Road Policing and Fleeing Drivers Flashcards
What is the Road Safety Strategy goal?
“Road to Zero” 40% reduction in deaths and serious injuries by 2030.
What are the guiding principles of Road to Zero strategy? (7)
- Promote good choices but plan for mistakes
- Design for human vulnerability
- Strengthen roading system
- Shared responsibility for safety
- Actions by evidence
- Actions support health, wellbeing
- Safety is a critical decision making process.
What are the five focus areas for RP?
- Infrastructure and Speed
- Vehicle and safety
- Work-related road safety
- Road User choices
- Systems management
What are RP’s Goals (3)
Safe Homes
Safe Roads
Safe Communities
The RP partnerships programme has invested 75% in what four offence types that cause most harm?
RIDS
Restraints
Impairment
Distraction
Speed
In approaching road safety from a ‘whole of Police’ approach we should recognise what? (3)
- Some road safety risks have genesis in other areas (organised crime, family violence, alcohol harm and youth)
- Road safety acheived through more than enforcement alone. Preventions activities alongside partners
- reducing trauma rlies on understanding and deploying to risk.
What is a repeat registrations report
Report identifying recidivist high risk drivers subject to the tasking and co-ordination process. Updated monthly
Are staff outputs used as a performance measure
No. More longer term outcomes such as reducing road deaths is measured.
What is a fleeing driver? (2)
Driver signalled to stop
fails to stop or remain stopped
OR
Driver who flees as a result of Police presence
whether signalled to stop or not
What is the overiding principle when applying TENR risk assessment to fleeing incidents
Safety is success
The TENR risk assessment in a fleeing driver incident must balance…
- Initial Threat posed by vehicle occupants
- neccesity to immediatly apprehend driver/passengers
- risk of harm to any person if driver stops or fails to remain stopped
All fleeing driver events will be reviewed to determine whether decision was: (5)
- appropriate
- lawful
- justified, considering all circumstances
- Compliant with Police Instructions
- whether lessons learnt to be applied
What are the principles of the fleeing driver policy? (10)
1: Safety of staff, vehicle occupants and public
2: Failing to stop is not in itself reason for pursuit.
3: Investigation is preferred to pursuit
4: Pursuit justified only when risk posed by occupants prior to 3T and Necessity to immediately apprehend outweighs the risk of harm created by pursuit.
5: Consider risk of harm when CYP’s involved
6: Collective responsibilty of all staff to manage fleeing driver event safely as possible
7: Investigated and offenders held to account
8: Fleeing driver events reviewed timely to manage or escelate health and safety risks, training issues, systematic issues or lessons learnt.
9: Decision not to pursue will be supported
10: staff criminally liable if manner of driving contravenes legislation
What three things must you consider prior to 3T?
INITIAL Threat - posed by occupants
Necessity to immediately apprehend
Risk of harm created by pursuit.
If information available indicates driver is likely to flee what should Comms be advised (3)
- Reason for wanting to stop driver
- Intention to signal driver to stop
- whether pursuit would be initiated if driver fails to stop
Who has command & control of a fleeing driver event?
Pursuit Controller
What are the pursuit controller responsibilities? (9)
Control and command of pursuit
Confirms initial reason for 3T
Directs abandonment of pursuit
Ensuring acknowledgements are received
Performs TENR
Plans resolution
Limits pursuing vehicles to two
Co-ordinates tactical units
Monitors to ensure sufficient risk information being provided
During a TENR risk assessment we evaluate:
Threat posed by occupants
Who may be harmed if driver flees
Is Police increasing or Decreasing risk of harm
Are risks of prusuit greater than initial risk posed by driver
Alternative options for resolving
What are some considerations to include: (11)
- Seriousness of offence
- need to pursue outweigh risk
- resolve by alternative means
- Safety of all road users
- was fleeing driver driving normally prior to being signalled but now dangerously
- identity of driver/passengers
- age of driver and decision making ability
- number and age of passengers and influence over driver
- manner and speed of driving
- frequency and sufficiency of sitreps (continuing TENR)
- Environment, road conditions, weather, driver behaviuor, school hours etc continuous TENR
When must a dispatcher abandon pursuit?
When there is no pursuit controller or team leader available.
When must the pursuit controller abandon pursuit? (5)
1: TENR assessment supports abandonment
2: identity of driver becomes known and/or fleeing driver doesn’t pose immediate threat and likely they can be apprehended later.
3: Pursuing units lose contact with fleeing driver
4: Sustained loss of comms, pursuing units
5. Reason for pursuit not provided or insufficient
What is the action of units abandoning pursuit? (7)
Acknowledge
Reduce speed immediately
Deactivate emergency signals
Stop when safe
Advise comms stationary
Stop searching for target
Resume normal duties
Responsibilities of driver/constabulary passenger post fleeing driver incident (4)
- Request Comms K6 or K9 event
- Completes Fleeing driver notification before end of shift (or 5 days with prior approval and before RDO and Leave
- Creates NIA investigation file
- Health and Safety or near miss, My Police incident or near miss must be recorded before end of shift
What is responsibility of Supervisor after fleeing driver event?(6)
- Hot debrief
- Ensure fleeing driver notification and NIA records before end of shift (OR with approval within 5 days and before RDO/Leave)
- Supervisor to complete staff notification if injured/unable
- Reviews fleeing driver notification to ensure complience within 5 days of report being submitted for review
- Ensures Health and safety reporting completed
- Ensures investigation to identity of offender commenced
District reviewer responsibilty after fleeing driver event (level 2 review)
- Reviews fleeing driver notification to ensure complience
- Reviews Comms audio
- Reviews ASU footage
- indentifies, manages, escelates Health and Safety risks training issues, systematic issues or lessons learnt
- Ensures all fleeing driver events have NIA record
- Complies with any national review process
Post pursuit, a patrol vehicle sees (rediscovers) the target vehicle driving. What is the radio protocol for initiating a vehicle stop?
1: Advise comms - vehicle located
2: Location DoT
3: Summarise Threat, Exposure and risk.
4: ASK “Comms, permission signal driver to stop?”
A. Who can authorise whether a second attempt can be made (rediscovered post pursuit) to stop a vehicle?
B. When will permissin only be given
A. Shift Commander
B. Only in circumstances where threat posed by vehicle occupants
and neccisty to immediately apprehend
outweighs risk of the pursuit
Who may initiate abandon pursuit?
Initiating or secondary unit drivers and constabulary passengers
Field supervisor
Dispatcher
Pursuit Controller
Who and under what power can order a temporary road closure?
Pursuit Controller
S30 - 32 S&S Act 2012 (unlawfully at large, or commited offence punishable by prison)
Who is responsible for ensuring the NIA file is created?
Field Supervisor
What may the Pursuit Controller request ASU to do?
Take primary comms
Coordinate ground units
A. Does the direction to abandon pursuit apply to ASU?
B. What should they do once advised to abandon
Yes
Immediately cease all radio comms and await further direction from comms
Who can undertake a non compliant vehicle stop and under what rules?
AOS and STG when
1: Trained
2: In accordance with SOP’s
3: When authorised by AOS or STG Commander
