Do all these and more in under the time limit of 18 minutes.
On Thursday, Sergeant Irwan Kurniawan, 33, a member of the elite Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response (Spear) Force, did it in just over 10 minutes.
For that, he won the Specialist challenge, a competition that was part of the second Asian Prisons Lockdown Challenge (APLC). Sergeant Yeo Bo Li, also a Spear member was first runner up.
The five-day event, which officially ended on Friday, saw nine teams from five countries battle it out in a series of prison-related challenges at the Spear Base in Changi Prison.
The Specialist was the most demanding of the four events - only 24 individuals were chosen to take part and only 13 managed to complete the course within 18 minutes.
Even Sgt Irwan nearly gave up.
"I felt like dying, especially during the last part. My legs were so heavy, I could barely lift them.
"I was only one flight of stairs away from finishing, but I was so tired I wanted to give up right there," he said.
But for the sake of his teammates, he told himself to push on.
"I was telling my legs not to give up, that there was only one more floor to go and I had to scrape through. I didn't want to embarrass my unit," he said.
He had hoped only to finish the challenge and was surprised when he learnt that he had actually won.
"It was so unexpected, but I'm very happy. I'm very grateful to the audience who cheered for me; they drove me on," he said.
The biennial challenge, which was started in 2010, is organised by the Singapore Prison Service and involves the prison services of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The other teams included those from the Brunei Darussalam Prison Department, Hong Kong Correctional Services, Macao Prisons and the Tasmania Prison Service.
Modelled after the Mock Prison Riot held in the US, the challenge aims to bring together prison services from across the Asia-Pacific for some "healthy competition."
Before the event began, Sgt Irwan said: "Different teams have different strengths that I can learn from. The Tasmanians, for example, impressed me with their teamwork and unique tactics."
Three of the challenges were team events: The Marksman tested the shooting capabilities of the teams, Dormitory Shakedown required teams to quell a simulated riot and Low Light Rescue challenged participants to search for casualties in a near-zero visibility environment.
The chief officer of Macao Prisons, Mr Gary Wong, 41, said he learnt a lot and will use some ideas when he returns home.
He said: "We will hold an internal competition in Macau after this to test what we've learned."
For the overall result, defending champion Singapore had to settle with second spot. The Hong Kong team was first.
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