DEFS 4

• Evidence-based policing - In an evidence-based policing approach, police officers and staff create, review, and use the best available evidence to inform and challenge policies, practices, and decisions.
• Definition of a highway - A highway is a road, bridge, carriageway, cart way, horseway, bridleway, footway, causeway, church way or pavement.
• Drink driving - It is an offence to drive or attempt to drive of be in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of in his breath, blood or urine exceeds the prescribed limit.
• Unfit through drink or drugs - It is an offence to drive or attempt to drive or be in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place whilst unfit to drive through drink or drugs.
• Power of entry following injury RTC - Where a constable reasonably suspects the accident involved the injury of any person: they may enter any place (by reasonable force if necessary) for the purpose of - Requiring a preliminary test. To arrest after a positive breath or drug test. To arrest after failure or refusal to provide a breath test (must suspect alcohol or drugs)
• Lighting fires on or over a highway, discharging firearm or firework - If a person without lawful authority or reasonable excuse: (a) Lights any fire on or over a highway which consists of or comprises a carriageway, or (b) Discharges any firearm or firework within 50 feet of the centre of such a highway, and in consequence, a user of the highway is injured, interrupted, or endangered, that person is guilty of an offence.
• Defining evidence - Evidence is information that may be presented to a court or tribunal in order that it may decide some fact before it.
• Reportable accidents are those that occur due to the presence of a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place, causing personal injury to a person other than the driver of that vehicle or damage to a vehicle other than the one being driven, or to an animal other than an animal in or on the vehicle, or to any other property constructed on, fixed to, growing in or otherwise forming part of the land in which the road or place is situated and land adjacent to such land.