Chapter 5 Road policing

Question 1

What is the vision of the safe journeys strategy

Answer 1

A safe road system increasingly free of deaths and serious injury

Question 2

What are the three safe system objectives for the road transport system

Answer 2

accommodating of human error

manages the forces to the level of human body can tolerate without serious injury

minimise the level of unsafe road user behaviour

Question 3

What are the four key focuses of a safe system

Answer 3

Safe roads safe speeds safe vehicles safe road use

Question 4

Who is responsible for a safe road system

Answer 4

Road safety is everyone’s responsibility

Question 5

What percentage of public interaction occurs at the roadside

Answer 5

44% of all contact with the public occurs roadside providing a huge opportunity to contribute to achieving the 90% level of public trust and confidence

Question 6

What are the four key areas of risk that wrote that police will focus their road policing attention on

Answer 6

Restraints impairment distractions speed

Question 7

What is six critical command information tools that enable deployment for road policing

Answer 7

District deployment tool

repeat registrations report

road safety partnership

tasking coordination on

duty tools

local stakeholder partnerships

Question 8

Who retains overall operational oversight and organisational risk management of a fleeing driver incident

Answer 8

Police communications retain overall operational oversight and organisational risk management even though come on May have been passed a field supervisor police communications my retake command

Question 9

What are the three key things about police conduct and managing fleeing driver incidents must balance

Answer 9

Public and police employees safety the risks involved in the public interest in apprehending those who fail to stop

Question 10

What is the police risk assessment tool in a fleeing driver

Answer 10

TENAR

Question 11

How often bus the rest be assessed in a fleeing driver pursuit

Answer 11

Assessing the risk must be a continuous process until the pursuit is resolved or abandoned by all staff involved

Question 12

Can lead vehicle driver be directed to commence or continuously driver pursuit against their own judgement

Answer 12

No drivers decision not to commence a fleeing driver pursuit or to abandon the pursuit cannot be overridden

Question 13

Under what circumstances would a secondary vehicle take over the pursuit commentary in a fleeing driver incident

Answer 13

If the lead vehicle is single crewed

Question 14

If another vehicle wishes to respond with a tactical option during a police pursuit what must they do

Answer 14

Notify the pursuit controller of location tactical option and seek permission as appropriate when safe to do so if initiating a tactical option

Question 15

If the identity of the fleeing driver becomes knowing what needs to occur

Answer 15

The pursuit controller needs to direct the abandonment of the fleeing driver pursuit

Question 16

If the lead driver in a police pursuit has a PPDP rating of silver and the passenger has a rating of gold can they report the vehicle as gold

Answer 16

Yes they can report the vehicle as gold while under supervision

Question 17

Once the direction to abandon the pursuit has been given what must all vehicles do

Answer 17

All vehicles must abandon the fleeing driver pursuit and therefore comply with the road rules use the rules

Question 18

Any police vehicles actively pursuing during the fleeing driver incident upon abandonment must immediately carry out what steps

Answer 18

Acknowledge the direction to abandon

reduce speed to increase the distance

deactivate warning devices

stop when safe

confirm the stationary state their location

undertake inquiry phase

Question 19

Who can give permission to engage a fleeing driver after abandonment

Answer 19

Permission must be sought from the pursuit controller

Question 20

Permission will be granted to re-engage a vehicle previously involved in the abandoned fling driver incident with the pursuit controller is satisfied with what

Answer 20

Any subsequent risks are mitigated or the situation has changed

Question 21

Would a subsequent engagement in a fleeing driver incident after abandonment become a new pursuit and

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

When can offices signal a driver to stop after having abandoned fleeing driver incident

Answer 22

Only once approval has been given by the pursuit controller

Question 23

Who can undertake a non-compliant vehicle stop and under what circumstances

Answer 23

A OSOSTG members trained in the tactor in response to a mobile and fleeing driver must be initiated by a OSOSTG commander

Question 24

Does abandonment of a fleeing driver pursuit by the pursuit controller apply to aircraft involved in the pursuit

Answer 24

Not unless specifically directed to do

Question 25

Section 114 of the land transport act give the powers to stop a vehicle for what purposes

Answer 25

For traffic in Forseman purposes

Question 26

Section 9 of the search and surveillance act gives police powers to stop a vehicle if they have reasonable grounds to what

Answer 26

They can stop and arrest a person if they have reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is at large has committed an offence punishable by imprisonment and believe that they are in or on the vehicle

Question 27

Section 121 of the search and surveillance act empowers police to stop and vehicle and conduct a search for what

Answer 27

Prevent crime search for evidence sees evidence

Question 28

The land transport road use a rule provides a defence to the requirement to drive within the applicable speed limit upon proof at the time the vehicle has been driven

Answer 28

Engage in urgent duty where compliance would prevent the execution of the duty or an emergency vehicle responding to an emergency with lights and sirens