***NDM***

Question 1

What are some factors that affect decision making?

Answer 1

Past experiences
Cognitive Biases
Age and individual difference
Belief in personal relevance
Personal commitment

Question 2

What are the 6 obstacles to decision making?

Answer 2

Acting on impulse
Risk avoidance
Being a decision-making loner
Ignorance
“One solution” decision maker
Halo effect

Question 3

10 APP risk principles

Answer 3

1) Willingness to make decisions under uncertainty
2) Maintaining or achieving the safety, security and
wellbeing of individuals and communities
3) Risk taking involves judgement and balance
4) Harm can never be totally prevented
5) Making risk decisions, and reviewing others’ risk decision
making, is difficult
6) Standard of the decision should be consistent with what
other people of similar ranks would have made
7) Whether to record a decision is a risk decision in itself
which should be left to professional judgement
8) To reduce risk aversion and improve decision making,
policing needs a culture that learns from successes as
well as failures
9) Information should be shared to partner agencies for
people at risk as good information informs good
decisions
10) Members of the police service who make decisions
consistent with these principles should receive the
encouragement, approval and support of their
organisation

REMEMBER: LJ-CRUSHERS

Question 4

What does JESIP stand for?

Answer 4

Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Procedures

Question 5

What is the mnemonic for the NDM?

Answer 5

C = Code of Ethics
I = Gather information and intelligence
A = Assess threat + risk and develop a working strategy
P = Consider powers and policy
O = Identify options and contingencies
A = Take action
R = Review what happened

Question 6

What are the 9 policing principles?

Answer 6

Fairness
Openness
Objectiveness
Leadership
Selflessness
Accountability
Respect
Honesty
Integrity

Question 7

What are the standards of professional behaviour?

Answer 7

Honesty and Integrity
Equality and Diversity
Authority, respect and courtesy
Duties and Responsibilities

Orders and Instructions
Fitness for Work

Use of Force

Confidentiality
Conduct
Challenging and reporting inappropriate behaviour

Question 8

What is a threat assessment?

Answer 8

A threat assessment is the analysis of potential or actual harm to people or property, the probability of it occurring &
the consequences or impact should it occur

Note:
POTENTIAL OR ACTUAL HARM – PROBABLITY OF IT
HAPPENING – CONSEQUENCES/IMPACT IF IT DOES HAPPEN

Question 9

What is a risk?

Answer 9

A risk is the likelihood or chance of injury or harm happening

Question 10

What does VIAPO stand for in the ‘Review’ stage of the NDM?

Answer 10

Values
Information
Assessment
Powers + Policy
Options