Chapter 5: Victims, Road Policing, Control and Command

Question 1

Section 7: Treatment (Victims rights act)

Answer 1

• treat the victims with courtesy and compassion
  and
• respect the victims dignity and privacy

Question 2

Section 8: Access to services (Victims rights act)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Section 11: Information about programmes. remedies and services (Victims rights act)

Answer 3

provided to the victims

Question 4

Section 12: Information about proceedings (Victims rights act)

Answer 4

update information about the investigation and court proceedings

Question 5

Section 17AA: Victim impact statement (Victims rights act)

Answer 5

information obtained from the victim

Question 6

Section 17AB: Purpose of victim statement (Victims rights act)

Answer 6

• effects of the offending
• understanding of the victims views
• inform the offender of the impact of the offending

Question 7

Section 17: Information to be ascertained from the victim (Victims rights act)

Answer 7

• any physical, emotional harm
• loss or damage to property
• other effects
• • family member can be the victim if the victim is incapable

Question 8

Section 18: Procedure before ascertaining information from the victim (Victims rights act)

Answer 8

• this is for a VIS
• Is true information
• info is recorded

Question 9

Section 29: Specified offence defined (Victims rights act)

Section 29A

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Section 30: Victims views about release on bail of accused or offender (Victims rights act)

Answer 10

must make effort to ascertain their views and inform the court

Question 11

Section 31: Police o give victims of specified offences information about right to ask for notice and appoint representative (Victims rights act)

Answer 11

the victim may appoint a representative

Question 12

Section 40: Representative for notice (Victims rights act)

Answer 12

the representative has obligations to receive and pass on notifications to the victim

Question 13

Section 49: Complaints (Victims rights act)

Answer 13

if the victim feels they have not be given their rights or have been breached they can make a complaint

Question 14

Section 51: Return of property held as evidence

Answer 14

when possible to do so return

Question 15

Road to Zero

Answer 15

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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Question 16

Road to Zero: NZ’s Road safety strategy

Five focus areas

Answer 16

• Infrastructure and speed
• vehicle and safety
• work-related road safety
• road user choices
• system management

Question 17

RIDS

Answer 17

Restrains
Impairment
Distractions
Speed

Question 18

Fleeing driver Powers in respect of pursuing fleeing drivers

Answer 18

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 -

Question 19

Command and Control -

• Control horizontal across agencies
• Command operates vertically within the agency

Answer 19

• Leadership
• Co-ordination
• Effective decision making
• Behaving lawfully
• Ethically with prevention and victim focus

Question 20

Response levels

Answer 20

Political 
National
Regional
Local
Incident
Community

Question 21

Appreciation

Answer 21

is a process for problem solving and decision making

Question 22

Operation Orders

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Fleeing driver

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Fleeing Driver TENR assessment

Answer 24

• 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

Question 25

Fleeing Driver overall principles

Answer 25

Safety of the public, vehicle occupants and Police staff takes precedence over the immediate apprehension of a fleeing driver

The threat posed by the vehicle occupants prior to signaling the driver to stop, and the necessity to immediately apprehend the driver/ passenger outweighs the risk of harm created by the pursuit

Question 26

Info available indicates a driver is likely to flee

Answer 26

Advise communication centre

• reason for wanting to stop
• intention to signal the driver to stop
• whether a pursuit is going to be initiated if the driver fails to stop

Question 27

Driver fails to stop after signaling

Answer 27

That a driver fails to stop or remain stopped for police is not in itself sufficient reason to commence a pursuit

Question 28

Responsibility after a fleeing driver event

Answer 28

K6 or k9
Fleeing driver notification before the end of shift
Create and update NIA investigate file by the end of shift

Supervisor - hot debrief, ensure NIA/notification done, reviews fleeing driver notification, ensure health and safety, ensure investigation has been commenced ( may with approval 5 days)

Question 29

Fleeing driver tactical options

Answer 29

Abandoned 
Air support 
AOS and STG 
Dog
Investigation
Temporary road closures 
Tyre deflation device