Police pursuits

Policy on police pursuits has been tightened massively in the just under 14 years that I've been in. You used to be able to go after a fail to stop with no pursuit training but that was binned a good few years back.

I remember having about 4 years in when a known disqualified driver saw me and took off. Liaising with control room, I went after him and it came to the point where he approached a 30 zone in excess of 80 and numerous people were going about their business both vehicles and people. I took the decision to abort as it was too dangerous however PC Fate stepped in and he lost control and ploughed into a central refuge and hot footed it ....... leaving his pregnant lass in the car.

Now, if that happened and you don't have authority or training for initial pursuit then you don't go after them.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Policy on police pursuits has been tightened massively in the just under 14 years that I've been in. You used to be able to go after a fail to stop with no pursuit training but that was binned a good few years back.

I remember having about 4 years in when a known disqualified driver saw me and took off. Liaising with control room, I went after him and it came to the point where he approached a 30 zone in excess of 80 and numerous people were going about their business both vehicles and people. I took the decision to abort as it was too dangerous however PC Fate stepped in and he lost control and ploughed into a central refuge and hot footed it ....... leaving his pregnant lass in the car.

Now, if that happened and you don't have authority or training for initial pursuit then you don't go after them.
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Some of the stories some of my longer serving colleagues tell are hilarious. Stories of pursuits going off road, whilst in a van, and ending with them ramming suspects. They make it sound fantastic..

Nowadays, given half the chance, it seems they'll go through the black box with a fine tooth comb to see if you broke the speed limit at any point in your shift..
 
wazza300 said:
I reckon it could be done easily,they just don't wanna put cops out of jobs

if you can get a text if your cars stolen then they can easily design something to kill the engine management remotely

only the manufacturers could know where its installed ect,you could even hide the antenna inside the bodyshell skin
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I think your massively underestimating the ingenuity of some people - pretty much like anti-piracy measures, etc. someone somewhere is going to make it their life mission to figure out how to beat the system then the information gets out into public domain.
 
wazza300 said:
that part plod can do,but aimless chasing can be ruled obsolete
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You'd still need officers to be in a position behind the suspect vehicle before any action can be taken though. All you're really offering is a complicated and expensive way of bringing a car to a stop when a stinger or TPAC will do the job without costing car owners and/or taxpayers a massive sum of money in order to implement a system on every single car on the off-chance that one day it's involved in a fail-to-stop.
 
andi said:
Some of the stories some of my longer serving colleagues tell are hilarious. Stories of pursuits going off road, whilst in a van, and ending with them ramming suspects. They make it sound fantastic..

Nowadays, given half the chance, it seems they'll go through the black box with a fine tooth comb to see if you broke the speed limit at any point in your shift..
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They don't even have to do that. Command and control systems can track vehicles via GPS and determine speed from it.

Black boxes record speed, gear, revs, force load while cornering which is why I refute allegations that police are above the law. The job will have you if you drive like the stig and they have numerous ways to do it.
 
Dis86 said:
Except I have fired a gun. At a moving target from the back of a pickup.
Granted I missed but not by much. Others with me didn't.

And I'm not a highly trained and experienced marksman with a military grade weapon.
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Just lol


Mogadishu - apparently in Northumberland...
 
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