#5 Road Policing Flashcards
What is “Road to zero”?
Government NZ Road Safety Strategy 2020-2030
Road zero represents a commitment to
Embed road safety principles and harm reduction in transport design, regulation, planning, operation and funding
What is Road to Zero’s intermediate target?
40% reductions of deaths and serious injuries on our roads
What are “Road to Zero’s” guiding principles?
1) We promote good choices but plan for mistakes
2) We design for human vulnerability
3) We strengthen all part of the road transport system
4) We have a shared responsibility for improving road safety
5) Our actions are grounded in evidence and evaluated
6) Our road safety actions support health, wellbeing and liveable places
We make safety a critical decision making priority
What are the 5 focus areas of “Road to Zero”
1) Infrastructure improvements and speed management
2) Vehicle safety
3) Work related road safety
4) Road user choices
5) system management
How will the Road to Zero strategy measure success
1) Intervention indicators
2) Safety performance indicators
3) Outcome indicators
What is a whole of Police approach to road policing?
1) more than enforcement alone is required. Focus on prevention activities also required
2) Success relies heavily on deploying to risk and a wole of Police approach.
What is the overarching Police strategy to support Road to Zero?
Safe Roads control strategy
Focus on RIDS and other high priority areas such as CVS and HR drivers
What is General deterrence?
drivers are deterred from engaging in risky driving because they believe that Police detection and enforcement is:
- Likley
- Difficult to predict
- Difficult to avoid.
The three basic principles of general deterrence:
Dosage (intensity of enforcement)
Unpredictability (difficult to anticipate/avoid)
Network coverage (widely seen)
What is specific deterrence
Road users change behaviour because of first hand experiences with apprehensions/sanctions
What is “our safe roads operating model”?
How we enable delivery
Holistic view
What are high risk driver reports?
ID recidivist HR drivers subject to T&C process.
Updated Monthly
What is the Road Policing deployment dashboard?
Enables a more informed, evidence based and a structure approach to deployment
What is road safety Partnership?
NZP
Waka Kotahi (NZTA)
Te Manatu Waka (MOT)
Will work together
What is RP T&C?
Deployment of road policing resources .
Ensures evidence is the basis of deployments
What are our RP Tools (OnDuty)
OnDuty continues to be reviewed and streamlined.
Adding ability ti record and track supported resolutions
RP Local Stake Holder partnerships
RP managers will continue to build on existing local partnerships with support of PNHQ
What is the definition of a “pursuit”
1) Driver indicates by their actions and/or by continuing their manner of driving that they have no intention of stopping following a direction to do so.
2) Enforcement officer decides to continue to follow with a view of reporting on its progress or stopping it
Inludes:
- all speeds and terrains
- Does not include time during which officer attempts to gain attention of driver during routine stop - but does commence as it becomes clear does not intend to stop
- A reasonable amount of time is an amount of time by which a reasonable person would have been expected to stop
Police response to each fleeing driver event must be (4):
- Reasonable, proportionate, necessary
- Lawful
- Justified, considering all circumstances
- Compliant with Police instructions and policy
Each event must be reviewed for lessons learnt and appropriateness of decision making
Overall principles for fleeing driver:
- collective responsibility
- All events reports and appropriate action taken
- investigation viable alternative to pursuit
- Safety of Police, public occupants (particularly children( take priority over immediate apprehension
- Pursuit only possible if at least one of the justifications in the fleeing driver framework are met
- Actions behaviours of occupants prior to Police presence should be taken into account
- Decision not to pursue will be supported
- no unit can be directed to pursue
- Events reviewed in timely manner
- Staff criminally liable if actions contravene legislation
The Fleeing Driver Framework:
What are the two potential justifications to initiate or continue a pursuit:
1) Based on threat posed by driver/occupant as determine by officers PCA of situation and subject behaviour
2) Based on seriousness of an offence suspected of having been committed by driver/occupant - risk of ongoing offending, harm or victimisation
Pursuit possible if an officers PCA - assualtive or above - OR offence-harm risk is high
When officers TENR identifies risk to signalling driver to stop they must request support and must advise ECC:
- Reason for wanting to stop driver
- Intention to signal driver to stop
- If pursuit will be initiated if driver fails to stop
- Plan to stop fleeing driver
Drivers failing to stop includes (3):
- Unaware of signal to stop
- Unaware of required action when signalled to stop
- Deliberately failed to stop or remain
