Capter 5 - Road Policing Flashcards

1
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Road Policing:Nz Road Safety strategy:2010-2020
Safer journeys is a strategy guide over the period of 2010-20
What is the long term vision ?

A

To have a safe road free of death and serious injury

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Police is taking a a safe system approach to road safety which has objectives to ?(3)

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  1. Make the road system more accomodating to human error.
  2. Manage forces in a crash that a human body can tolerate
  3. minimise the level of unsafe road user behaviour.
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With our safe system focus our goal would ultimately achieve what? (4)

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  1. Safer roads
  2. Safer speed
  3. Safer vehicles

Safer road use

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Who is responsible for the Safe System?

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Road safety is everyone’s responsibility.

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Road policing action plan 18-21:

If adherence to the action plan is followed will enable Police to achieve what?

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5% reduction in road death every year.

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What % of all contact with the public is at the roadside?

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44%

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Police have a strong evidence basis to determine what works including the integrated intervention logic model (IILM ) This assists in identifying the top risk factors what are they (RIDS)

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R-estraints
I-mparment
D-istraction
S-peed

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8
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What was the 2017 road death numbers which is being used as the base line for the 5% reduction?

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378

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Fleeing driver policy:

What is the over arching principle in relation to the immediate apprehension of a fleeing Driver?

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The safety of the public and employees.

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10
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What constitutes a fleeing driver?

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A driver who has been indicated to stop by and officer but fails to do so.

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Once a pursuit has been perminently abandoned no further attempt to signal the vehicle to stop will be be made unless approval is given by whom?

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Pursuit controller

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Who is the pursuit controller?

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The shift commander at Police Communications — who can hand over to the field supervisor

If SC supervisors unavailable a constabulary team leader can take control

In extreme circumstances this maybe a police employee without constabulary powers.

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What must happen if in cases where the pursuit controller is not is not a police comms constabulary member or command is passed to a field supervisor?

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It must be identified in weekly comms report and assessed to identify wether any operational risks and issues require further action.

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Who retains overall control even if command has been passed to the field supervisor and can take back control at any time?

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Police Comms

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Given how quickly a fleeing driver incident can develop and circumstances change what must staff do until the pursuit is resolved or abandoned ?

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Assess and reassess the risks

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16
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Describe TENR

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Threat
Exposure
Necessity
Response

17
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What is the preferred approach if the offender is known and not a imminent risk to anybody?

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Determined by tenr —subsequent lines of enquiry.

18
Q

Can a drivers decision to not to commence or abandon a pursuit be overridden .

A

No

19
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If the secondary vehicle calls of the pursuit what must they do?

A

Advise the pursuit controller and give reason why

20
Q

The comms incident controller should have regular sitreps to assist managing the incident ,how often should there be transmitting?

A

Commentary should be maintained with 5 second

intervals or when it is safe to do

21
Q

Comms may request the PPDP classification silver or gold can, a silver driver pursue with a gold passenger in the vehicle?

A

Yes

22
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When lead or secondary driver, field supervisor, pursuit controller call for the pursuit to be abandoned what must the pursuit controller do?

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Must advise all vehicles involved, the pursuit is abandoned.

23
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If the pursuit is abandoned does this apply to aircraft?

A

No unless directly advised by PC