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ROAD POLICING: Fleeing Driver Policy Flashcards

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Fleeing Driver Policy.

  1. What is the overarching principal of the Fleeing Driver Policy? (1)
  2. What are the additional principals? (7)
A

Overarching Principal:

  1. Public and Police employee safety takes precedence over the immediate apprehension of a fleeing driver.

Additional Principals:

  1. Incidents must be managed in the safest possible manner.
  2. Enquiry phase preferred over fleeing driver pursiut whereever possible.
  3. Incidents will only be commenced/continued when the seriousness of the offence and the necessity of immediate apprehension outweigh the risk of pursuing.
  4. The driver fleeing does not in itself justfy a fleeing driver pursuit.
  5. Decisions to abandon will be supported.
  6. Use risk based assessments (TENR) and apply flexible response to changing circumstances.
  7. Fleeing drivers will be held to account.
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Fleeing Driver Policy.

What is a fleeing driver?

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Is a driver who has been signalled to stop by an Officer but fails to do so.

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Fleeing Driver Policy:

What is the key objective of a fleeing driver incident?

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Resolving the fleeing driver pursuit as safely and quickly as possible, using the least amount of Force.

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Fleeing Driver Policy.

The decision to commence, continue or abandon a fleeing driver pursuit must be contunually assessed and reassessed in accordance with the TENR risk assessment tool, to ensure? (2)

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  • Actual or Perceived risks are fully understood on a continuing basis AND
  • The tactical options avaliable are understood and deployed appropriately.
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Fleeing Driver Policy.

How Police conduct and manage fleeing driver incidents must balance? (3)

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  1. Public and Police emplyee safety
  2. Risks involved
  3. Public interest in apprehending those who FTS.
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Fleeing Driver Policy.

Who must monitor the risks and take responsibility to make decisions about the safe management and apprehension of the fleeing driver? (4)

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  1. Lead car (Driver or Passengers)
  2. Secondary car (Driver of Passengers)
  3. Field Supervisor
  4. Pursuit Controller.
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Fleeing Driver Policy.

The, lead and secondary cars (Drivers and passengers), pursuit controller or field supervisor can abandon a pursuit if they?

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Beleive that the risk to the public, police empoyees and/or the fleeing driver outweighs the seriousness of the offence and the necessity of of immediate apprehension.

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Fleeing Driver Policy.

What is the definition of TENR?

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THREAT - NECESSITY - EXPOSURE - RESPONE

Is a decision-making process that supports the timely and accurate assessment of information directly relevant to the safety of Police and others.

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Fleeing Driver Policy.

TENR: The response to any given situation must be? (3)

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  1. Timely
  2. Proportionate
  3. Appropriate
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Fleeing Driver Policy.

What is the overriding principal when applying TENR? (3)

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  1. Safety is Success.
  2. Public and employee safety is paramount.
  3. Every effort must be made to minimise harm and maximise safety.
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Responsibilities during a fleeing driver pursuit.

What are the primary responsibilities for the Lead Vehicle Driver to pursue a fleeing driver? (7)

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  1. Continuously assess the risks (TENR).
  2. Lights/Sirens are activated throughout pursuit.
  3. Direct the passenger to undertake comms.
  4. Notify Comms asa practicable and when safe to do so that a vehicle has FTS, location, direction, fleeing vehicle description, reason it is being pursued (failure to stop is not a reason)
  5. Acknowledge pursuit warning given by dispatcher.
  6. Maintain regulars comms woth Police comms when it is safe to do so.
  7. Comply with all directions from the Pursuit Controller.
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Responsibilities for those actively pursuing.

During a pursuit what are the responsibilites of a Police Costabulary passenger? (3)

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  1. Undertake radio comms if in lead vehicle.
  2. Advise Lead vehicle Driver of possible risks or any other considerations.
  3. May direct the Lead vehicle Driver to abandon. (pusuit controller must be notified of abandonment when safe to do so including the reason)
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Responsibilites for those activly pursuing.

What are the responsibilitys of the Secondary Vehicle during a pursuit? (3)

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  1. Follows behind Lead vehicle at a safe distance, to provide support and tactical options as required.
  2. Takes over pursuit commentary, if the lead vehicle is single crewed.
  3. May direct the pusuit to be abandoned by notifying the Pursuit Controller, when safe to do so, including the reason for abandonment.
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Responsibilites of those actively pursuing.

What are the responsibilities of other police vehicles in the vicinity or responding as a requested tactical option? (5)

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  1. Must not actively participate in pursuit or respond, unless preparing tactical options, undertaking a temporary road closure, collecting intelligence or are responding to a Pursuit Controller direction that could assist in safely stopping the fleeing driver.
  2. Notify Pursuit Controller your location, tactical option and seek permission, when safe to do so, if self-initiating a tactical option.
  3. Cease all non-essential radio comms.
  4. Must not follow behind pursuit unless directed or approved by the Pursuit Controller.
  5. Must comply with the ‘Urgent Duty Driving’ chapter and any direction from the Pursuit Controller.
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Communication information for fleeing driver incidents:

  1. The Police Staff responsible for the fleeing driver communications should provide the Pursuit Controller with what type of sit-reps?
  2. Where additional information is required or yet to be transmitted the dispatcher or pursuit controller should what?
A
  1. Timely and Uniform.
  2. Prompt for required details.
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Communication information for fleeing driver incidents.

Notification of driver failing to stop:

Police vehicle must advise Comms of the pursuit, when safe to do so, including the justifucation. What 5 things must you tell them?

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  1. COMMs (callsign) in pursuit
  2. Location
  3. Direction of travel
  4. Vehicle description
  5. Reason for pursuit.

NB: The lead vehicle must repeat the sit-rep until comms transmits acknowledge.

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Communication information for fleeing driver incidents.

  1. What is the pursuit warning that Police Comms transmits to all vehicle involved and what must the vehicles do?
A
  1. If there is any unjustifed risk to any person you must abandon pursuit immediately. Acknowledge.
  2. Vehicle/s acknowledges the pursuit warning with the words [Call sign] Affirm.
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Communication information for fleeing driver incidents.

Sit Rep:

How should commentary be maintained?

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With breaks, at 5 second intervals, or when safe to do so.

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Direction to abandon.

  1. When a pursuit is abandoned by the Pursuit Controller, Lead or Secondary vehicles, or the Field Supervisor the Pursuit Controller must do what?
  2. What can the Pursuit Controller then consider?
  3. What is the standard PC direction to abandon pursuit?
A
  1. Advise all vehicles involved that the pursuit is abandoned.
  2. Other tactical options or initiating as inquiry phase to apprehend the offender.
  3. All vehicles abandon pursuit now.
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Direction to abandon.

If Field Staff abandon a pursuit what must they notifiy Comms of? (3)

A
  1. Abandonment
  2. Reason
  3. Location.
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Direction to abadon.

Once the direction ot abadon is given, ALL vehicles must what? (2)

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  1. Abandon
  2. Comply with road user rule.
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Direction to abandon.

All Police vehicles actively pursuing must immediately carry out 6 steps following a direction or decision to abandon pursuit. List those steps?

A
  1. Acknowledge direction to abandon, or advise the PC that the pursuit has been abandoned.
  2. Immediately reduce speed to increase distance between fleeing vehicle and own.
  3. Deactivate warning devices once below posted speed.
  4. Stop as soon as it is safe to do so.
  5. Confirm to the PC they are stationary and state specific location.
  6. Undertake enquiry phase as directed by Field Supervisor.
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Inquiry Phase.

List 9 actions of an Inquiry Phase?

A
  1. Aircraft monitors the fleeing driver.
  2. Observations on known addresses.
  3. Registered vehicle address inquiry.
  4. Speed camera photographs.
  5. U/L taken M/V enquiries.
  6. Reported petrol drive-offs
  7. CCTV footage area enqiries.
  8. S118 LTA 1998 letter to the RO.
  9. 28 day impoundment S96(1AB) LTA 1998.
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Commencing a fleeing driver incident after abandonment.

  1. Permission must be sought from who to re-engage a vehicle previusly involved in an abandoned pursuit?
  2. Permission will only be granted if the PC is satisfied of what?
  3. The subsequent engagement and any new FTS would be what?
A
  1. Pursuit Controller.
  2. That any subsequent risks are mitigated or the situation has has changed.
  3. A new pursuit and notification.
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Tactcal Options.

What tactical options are avaliable? (7)

A
  1. Abandon pursuit.
  2. Aerial surveillance.
  3. Dog Unit.
  4. Inquiry Phase.
  5. Non-compliant vehicle stop (moving block) (AOS or STG).
  6. Tyre deflation devices.
  7. Temporary road closure.
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Tactical Options.

Aerial surveillance is initiated by the PC. Under what condition can Aerial surveillace be used?

A

When avaliable to take over responsibility of providing commentary to the PC.

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Tactical Options.

Non-compliant vehicle stop (moving block) (AOS or STG) can be initiated by AOS or STG commander under what condition?

A

In response to a mobile and armed fleeing driver

AND

Can only be conducted by AOS or STG members tranined in the tactic.

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Tactical Options.

Tyre deflation devices can be initiated by who? (3)

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  1. Pursuit Controller.
  2. Trained Police employees in exceptional circumstances.
  3. Police Comms Shift Commander for deployments on heavy vehicles.
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Aerial Surveillance.

  1. If an aircraft is involved in a fleeing driver incident, and the PC calls for the pursuit to be abandoned, does the direction apply to the aircraft?
  2. Where an aircraft is directed to cease observations, what must the aircraft do?
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  1. No UNLESS specifically directed to do so.
  2. The aircrew will leave the area as safely and quickly as possible.
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Aerial Surveillance.

The PC must continually assess the risk involved in ongoing aerial surveillance, and abandon aerial observations if necessary.

List 7 ways an aircraft will assist the PC in the control and coordination of the pursuit?

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  1. Provide Sit-Reps.
  2. Advise PC of any breaches of Police Policy by pursuing or tactical vehicles, including the use of any unauthorised vehicles involved in the pursuit.
  3. Continual TENR and advise of change in justfication to pursue.
  4. Recommending abadonment to PC.
  5. Ceasing Aerial Sureveillance and advise PC (contribting to risk).
  6. Recording the pursuit and notifying PC that recording.
  7. Monitoring and relaying info via Comms after the pursuit has been abandoned or fleeing driver on foot.
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AOS/STG non-compliant vehicle stop.

In situations involving an armed fleeing driver, AOS or STG Commanders are approved to authorise a non-compliant vehicle stop. This can only be done when?

A

There is no other timely practical method of containing the fleeing driver or neutralising the threat they present, and the fleeing driver does not comply with signals or requests to stop.

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AOS/STG non-compliant vehicle stop.

AOS and STG personnel can undertake a non-compliant vehicle stop when? (5)

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  1. Responding to a mobile armed fleeing driver.
  2. They are trained in its use.
  3. It is undertaken in accordance with AOS or STG Standard Operating Procedures.
  4. Authorised by an AOS or STG commander.
  5. It is undertaken in the capacity of an AOS or STG operation.
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Powers in respect of pursuing fleeing drivers.

  1. What is s114 - Land Transport Act 1998 used for?
  2. What is s9 (S&S) Act 2012 used for?
  3. What is s121 (S&S) Act 2012 used for?
  4. What is s39 CA 1961 used for?
  5. What is the Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004 provide?
A
  1. s114 - Empowers the Constable to stop a vehicle for traffic enforcement purposes specified in s114.
  2. s9 - Empowers a constable to stop a vehicle without a warrant to arrest a person u/l at large or has committed an imprisonable offence and beleive that person is in that vehicle.
  3. s121 - Empowers a constable to stop a vehicle to conduct a search under a power of search, without warrant or with a warrant.
  4. s39 - Protection from criminal responsibility to effect arrest.
  5. Rule 5.1 LTR - Provides a defence for exceeding speed limits for urgent duty by a constable in emergency vehicle red beacon or siren.

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