Inspector Phillip Brooks

Operations Manager, Crash & Heavy Vehicle Investigations

Traffic & Highway Patrol Command

Integrated Police Road Safety Enforcement in NSW

NSW - Setting

• 5.59 million registered vehicles

• 4.89 million license holders (3.1m in Sydney)

• 734,000 novice license holders – L, P1 & P2

• 185,000 km of public roads

• 188,466 motorcycles (+6% per year)

NSWPF - Scale

• 15,956 sworn staff

• 3,500 civilian staff

• 474 police stations

• $2.9 billion budget

• 1137 HWP police

• 425 HWP vehicles

• 92 Motorcycles

Traffic Policy Statement

Key Program Areas:

• Speed Reduction

• Alcohol/Drug Testing

• Driver Fatigue

• Occupant Restraints

and Helmets

Fatal Crashes

Historical Fatal Data

Traffic Technology

The NSWPF is committed to sourcing, trialling and

implementing the latest technology to enhance our traffic

enforcement capability and improve road safety.

•ANPR

•ICV & IBV

•CAD II

•NextGen Radar, Lidar, Drug, Breath & Alcolysers

•RBT / RDT

•LED Lightbar / Solar Recharger

Next Technology – Mobile ANPR

Developed specification in-house

Integrated with other technologies (ICV, MDT, speedo)

Successfully trialled and

implemented in HWP

vehicles

210 + vehicles equipped with

a further 100 to come

Challenges

• Expanding population / urban development

• Increasing motorisation of communities

• Infrastructure constraints

• Advancing technology / rising costs

New Command Structure

Liberal/National Party election promise 2011 NSW

State Election

Single chain of command to focus on road safety

Command to deliver intelligence based outcomes for

road safety

Ensure HWP staff are rostered for road safety duties

Ensure HWP staff are consistently trained

Give HWP officers a clear career path

Govt pledge to increase HWP staff by 100 officers &

50 additional vehicles by Dec 2013

Traffic & Highway Patrol Command

• All HWP & CIU units to be under the one command

structure

• Formation of command will not relocate any resources

from current location

• All field based HWP & CIU units to be placed into 25

clusters across 6 Regions

• New position of Region Traffic Tactician (RTT) created

• RTT position evaluated at rank of Inspector

• RTT will be attached to the Region office

• Will fulfil the equivalent role of a LAC Commander for

HWP staff in that Region

Command & Control

Assistant Commissioner John Hartley APM Commissioner Andrew Scipione APM

Commander – Traffic & HWP Command Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas APM

Police Minister – The Hon Michael Gallacher

Deployment

Operation Freeflow

• Major arterials in/out of Sydney

• CHP model of HWP cars at regular intervals

• Coordinated by Police at Transport Management

Centre via CCTV

• Reduced response time from 18mins to 6mins

• Increased median traffic flow

• Increased infringements

• Decreases in major crashes / fatalities

Deployment

National Route 1 (Pacific Hwy, Hexham to Qld)

• National study identified this as worst stretch of

road in Australia

• Highlighted by fatality of child at Urunga, truck into

house

• Joint Operation with RMS, combination of Police

mobile enforcement, RMS Static & mobile camera

enforcement

• Reduced crashes & fatalities, greater

infringements & visibility

Deployment

National Route 31 (Hume Hwy, Liverpool to Victoria)

•Significant Heavy Vehicle transport corridor

•Serious injuries / fatalities involving heavy vehicles

•Joint Operation with RMS, focussing on use of Heavy

Vehicle Checking Stations

•Significant ‘CATCH’ focus for HWP officers – guns, drugs,

cash recovered

•Significant speeding events, children unrestrained

•Joint Operations with AFP HWP using ANPR

•Additional major road operations coming on line weekly at

the direction of the Strategic Road Safety Group

Motorcycle Response Team

Jointly funded with Transport for NSW – Centre for Road Safety

1 Sergeant, 9 Constables working from Transport Management Centre

Focus on CBD Congestion, vehicles & pedestrians

All new cyclists will be seconded for 6 months

Heavy Vehicle Enforcement in NSW

Op Marshall

Pulse wheel tampering

13 tooth pulse wheel

Black boxes

Black Boxes

overloaded

Load restraint

Camera avoidance

18 brakes faulty

Mining equipment

Operations Discovery, Overland, Explorer, Marshall, Octagon

•4244 trucks inspected

•112 speed limiters ‘non compliant’

•1377 infringements, breaches, defects

•19 charges of drug use, possession, whilst

driving under influence

•5900 drug tests, 70 charged

Operation Steel

Poor restraints

No restraints

defects

Operation Steel results

• 948 trucks intercepts

• 74 containers opened

• 246 traffic infringements, 393 defects issued

• 12 trucks from fleet grounded after one found

carrying unsecured metal steel cabling

• One container with unsecured mining equipment

• One container identified with 3 out of 4 locking

pins unsecured

• One driver charged in possession of ‘ice’

• One truck grounded with 15 defects

Current standing

• HWP / RMS training in ‘ECM downloading’ by the

roadside

• RMS supply of ‘Panasonic Toughbooks’ to HWP to allow

independent download & grounding capability

• RMS 24 Hour phone advice line for use by HWP in terms

of grounding / direction to HVIS.

• HWP / RMS joint training by TAFE in heavy vehicle

inspection

• HWP / RMS joint training in ‘CATCH’ (Highway Crime

Interdiction)

• Ongoing upload to ‘ACID / ALIEN’ database

2011/2012 results

HEAVY VEHICLE CRASHES

INJURY OR FATAL CRASH,

1072INJURY OR FATAL CRASH,

1001

NON INJURY / NON FATAL

CRASH, 3252

NON INJURY / NON FATAL

CRASH, 3363

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Fatalities

FATALITIES INVOLVING HEAVY VEHICLES

Deaths , 75

Crashes , 70

Crashes , 60

Deaths , 68

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The Results !

High Visibility Enforcement

Joint Road Safety messaging

Joint initiative with CRS

HiVis markings & rear window

paid for

50 Cars across NSW

Future Road Safety Campaigns

Questions