Road Policing

Question 1

What must urgent duty driving be?

Answer 1

Justified in response to the threat

Question 2

How is safety prioritised when driving?

Answer 2

Recognizing that no duty is so urgent that it requires the public or police to be placed at unjustified risk

Question 3

Overarching principal?

Answer 3

Public and police employee safety takes precedence over the necessity to undertake urgent duty driving

Question 4

What s a critical incident?

Answer 4

Force or threat of force is involved

Risk of serious harm

Responding to people in the act of committing a crime

Question 5

Field supervisor role for urgent duty driving?

Answer 5

Manages police performance re driving

Identifies and manages health & safety risks to those staff

Reports policy breaches

Investigates and reports crashes of a Police vehicle

Question 6

Supervisors role during a pursuit?

Answer 6

Maintain supervisory oversight

Provide support to staff, avoid direct involvement

Continuously perform own TENR

Direct abandonment if TENR identifies risk outweighs initial threat

Question 7

Actions on abandoning a pursuit?

Answer 7

Acknowledge the direction to abandon

Reduce speed to increase distance

Deactivate warning devices once below speed limit

Stop as soon as safe to do so

Advise controller stationary and location

Stop searching for offending driver

Resume normal duties

Question 8

Supervisor responsibility after a pursuit?

Answer 8

Hot debrief with comms

Ensure fleeing driver notification and NIA records completed before end of shift* (within 5 days)

Complete notification on behalf if resulted in serious injury or death

Review the notification

Health and safety reporting

Ensure investigation commenced

Question 9

s113 LTA 1998

What powers does it give?

Answer 9

Officers may enforce transport legislation

Direct
Inspect
Move
Remove
Forbid

Question 10

s114 LTA 1998

Stopping and obtaining particulars

Answer 10

May stop a vehicle for as long as necessary to complete the exercise or obtain particulars.

15 mins max to establish identity

Question 11

s119 LTA 1998

Powers of entry if freshly pursuing

Answer 11

Enter any premises to determine s68 or s69 (EBA) should be exercised

Exercising any such power

Question 12

s35 LTA 1998

When can a constable close a road?

Answer 12

Reasonable cause to believe:

Public disorder exists or is imminent

Danger to a member of the public exists or may be expected near that place

Offence 10+ years has been committed or discovered at or near that place