5.2 Road Policing & Fleeing Driver Flashcards
(29 cards)
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)
- We PROMOTE good choices but plan for mistakes
- We DESIGN for human vulnerability
- STRENGTHEN roading system
- SHARED responsibility to improve road safety
- Our actions are grounded in EVIDENCE and evaluation
- Our road safety actions SUPPORT health, wellbeing, and liveable places
- We make SAFETY a critical decision-making priority
What are the five focus areas for RP?
- Infrastructure improvements and speed management
- Vehicle 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 achieved through more than enforcement alone. Preventions activities alongside partners
- Reducing trauma relies on understanding and deploying to risk, and a genuine whole of police approach
What is a High Risk Driver report?
Report identifying recidivist high risk drivers subject to the tasking and coordination 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?
Driver signalled to stop fails to stop or remain stopped
No longer includes fleeing police presence
The TENR risk assessment in a fleeing driver incident must balance…
- initial threat posed by vehicle occupants
- necessity to immediately apprehend driver/passengers
- ongoing risk of harm to any person if driver stops or fails to remain stopped
What are the principles of the fleeing driver policy? (9)
- All staff share a collectively responsibility for ensuring a fleeing driver event managed as safely as possible.
- All fleeing driver events will be reported, and the appropriate action taken.
- Safety of staff, vehicle occupants and public takes precedence over apprehension.
- An investigation is a viable alternative to initiating or continuing a pursuit.
- Pursuit only possible if one of the justifications in the framework are met (offence/harm risk=high & assault/GBH/death)
- A decision not to pursue or to abandon a pursuit will be supported.
- Fleeing driver events reviewed timely to manage or escalate health and safety risks, training issues, systematic issues or lessons learnt.
- Actions and behaviour of a driver (or occupants) must be given consideration when applying TENR and determining appropriate response.
- Staff may be criminally liable if their actions contravenes legislation.
If information available indicates driver is likely to flee what should ECC be advised (4)
- Initial reason for wanting to stop the driver AND
- Intention to signal the driver to stop AND
- whether pursuit would be initiated if the driver fails to stop AND
- any plan to stop a fleeing vehicle
All fleeing driver events will be reviewed to determine whether decision was: (4)
- reasonable, proportionate and necessary
- lawful
- justified, considering all the circumstances
- compliant with police instructions and policy
The fleeing driver management process includes which drivers?
Includes drivers who:
* are unaware of the signal to stop
* are unaware of the required action when signalled to stop by Police
* deliberately fail to stop or remain stopped
Who has command & control of a fleeing driver event?
Pursuit Controller
What are the four anchoring factors that assist in informing your TENR when determining whether a pursuit should be initiated or continued?
- Time of day
- Environment (traffic conditions, location)
- Driver/occupant profile
- Offence
If the decision is made not to pursue a fleeing driver, the officer must: (6)
- Communicate this decision to the ECC, ECC creates a FLEE event
- Immediately reduce speed to increase distance OR remain stationary if already stopped
- Deactivate warning devices once below posted speed limit
- Stop as soon as safe to do so.
- Advice the ECC stop location
- Resume normal duties or deploy to other events as directed
If the decision is made to initiate a pursuit, the officer must:
- Notify the ECC that you have initiated a pursuit
- Communicate the initial reason for signalling the driver to stop and their justification for pursuit
- Ensure lights and sirens are used at all times during the pursuit
Who may initiate abandon pursuit?
- Lead or secondary vehicle drivers or their passengers
- Field supervisor
- ASU
- Pursuit Controller
- Dispatcher
What is the overriding principle of fleeing driver events?
Police and public safety take precedence over the immediate apprehension of an offender
When, during a fleeing driver event, must the pursuit be abandoned?
- TENR identifies risk of harm outweighs the initial or ongoing threat posed by vehicle occupants and the need to immediately apprehend
- Pursuing units lose contact with fleeing driver
- Sustained loss of comms with pursuing units
- Reason for pursuit not provided or insufficient
Note: reason to abandon should be communicated to all units and recording in the fleeing driver report.
What tactical options are available to monitor or stop a fleeing vehicle? (6)
- ASU
- AOS or STG non-compliant veh stop
- Dog unit
- Temporary road closure
- Cordon and contain
- TDD’s
Who and under what power can order a temporary road closure?
Pursuit Controller
s35 Policing Act - danger to a member of public exists or may reasonably be expected at or near that place
When MUST a dispatch abandon a pursuit?
When there is no pursuit controller or team leader available
