4.116 Driving Vehicle Procedures

Question 1

It is the policy of this department to ensure members are held accountable while operating a vehicle. Department members will operate vehicles in a safe manner while ______ ______when possible and with _______ _________as a top concern.

Answer 1

Mitigating risk

Public safety

Question 2

Department members will operate police vehicles _______and with regard for the ____ ___ _______ __ _____regardless of circumstances.

Answer 2

Reasonably

Rights and safety of others

Question 3

Department members, citizens, and arrestees occupy department vehicles will wear seatbelts while the vehicle is in motion. The only exemption to this is when the vehicle is traveling less than ___________and the driver or passenger is expecting to exit the vehicle to take immediate police action once the vehicle has stopped.

Answer 3

15 mph

Question 4

Texting, emailing, or using a cell phone while driving without a _____ _____ ______is prohibited while a vehicle is in motion.

Answer 4

Hands-free mechanism

Question 5

While engaged in a priority response or vehicle pursuit, department employees are prohibited from using cell phones in ______ _______.

Answer 5

Any capacity

Question 6

During both code 2 and code 3 operations, officers will ____ __ _ _____before entering an intersection against the traffic control device, and before entering a blind intersection, or any intersection where hazards are present and other drivers cannot see oncoming lanes of traffic.

Answer 6

Come to a stop

Question 7

(During code 2 and 3 driving)

The officer may cross the intersection in ______, treating each lane as a separate intersection.

Answer 7

Stages

Question 8

If an emergency vehicle becomes, stopped by traffic, the officer may _____ ___ ________ ___ ______until traffic conditions allow for safe movement of the vehicle.

Answer 8

Deactivate the emergency lights and siren

Question 9

During code 3 operations, officers driving into opposing Traffic may do so at____ _____, ensuring there is no oncoming traffic in their lane before proceeding. Extreme caution must be exercised.

Answer 9

Slow speeds

Question 10

Police officers with more than four years of service and assigned to an area command, uniformed, or non-uniformed officers, patrol detectives have EVOC training every:

Answer 10

Three years

Question 11

Sgt and Lt‘s assigned to an air command, Uniform or non-Uniform have EVOC re-cert every:

Answer 11

Five years

Question 12

Each ________will conduct an initial check ride and document the outcome in UMLV for newly assigned officers who will be operating department vehicles.

Answer 12

Sergeant

Question 13

An occurrence in which a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, bicycle, road debris, or stationary object, such as a tree, pole, or building, resulting in bodily injury, a complaint of bodily injury, death of a person, or results in the total damage to any vehicle or item of property to an apparent extent of $750 or more.

Answer 13

Collision

Question 14

A finding that a collision a department member was involved in may have been preventable, but that the collision was unavoidable or excusable, considering all circumstances.

Answer 14

Excusable

Question 15

A separate category from a collision, is an occurrence in which a vehicle collide with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, bicycle, road debris, or stationary object, such as a tree, pole, or building not resulting in bodily injury, a complaint of bodily injury, death of a person, or result in total damage to any vehicle or item of property to an apparent extent of less than $750.

Answer 15

Incident

Question 16

A finding that a collision a department member was involved in violated department, policies, procedures, training, standards, or traffic laws.

Answer 16

Preventable

Question 17

All traffic collisions, training, collisions, and incidents involving department vehicles will be thoroughly investigated by the_______ ______ or a ________ ________and administratively reviewed by the _______.

Answer 17

Traffic bureau

Commissioned patrol supervisor

VCB

Question 18

All department members involved in a vehicle collision who are equipped with a body worn camera will, unless incapacitated, immediately activate the BWC. All commission members responding to investigate a vehicle collision involving another member will also activate the BWC until completion of the investigation. Once the investigation is complete, all members with BWC video will manually label and categorize the video as”_____ _______”. This category designation will retain the video footage for five years.

Answer 18

Pending review

Question 19

(Traffic collision)

Department member will

Prior to the end of shift, report the details of the collision via______ _____ the in blue team.

Answer 19

Collision report

Question 20

(Traffic collision)

Responding Supervisor responsibilities:

If the collision involves any other citizen vehicle, non-motorist, Significant property damage, PIT, blocking, VCT, or ramming, request a______ ______ ____ to respond.

Answer 20

Traffic bureau unit

Question 21

Collisions will be completed on a______ __ ______ ____ _____ _______.

Answer 21

State of Nevada traffic collision report (NHP5)

Question 22

Incidents will be documented on a_______ _____ _____ _______.

Answer 22

Department vehicle incident (LVMPD 42)