Originally Posted by Flyboy

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 Cessana 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.