4.116 Driving/Vehicle Procedures Flashcards
Emergency vehicles DO NOT have the absolute right of way and department members will always operate police vehicles reasonably and always with due regard for the rights and safety of others and regardless of circumstances: true or false ?
True
Department members, citizens, and arrestees occupying department vehicles will wear seat belts while the vehicle is in motion. The only exemption to this rule is when the vehicle is traveling ________ and the driver or passenger(s) is expecting to exit the vehicle and take immediate police action once the vehicle has stopped:
15 mph
The following pertain to using a cellphone while driving a department vehicle:
a. Cellphone use will be limited to hand-free usage
b. The use of a cellphone earpiece should never interfere with effectively monitoring the radio or attending to the sounds of traffic or citizens
c. While engaged in a priority response or vehicle pursuit, department employees are prohibited from using cell phones in any capacity
d. Text messaging or emailing while driving is prohibited, to include reading messages at stop signals
e. Personal communication on cellphones while engaged in enforcement activity should be conducted out of view of the public when feasible, unless exigent circumstance exist
f. On-duty personnel will not wear a cellphone earpiece at any time if a radio earpiece is worn
As it pertains to a department vehicle, department members will not allow unauthorized persons to:
a. Possess a key
b. Operate
c. Occupy
Each sergeant will conduct an initial check ride and document the outcome of the check ride on all _______assigned officers who will be operating department vehicles, within the ______ week of assignment:
a. Newly, First
Police officers with more than four years of service and assigned to an area command will recertify with EVOC:
Every three (3) years
Police officers in the first three years of service will recertify with EVOC:
Annually
Sergeants assigned to an area command, uniformed or non-uniformed will recertify with EVOC:
Every five (5) years
Lieutenants assigned to an area command or assigned as watch commander uniformed will recertify with EVOC:
Every five (5) years
Officers assigned to the Gang Section or K9 Section will recertify with EVOC:
Every three (3) years
Commissioned employees who fail to participate or certify in mandatory EVOC will be assigned duties that DO NOT require the operation of an agency vehicle until they are properly certified: true or false ?
True
***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.
Collision
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 the circumstances.
Excusable
**A separate category from a collision, is 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 not 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 less than $750.
Incident
A finding that a collision a department member was involved in was performed in accordance with department policies, procedures, training standards, and traffic laws.
Non-preventable
A finding that a collision a department member was involved in violated department policies, procedures, training standards, or traffic laws.
Preventable
**All department members involved in a collision while in actual physical control of and/or assigned to any vehicle will, prior to the end of shift, report the details of the collision via the Collision Report in Blue Team. True or False
True
Minor training incidents on a closed course are exempt from completing a Collision Report in Blue Team. True or False ?
True
All department members involved in a vehicle collision who have a Body Worn Camera will, unless incapacitated, immediately activate the BWC: true or false ?
True
If involved in a vehicle collision, the employee will notify their immediate supervisor or on-duty supervisor, as soon as _______, unless physically unable.
Practical
If the collision only rises to the level of an incident and no other citizen vehicle or non-motorist was involved, the commissioned supervisor will:
Complete and submit a Supervisor’s Report of Department Vehicle Incident (LVMPD 393)
Department members involved in an incident, not collision, do not have to report the details via Collision Report in Blue Team true or false ?
False
Commissioned supervisor will respond to all incidents and collisions involving department members. True or false ?
True
Patrol supervisors will conduct periodic spot inspections of vehicles assigned to their personnel:
Monthly
