CPK - Road Policing Flashcards
What is the overriding principle for urgent duty driving
- Public and Police safety takes precedence over necessity to urgent duty driving
- No duty is so urgent that it requires public or Police to be placed in unjustified risk
What type of vehicles should be used when deployed UDD?
- Cat A as more visible
- Can use other but consider risk assessment for self
What is urgent duty driving?
Driving above speed limit or nature flow of traffic and not comply with traffic rules
eg
- Responding to critical incident
- Gathering evidence of offence
- Arresting offender or fleeing driver
- Motorade
- Act approved by Commissioner
What is a critical incident?
- Force or threat of force to person faces risk
- of serious harm
- people in act of committing crime
What is a tactical approach and is there a defence if something going thought traffic lights or intersections?
- Urgent driving without lights or sirens
- Allows to get closer to incident
- without alerting everyone
- better chance of getting evidence
- no defence for traffic lights and intersections
What is the overriding principle for fleeing driver?
- Public and Police safety take precedence over the immediate apprehension of a fleeing driver
Who can conduct a non complaint vehicle stop?
- Trained AOS or STG members
- in response to armed fleeing driver
What is your power to stop a vehicle under the Land Transport Act 1998 for traffic enforcement?
- S114
Section 113 allows Police to complete some acts on the vehicle and require some things from people. What are these things?
- Obtained details of person whether or not in charge of vehicle
- Inspect, test, examine the brakes or any part of vehicle or documents on vehicle
- Enter or authorise person to move vehicle causing obstruction in road or entrance to property.
- Forbid driver without license
- vehicle or riding animal to stop in particular line of traffic
- Direct pedestrian not to cross road
Section 114 give the power to stop and get details of driver. What does this section allow?
- Stop with lights or siren
- Obtain details of driver
- if own vehicles and if not who does
- Stop no longer the 15 mins to obtained details
- K9 for false details
You suspect a person has failed to comply with S114 and has committed traffic offence (reckless or dangerous, Drug or EBA). S119 is a power of enter what does it allow you to do?
- MUST BE freshly pursing
- enter and use force
- exercise power as if located person were in a vehicle
- No power to K9 except for EBA
Section 120 allows a power to K9 for certain circumstances what are they?
- EBA offences
- Causing death or injury EBA
- Assault Police
- Doesn’t complete CIT
S121 allows you to immobile a vehicle what does this allow you to do and what must to happen to do this?
- Person in charge
- Incapable of control physical or mental condition
- Did not complete CIT
- Failed or refused EBA test
- Work or test time
- Can
- forbidden for specific time
- Direct to drive to place for rest
- Take keys
- Immobile vehicle or move
Can you K9 for driving while forbidden?
YES
If a driver has breached licence conditions under S121A what can you do?
- Forbid
- Take keys
- Immobile vehicle
- K9 for failing to comply
