Vehicle Pursue Policy Case Study

The Department investigates each vehicle pursuit and the correlating data in order to use lessons learned to update policy, procedures and training. This year, the vehicle pursuit policy was updated based on the lessons learned as the result of several administrative investigations. These investigations included an officer involved shooting involving multiple officers that occurred at the termination of a vehicle pursuit, an officer involved shooting in which officers were attempting to pre-deploy stop-sticks and were confronted by the suspect and an investigation in which poor tactics and decision making was employed by both officers and supervisors during a vehicle