Chapter 5: Victims, Road Policing, Control and Command Flashcards
Section 7: Treatment (Victims rights act)
- treat the victims with courtesy and compassion
and - respect the victims dignity and privacy
Section 8: Access to services (Victims rights act)
A victim or member of the victims family who has welfare, health, counselling, medical or legal needs arising from the offence should have access to services that are responsive to those needs
Section 11: Information about programmes. remedies and services (Victims rights act)
provided to the victims
Section 12: Information about proceedings (Victims rights act)
update information about the investigation and court proceedings
Section 17AA: Victim impact statement (Victims rights act)
information obtained from the victim
Section 17AB: Purpose of victim statement (Victims rights act)
- effects of the offending
- understanding of the victims views
- inform the offender of the impact of the offending
Section 17: Information to be ascertained from the victim (Victims rights act)
- any physical, emotional harm
- loss or damage to property
- other effects
- family member can be the victim if the victim is incapable
Section 18: Procedure before ascertaining information from the victim (Victims rights act)
- this is for a VIS
- Is true information
- info is recorded
Section 29: Specified offence defined (Victims rights act)
Section 29A
serious assault, sexual nature or serious injury
- Victims notification register
- commissioner of Police to determine whether an offence affecting the victim is a specified offence - delegated all police staff
Section 30: Victims views about release on bail of accused or offender (Victims rights act)
must make effort to ascertain their views and inform the court
Section 31: Police o give victims of specified offences information about right to ask for notice and appoint representative (Victims rights act)
the victim may appoint a representative
Section 40: Representative for notice (Victims rights act)
the representative has obligations to receive and pass on notifications to the victim
Section 49: Complaints (Victims rights act)
if the victim feels they have not be given their rights or have been breached they can make a complaint
Section 51: Return of property held as evidence
when possible to do so return
Road to Zero
NZ’s Road safety strategy
- 40% reduction of deaths and serious injuries
- government vision no one killed or seriously injured on our roads
-2020-2030
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Road to Zero: NZ’s Road safety strategy
Five focus areas
- Infrastructure and speed
- vehicle and safety
- work-related road safety
- road user choices
- system management
RIDS
Restrains
Impairment
Distractions
Speed
Fleeing driver Powers in respect of pursuing fleeing drivers
Section 114 LTA - constable in inform, following a vehicle
Section 9 S&S - stop with out warrant , suspect the person is unlawfully at large or committed an offence punishable by imprisonment
Section 121 S&S -
Command and Control -
- Control horizontal across agencies
- Command operates vertically within the agency
- Leadership
- Co-ordination
- Effective decision making
- Behaving lawfully
- Ethically with prevention and victim focus
Response levels
Political National Regional Local Incident Community
Appreciation
is a process for problem solving and decision making
Operation Orders
GSMEAC G - Ground S - Situation - summary and backgorund M - Mission - to safely ... repeat twice E - Execution - how A - Administration and logistics C - Command and signals
Fleeing driver
Driver who has been signalled to stop by a constable but fails to stop ans remained stopped, or a driver whi flees as a result of police presence, whether signalled to stop or not
Fleeing Driver TENR assessment
- Initial threat posed by the vehicle occupant
- Necessity to immediately apprehend the driver and or passengers
- risk of harm to any person if the driver fails to stop or remained stopped
