Chapter 5: Road Policing and Fleeing Drivers Flashcards
What is the Road Safety Strategy goal?
“Road to Zero” 40% reduction in deaths and serious injuries by 2030.
What are the guiding principles of Road to Zero strategy? (7)
- We promote good choices but plan for mistakes
- We design for human vulnerability
- Strengthen roading system
- Shared responsibility to improve road safety
- Our actions are grounded in evidence and evaluation
- Our road safety actions support health, wellbeing, and liveable places
- We make safety is a critical decision making priority
What are the five focus areas for RP?
- Infrastructure improvements and Speed Management
- Vehicle safety
- Work-related road safety
- Road User choices
- Systems management
What are RP’s Goals (3)
Safe Homes
Safe Roads
Safe Communities
The RP partnerships programme has invested 75% in what four offence types that cause most harm?
RIDS
Restraints
Impairment
Distraction
Speed
In approaching road safety from a ‘whole of Police’ approach we should recognise what? (3)
- Some road safety risks have genesis in other areas (organised crime, family violence, alcohol harm and youth)
- Road safety acheived through more than enforcement alone. Preventions activities alongside partners
- reducing trauma rlies on understanding and deploying to risk, snd s genuine whole of Police appraoch
What is a repeat registrations report
Report identifying recidivist high risk drivers subject to the tasking and co-ordination process. Updated monthly
Are staff outputs used as a performance measure
No. More longer term outcomes such as reducing road deaths is measured.
What is a fleeing driver? (2)
Driver signalled to stop
fails to stop or remain stopped
OR
Driver who flees as a result of Police presence
whether signalled to stop or not
What is the overiding principle when applying TENR?
Safety is success
The TENR risk assessment in a fleeing driver incident must balance…
- Initial Threat posed by vehicle occupants
- neccesity to immediatly apprehend driver/passengers
- risk of harm to any person if driver stops or fails to remain stopped
All fleeing driver events will be reviewed to determine whether decision was: (5)
- appropriate
- lawful
- justified, considering all circumstances
- Compliant with Police Instructions
- whether there are lessons to be learnt and applied
What are the principles of the fleeing driver policy? (10)
1: Safety of staff, vehicle occupants and public takes precendence over apprehension
2: Failing to stop is not in itself reason for pursuit.
3: Investigation is preferred to commmencment/continuation of pursuit
4: Pursuit justified only when risk posed by occupants prior to 3T and Necessity to immediately apprehend outweighs the risk of harm created by pursuit.
5: Consider impact of any response on the risk of harm particularly when CYP’s involved
6: Collective responsibilty of all staff to manage fleeing driver event safely as possible
7: Investigated and offenders held to account
8: Fleeing driver events reviewed timely to manage or escelate health and safety risks, training issues, systematic issues or lessons learnt.
9: Decision not to pursue will be supported
10: staff maybe criminally liable if manner of driving contravenes legislation
What three things must you consider prior to 3T?
- INITIAL Threat - posed by occupants
- Necessity to immediately apprehend
- Risk of harm created by pursuit.
If information available indicates driver is likely to flee what should Comms be advised (3)
- Reason for wanting to stop driver AND
- Intention to signal driver to stop AND
- whether pursuit would be initiated if driver fails to stop