Risk Management Flashcards
Office of risk management report to captain and is compromised of:
- Lieutenant
- Analysis unit
- Claims support unit
Upon notification, Risk Management Administrator SHALL:
- respond to all threshold incidents
- Utilize CHP 271-Critical incident potential civil liability
- make notification through appropriate Assistant commish to ORM/OLA w/initial briefing item
Post incident, RMA SHALL:
- ensure initiation/completion/timely submission of CHP 268-Risk management potential civil litigation report
- CHP 268 SHALL be completed/forwarded to ORM within 7 calendar days
Threshold incidents are:
Incidents which have a high probability of resulting in Dept/CA as defendant in civil lawsuit
The 4 examples of a threshold incident are:
1) Any incident in which member of Dept is seriously injured or killed during performance of duties
2) Any incident involving dept personnel which results in serious injury, hospitalization, or death to member of the public
3) Member of dept intentionally or by accident discharges firearm at a person, whether on or off duty, and whether or not individual is struck
4) Any sensitive or complex internal investigation when liability appears to be that of Dept
Threshold incidents require immediate notification to ____ via ENTAC
Office of Risk Management
What is a Nonthreshold Potential Civil Liability Incident:
Incident not rising to level of a threshold incident, but which is deemed to potentially cause liability exposure for dept
Examples of Nonthreshold potential civil liability incidents are any incident involving:
- PV crash which results in “other visible” and/or “complaint of pain” injury to party/parties, other than member of dept
- use of force by member of dept which results in an other visible and/or COP injury to suspect/bystander
- an other visible and/or COP injury from use of handcuffs (indentation and/or redness do not require CHP 268)
- high risk or felony stop procedures are used and suspect(s) is/are later found to be innocent party
- civilian slips or falls in front lobby of Area Office and sustains injury
- innocent party’s vehicle runs over a spike strip
- there is damage caused by push bumper removal of a vehicle or equipment from roadway
Nonthreshold PCL incidents require appropriate preliminary or completed CHP 268 transmitted to ORM within ___calendar days and ENTAC notification ___ required
7 and NOT
Dept web-based Blue team/IAPro has been replaced by CHP ___
268
Report as soon as practical after an incident, a supervisor w/direct knowledge of incident SHALL complete chronological summary of incident and submit report through proper channels to ___
Office of Risk Management
In event more than 1 dept employee is directly involved in an incident which would give rise to civil liability, only ___ report SHALL be completed
1
Preservation for Threshold incidents SHALL be retained on a ___ year litigation hold
10
Nonthreshold PCL incidents SHALL be retained on a ___ year litigation hold
5
Pending incidents SHALL be preserved upon completion and retained for:
10 year litigation hold for threshold and 5 year litigation hold for Nonthreshold
Preservation of evidence involving criminal prosecution and results in incarceration, associated documents/materials SHALL be retained and held for:
threshold/Nonthreshold time periods or length of incarceration, whichever is longer
Areas SHALL determine if any civil litigation is pending prior to releasing/destroying preserved materials/documents. Approval SHALL be obtained from __, __, and ____ prior to destruction
Office of risk management, Office of legal affairs, and case management
Copies of CHP 268 SHALL ___ be included in complaint investigation report
Not
CHP ___, Risk management use of force report is intended for statistical gathering purposes in order to conduct trend analysis as well as to comply w/state and federal reporting requirements
275
use of force incidents w/o injury SHALL be documented on CHP ___
275
All UOF incidents which result in injury SHALL be documented on CHP ____ and accompanied CHP ____
275 and 268
Must report use of force incident when involves ___ on officers and all _____ incidents
Attacks and use of force