General Policing Duties & Road Policing Definitions

Question 1

Alcohol

Answer 1

Spirits, wine, beer, cider or any other fermented, distilled or
spirituous liquor but does not include alcohol which is of a strength of 0.5%
or less, at the time of its sale.

Question 2

Ammunition

Answer 2

Any ammunition for any firearm and includes; grenades,

bombs and other like missiles; whether capable of use with a firearm or not.

Question 3

Controlled Container

Answer 3

A container of any description which is or was capable
of holding any liquid and is made from material which, if the container were
to be thrown or propelled at a person, could cause injury to that person.

Question 4

Domestic Abuse

Answer 4

Any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial
abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within
the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married,
cohabiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can be
committed in the home or elsewhere including online.

Question 5

Firearm

Answer 5

A lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any
shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes any ‘prohibited
weapon’, whether lethal barrelled or not, any ‘component part’ of such a lethal
or prohibited weapon or any ‘accessory’ to such weapons which are designed
or adapted to diminish the sound or flash caused by firing the weapon.

Question 6

Missing Person

Answer 6

Anyone whose whereabouts is unknown and;
circumstances are out of character or the context suggests the person may
be subject to crime or the person is at risk of harm to themselves or others

Question 7

Mobbing and Rioting

Answer 7

A mob is a group of person acting together for a
common illegal purpose to the alarm of the lieges and in breach of the peace.
It is a crime at common law to form part of a mob.

Question 8

Occupancy Rights

Answer 8

The right, if in occupation, to continue to occupy the
matrimonial home. If not in occupation, a right to enter into and occupy the
matrimonial home, and in either case the right to do so together with any
child of the family.

Question 9

Period of a Designated Sporting Event

Answer 9

A period which commences 2
hours before the start, or advertised start and is concluded one hour after
the event.

Question 10

Reckless Discharge

Answer 10

A crime at common law for any person to recklessly

discharge a firearm, whether or not actual injury is caused.

Question 11

Relevant Area (of a sports ground)

Answer 11

Any part of the ground to which spectators are granted access on payment or from which the event can be
viewed directly.

Question 12

Driving

Answer 12

A person is held to be driving when they have control of the speed
and the direction of the vehicle

Question 13

Motor Vehicle

Answer 13

Means a mechanically propelled vehicle, intended or

adapted, for use on the roads.

Question 14

Public Road (as per Vehicle Excise & Registration Act 1994)

Answer 14

A road

which a roads authority have a duty to maintain

Question 15

Road (as per RTA 1988 & 1991)

Answer 15

Any way (other than a waterway) over
which there is a public right of passage (by whatever means) and whether
subject to a toll or not and includes the road’s verges and any bridges
(whether permanent or temporary) over which, or tunnel through which, the
road passes and any reference to a road includes parts thereof.