Capter 5 - Road Policing

Question 1

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 ?

Answer 1

To have a safe road system,free of death and serious injury

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

With our safe system focus our goal would ultimately achieve what? (4)

Answer 3

1. Safer roads
2. Safer speed
3. Safer vehicles
4. Safer road use

Question 4

Who is responsible for the Safe System?

Answer 4

Road safety is everyone’s responsibility.

Question 5

Road policing action plan 18-21:

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

Answer 5

5% reduction in road death every year.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

44%

Question 7

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)

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Fleeing driver policy:

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

Answer 8

The safety of the public and employees.

Question 9

What constitutes a fleeing driver?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Pursuit controller

Question 11

Who is the pursuit controller?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

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?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Police Comms

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Assess and reassess the risks

Question 15

Describe TENR

Answer 15

Threat
Exposure
Necessity
Response

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Determined by tenr —conduct subsequent lines of enquiry: enquiry phase

Question 17

Can a drivers decision NOT to commence or abandon a pursuit be overridden?

Answer 17

No

Question 18

If the secondary vehicle initiates a pursuit what must they do?

Answer 18

Advise the pursuit controller and give reason why

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Commentary should be maintained with 5 second

intervals or when it is safe to do

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Must advise all vehicles involved, the pursuit is abandoned.

Question 22

If the pursuit is abandoned does this apply to aircraft?

Answer 22

No unless directly advised by PC