Traffic Manual - Queensland Police Service

Impoundment coordinator
means a person employed at a regional level, responsible for the management and control of
impounded or forfeited motor vehicles.
Intelligent – Traffic Analysis System (I-TAS)
means an enterprise system designed for the planning, reporting, and analysis of traffic-related
activities undertaken by the Service. I-TAS will enable intelligence based planning, rostering, and
assist in managing traffic operations.
Intelligent – Traffic Analysis System I-TAS taskings
are intelligence based shift objectives providing areas for traffic enforcement activities. Such
information is drawn from QPRIME recorded traffic crashes, arrest and complaint data, alcolmeter
downloads (including GPS functionality), Roadside Drug Testing Unit data, CAD/IMS, Traffic
Scheduling and Reporting System, Traffic Infringement Notice Management System and the Traffic
Camera Office.
Intercept
in respect to the driving of Service vehicles means the period from deciding to direct the driver of a
vehicle to stop until either the driver obeys the direction or fails to stop. The term includes:
(i) the period when the police vehicle closes with the subject vehicle in order to give the driver of
the vehicle a direction to stop; or
(ii) actions taken where an officer on foot has unsuccessfully attempted to intercept a motor
vehicle and a police vehicle is used to close with the subject vehicle in order to give the driver of
the vehicle a direction to stop (e.g. a static RBT site where a hand signal is not obeyed and a
police vehicle is then used to close with the subject vehicle to give the driver a further direction
to stop).
Officer in command
means the officer:
(i) in charge of an organisational unit whether functionally or geographically based; or
(ii) if there is no officer as referred to in paragraph (i), the officer present who is most senior in
rank; or
(iii) if there is no officer as referred to in paragraph (ii), the officer present who is most senior by
length of continuous service as an officer.
Operation
means an enforcement action for which an operational order or action plan has been completed. See
also s. 1.5.2: 'Operational planning – Action plans and operation orders' of the Operational Procedures
Manual and s. 13.5: 'Traffic Operations' of this Manual.
Operator
means any police officer authorised by the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (8G) to operate
either or both of the following –
(i) a breath analysing instrument;
(ii) a saliva analysing instrument.
(s. 80(1) of the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act, 'authorised police officer')
Owner of a vehicle
includes:
(i) a person in whose name the vehicle is registered under a transport Act or a corresponding
law of another State; and
(ii) a holder of a security interest registered for the vehicle under the Personal Property
Securities Act (Cwlth).
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