Ch 6: Firearms Flashcards
Police are responsible for ensuring compliance with the AA 83. To achieve this Police focus and tailor intervention in line with what?
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- The level of risk
- The actual or potential consequences.
- The behaviour, attitude and capability of firearms licence holder.
What are the two aspects of risk Police focus on?
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- Magnitude of the consequences that may eventuate should an event occur.
- Likelihood of that event occuring.
What do Police expect firearm licences holders to operate how?
Safely, securely and responsibly
Police compliance activities aim at having the maximum impact on?
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Personal & Public safety
Security
Responsible use of firearms.
Principles: Compliance interventions decision making Police take into account the attitude towards compliance by:
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- Logical, timely and considered.
- Evidence based.
- made without fer, favour, bias, prejudiced or improper motives.
- robust and well documented to withstand judicial review.
- Proportionate to the risk posed by non-compliance behaviour.
- Consistent with law, the public interest and police policies and values.
Principles: Compliance interventions range of intervention available enables Police to:
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- Provide info & educational material to firearms licence applicants.
- Issue warning letters.
- Issues improvement notice if licence holder is failing, has failed or likely to fail to comply with a provision of the AA 83.
- prescribe conditions on a dealers or firearms licence.
- Issues notice of temp suspension or notice of consideration of revocation of licence.
- Revoke a firearms or dealer’s licence.
What do police determine the appropriate intervention based on?
Risk, attitude, behaviour and capability.
The four factors Police use for consideration for licence compliance`
- Extent of harm or risk or risk of hard.
- Conduct/behaviour
- Public Interest.
- Attitude to compliance.
Disqualification AA 83 Sec 22H. A person is disqualified from holding a firearms licence if they have within how many years been convicted or release from custody for offences committed against this act, serious violent offences, drug offences and DVA 95 or FVC 18?
10 years
If a firearms holder has had their licence disqualified can they apply for a review or appeal the DC disqualification?
No
Trespass Act 80 - A person who commits an offences against this act at the time was carrying or had with them a weapon may be disqualified b y the courts for holding a firearms licence for how long?
Not exceeding 2 years from the date of conviction.
Police Safety Orders - When is a person’s firearms licence suspended while a PSO has been issued.
When the PSO is in force.
Licence and any firearms or weapons must be surrender immediately.
Protections Orders - A firearms licence is deemed to be revoked when a final protection order is in force. Who can issue the respondent a written notice of revocation and ensure holder’s firearms licence and any firearms in their possession or control are surrendered?
Inspector and above.
Fit and Proper person to possess firearms or airguns.
What were the two previous statutory guidance on what it meant to be fit and proper to possess a firearm or airgun?
- Protection Order was in force or grounds for a PO to be made against a person.
- Applicant needed to pass the required tests, and still does.
What is the two purpose of the Firearms Act.
(Clues: To promote? and To impose?)
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- To promote safe possession and use of firearms and other weapons.
- To impose controls on the possession and use of firearms and other weapons.