", "name": "Assessment validity", "description": "Assessment dates, validity rules and restrictions determine whether qualification evidence remains sufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was each required assessment completed, and what reassessment interval does the applicable standard specify?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assessment-validity-q01" }, { "text": "What documented process applies when sniper qualification evidence expires, is suspended or cannot be verified?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-validity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sniper-appointment-and-team", "name": "Sniper appointment and team", "description": "Connects the abstract role to a holder, position and documented working relationships.", "rationale": "Holding a qualification does not establish an active appointment, and team responsibilities cannot be inferred from the sniper label.", "layers": [ { "id": "holder-and-position", "name": "Holder and position", "description": "Records who holds the appointment and when it applies.", "findings": [ { "id": "appointment-record", "name": "Appointment record", "description": "A sniper appointment links a person to a defined position or duty for an evidenced interval.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which appointment record links the person to sniper duties, and who issued it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appointment-record-q01" }, { "text": "What are the appointment's effective dates, and is sniper duty primary, additional or temporary?", "kind": "definition", "id": "appointment-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "team-responsibilities", "name": "Team responsibilities", "description": "Captures locally defined relationships with observers, spotters and supervisors.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility-allocation", "name": "Responsibility allocation", "description": "Team membership and role interchange require explicit evidence rather than a presumed universal team structure.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are sniper, observation and reporting responsibilities allocated in this appointment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "responsibility-allocation-q01" }, { "text": "Who may approve a change between sniper and observer or spotter duties, and what qualification evidence is required?", "kind": "action", "id": "responsibility-allocation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sniper-authority-and-limits", "name": "Sniper authority and limits", "description": "Records the institutional and jurisdictional basis of the role and its assignment boundaries.", "rationale": "The role title must not be interpreted as a universal licence or as authorisation for a particular use of force.", "layers": [ { "id": "governing-authority", "name": "Governing authority", "description": "Identifies which authority and rules govern the appointment.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-evidence", "name": "Authority evidence", "description": "The record distinguishes occupational recognition, weapons permissions and appointment authority where the governing system treats them separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which jurisdiction and institutional instruments govern this sniper appointment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does this context require a distinct licence, an internal qualification, an appointment authorisation or some documented combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "authority-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-boundaries", "name": "Assignment boundaries", "description": "Separates administrative role eligibility from permissions attached to specific activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-separation", "name": "Permission separation", "description": "Assignment scope and restrictions are recorded explicitly; particular operational decisions remain with the relevant activity and authority records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sniper duties are covered by this appointment, and which require additional 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incomplete.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current records establish whether the holder is eligible, restricted or suspended from sniper duties?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "eligibility-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What review is required before the holder resumes sniper duties after a qualification lapse or appointment restriction?", "kind": "action", "id": "eligibility-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability-and-reassessment", "name": "Accountability and reassessment", "description": "Links changes in role standing to responsible reviewers and supporting records.", "findings": [ { "id": "standing-change-review", "name": "Standing change review", "description": "Changes to sniper-role standing retain their decision basis while detailed incident records remain in neighbouring models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is responsible for reviewing sniper qualification and appointment standing after a relevant referral?", "kind": "action", "id": "standing-change-review-q01" }, { "text": "Which decision record explains a restriction, reinstatement or reassessment requirement, and when does it take effect?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "standing-change-review-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This entry describes the specialist role, not a particular individual, weapon or job 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a sniper sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a sniper from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a sniper is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a sniper is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a sniper moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a sniper passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a sniper between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a sniper, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sniper is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a sniper.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a sniper and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a sniper, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a sniper and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a sniper sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as sniper.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does sniper require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses sniper, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What sniper actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define sniper, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as sniper, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a sniper came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a sniper and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a sniper is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sniper, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a sniper, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a sniper is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }