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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Demonstrate safe driving
   • Select police vehicles in accordance with operational suitability and fitness for purpose.
   • Complete pre-drive checks to establish vehicle’s operational readiness and safety.
   • Demonstrate safe driving techniques in controlled scenarios.
   • Assess road conditions and situational risks to inform driving response.
2. Enforce road policing legislation
   • Apply current legislation to support road policing services.
   • Interpret elements of different traffic offences for road policing purposes.
   • Use equipment associated with road policing to detect potential offences.
   • Identify unsafe driver behaviour and traffic offences to inform response.
   • Complete vehicle stops and pullovers to enable further investigation.
3. Control traffic
   • Use personal protection equipment when controlling traffic.
   • Direct traffic using traffic signals.
   • Regulate traffic flow and movement to minimise risks to safety of self, colleagues and public.
4. Conduct initial investigations of crash incidents
   • Secure crash incident scenes to identify and protect potential evidence.
   • Assess crash incidents to determine resources required.
   • Gather details of potential witnesses, offenders and victims for communication to stakeholders.
5. Demonstrate safe driving
   • Select police vehicles in accordance with operational suitability and fitness for purpose.
   • Complete pre-drive checks to establish vehicle’s operational readiness and safety.
   • Demonstrate safe driving techniques in controlled scenarios.
   • Assess road conditions and situational risks to inform driving response.
6. Enforce road policing legislation
   • Apply current legislation to support road policing services.
   • Interpret elements of different traffic offences for road policing purposes.
   • Use equipment associated with road policing to detect potential offences.
   • Identify unsafe driver behaviour and traffic offences to inform response.
   • Complete vehicle stops and pullovers to enable further investigation.
7. Control traffic
   • Use personal protection equipment when controlling traffic.
   • Direct traffic using traffic signals.
   • Regulate traffic flow and movement to minimise risks to safety of self, colleagues and public.
8. Conduct initial investigations of crash incidents
   • Secure crash incident scenes to identify and protect potential evidence.
   • Assess crash incidents to determine resources required.
   • Gather details of potential witnesses, offenders and victims for communication to stakeholders.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

observing road situations to identify safety issues related to road conditions, drivers and vehicles

referring and reporting safety issues to internal and external stakeholders

assessing road policing scenarios to identify traffic offences

communicating with stakeholders at crash incident scenes

preparing and driving police vehicles to deliver policing responses

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

work health and safety legislation

jurisdictional policies and procedures related to occupational/work health and safety

police driving

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