Thread: This one's going down
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Old 23-12-2009, 21:55   #409
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Re: This one's going down
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Originally Posted by Derek S View Post
100MPH? Can't recall the speed getting that high on the video or in the evidence at the trial.

Surely you aren't using emotive numbers to try and back up your argument?

Anyway as for the radio part I've no idea whether or not he asked for assistance but I'll refer you to post 285 in this thread which shows the video of the incident that I'd recommend you watch. In case you don't want to check the post I'll repost the highlights.

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He accelerates hard away up a hill to catch the vehicle. In these 20 seconds or so he has to (he is alone in the car so no neighbour to do it

* Continue driving
* Make ground on the vehicle
* Inform his control room he is pursuing a vehicle
* Decide whether to activate his lights and sirens which may alert the vehicle (still unsighted) he is after it any allow it to dive down a side street
The video - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7990188.stm
I don't understand your point. It doesn't take long to flick a switch. I presume that police cars are equipped with some form of hands free comms, perhaps a push-to-talk system, like I have in my Cessna 182. Talking of which, if you can imagine the procedures taken to avert a spinning dive, before the fifteen seconds it would take to smash into the ground at three hundred knots, I would pretty much believe a police officer in a car could flick a switch to turn on his lights.

Ninety-four miles per hour, is not that short of a hundred really is it. If any other person was approaching a blind corner, in a residential area, wouldn't they slow down a bit? It would not have taken much off the pursuit time, to have slowed down to forty miles per hour, allowing enough stopping time in the event of an emergency.

Informing the control room is part of the pursuit procedure, the control room supervisor would be the pursuit commander and authorisation would happen in a matter of seconds.

The greater risk is to the public when not using lights and sirens. The priority is their safety, not the apprehension of a driver who is not evading capture.
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