TA07 TOF/TENR Flashcards
What is a PCA?
Perceived Cumulative Assessment
- is your subjective assessment, and continuous reassessment, of an incident using TENR, based on information known about the situation and subject’s behaviour.
What is TENR?
A systematic threat assessment process that is intended to provide better outcomes for Police: increase staff and public safety, eliminate preventable harm and reduce criticism
What is the overriding principle of TENR?
Safety is Success
What are the TENR ingredients?
THREAT: intent, capability, opportunity, environment
- means any individual/s or group/s, or any act/s, or any thing/s likely to cause harm that might hinder police in the execution of their duties
EXPOSURE: means the potential for harm to the public, to police staff, to police reputation
NECESSITY: involves assessing everything that is known about a situation to determine if there is a need for intervention and. if so, whether to act immediately, delay or not at all.
RESPONSE: developing a plan in and acting in a proportionate and timely manner using appropriate tactics and tactical options, having considered all the known or reasonably predictable circumstances in any given situation
In TENR what are the different ‘subject’s behaviour’?
Cooperative Passive Resistance Active Resistance Assaultive GBH or Death
How does section 39 of the Crimes Act 1961 authorise you to use force?
Outlines the justification for the use of force when carrying out an arrest or executing a warrant or process
How does Section 40 of the Crimes Act 1961 authorise you to use force?
Preventing escape or rescue
relates to the use of force that may be necessary to prevent a person trying to avoid arrest or to escape after arrest.
How does Section 41 of the Crimes Act 1961 authorise you to use force?
Preventing a suicide or certain offences
relates to the use of force to prevent suicide or certain offences.
How does Section 42 of the Crimes Act 1961 authorise you to use force?
to prevent a breach of the peace
gives justification to those witnessing a breach of the peace (not just police) to interfere, using force if necessary, to prevent the disturbance form continuing or restarting.
How does Section 48 of the Crimes Act 1961 authorise you to use force?
is the justification of the use of force in self-defence or the defence of another.
Explain the liability imposed by Section 62 of the Crimes Act 1961
Makes anyone authorised by law to use force, criminally responsible for any excessive use of force.
“Everyone authorised by law to use force is criminally responsible for any excess, according to the nature and quality of the act that constitutes the excess.”
What is Section 32 of the Policing Act 2008 for?
Identifying particulars of person in custody.
Allows force to be used to obtain details of identification - fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, photographs and biographical details - from people in lawful custody and detained for committing an offence.
Only applies when the person is at a police station or at any other place being used for police purposes.
What is Section 33 of the Policing Act 2008 for?
Identifying particulars for summons.
Allows force to be used to obtain details of identification - fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, photographs and biographical details - from people suspected of committing offences and there is intention
to proceed against them by way of issuing a summons.
How does Section 11 and Section 125 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 justify the use of force?
Custody Search
Under a section 11 search, Section 125(1)(d) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 allows for reasonable use of force to be used to remove money and property from a person in lawful police custody, who is to be locked up in police custody.
When must a Tactical Options Report be submitted?
A TOR (tactical options report) must be submitted when, in execution of a duty, a Constable or Authorised Officer shows or uses reportable force on any person regardless of whether or not that person has been arrested.
