General

Question 1

What makes up the code of ethics?

Answer 1

Honesty
Integrity
Fairness
Accountability
Openness
Leadership
Objectivity
Respect 
Selflessness

Question 2

CoP 10 risk principles

Answer 2

1. Willingness to make decisions in conditions of uncertainty
2. Maintaining or achieving the safety and well-being of individuals and communities is the primary consideration in risk decision making.
3. Maintaining or achieving the safety and well-being of individuals and communities is the primary consideration in risk decision making.
4. Harm can never be totally prevented. Risk decisions should, therefore, be judged by the quality of the decision making, not by the outcome.
5. Taking risk decisions, and reviewing others’ risk decisions, is difficult so account should be taken of whether they involved dilemmas or emergencies, were part of a sequence of decisions or might appropriately have been taken by other agencies.
6. The standard expected and required of members of the Police is that their risk decisions should be consistent with those a body of officers of similar rank, specialism and experience would have taken in the same circumstances.
7. Whether to document a decision is a risk decision it itself which should, to a large extent, be left to professional judgement. Deciding whether or not to make a record, however, and the extent of that record, should be informed by consideration of the likelihood of harm occurring and its seriousness.
8. To reduce risk aversion and improve decision making, policing needs a culture that learns from successes as well as failures. Good risk-taking should be identified, celebrated and shared.
9. Since good risk taking depends upon quality information, the Police Service will work with partner agencies to share relevant information about those who pose risk or those who are vulnerable to the risk of harm.
10. Members of the Police Service who make decisions consistent with these principles should receive the encouragement, approval and support of their organisation.

Question 3

ADVOKATE

Answer 3

Amount of time suspect observed
Distance
Visibility
Obstructions
Known or seen before
Any reason to remember suspect
Time lapsed between first and subsequent identification by police
Errors between first description an actual appearance

Question 4

COPPLANID

Answer 4

Child or vulnerable person
Obstruction of highway
Public decency
Prevent injury
Loss or damage to property
Address not ascertained
Name not ascertained
Investigation
Disappearance of person

Question 5

HAVVaMOAT

Answer 5

Hovercraft
Aircraft
Vehicle
Vessel
a Moveable structure
Offshore structure
Anything else
Tent

Question 6

What type of offence is vagrancy?

Answer 6

summary only

Question 7

What is the offence of ‘found on enclosed premises’?

Answer 7

Any person found in or upon any dwelling or house, warehouse, coachhouse, stable or outhouse or in any enclosed yard, garden or area for any unlawful purpose, commits an offence.

Question 8

What does ‘unlawful purpose’ refer to in terms of found on enclosed premises?

Answer 8

It must be to commit a criminal offence, not simply trespassing.