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3 results foundAuthor: New Zealand Police Title: Pursuit Policy Review Summary: This review takes into account the previous work undertaken in regard to pursuits and how they are managed. It examines international research and how it can be applied in a New Zealand context. The review also acknowledges where improvements can be made in the policy and assesses how other jurisdictions deal with this complex area of policing. From both the research analysis and assessment of the policies obtained for this report, a number of recommendations have been made, which, if adopted, will further enhance the policy, and ensure that the risks involved in a pursuit are mitigated as much as possible. Details: Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Police, 2010. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 24, 2010 at: http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/New%20Zealand%20Police%20Pursuits%20Review%20-%20June%202010.pdf Year: 2010 Country: New Zealand URL: http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/New%20Zealand%20Police%20Pursuits%20Review%20-%20June%202010.pdf Shelf Number: 119679 Keywords: Police Pursuit Driving |
Author: Lum, Cynthia Title: Police Pursuits in an Age of Innovation and Reform: The IACP Police Pursuit Database Summary: The IACP Police Pursuit Database Project is particularly timely, as pursuit policy today is influenced by additional forces than those police faced in the 1970s, 1980s, or even the early 1990s. Factors which traditionally motivated reform in this area drew attention to two often competing values: apprehending and deterring those who break the law, and ensuring the safety of all parties that potentially could be involved. This balance of crime control with safety and liability is a recurrent theme not only in police pursuits but many other activities of which a democratic and modern police agency is engaged. Such a balance can be detected in the evolution of the many legal decisions regarding police pursuits as well as in police pursuit policies. While thinking about this balance is essential in developing pursuit policy, an additional, compelling factor makes discussions of police pursuits especially timely in today’s policing environment. Specifically, there has been an increased demand and use of more proactive deployment and managerial policing innovations since the 1990s. Such innovations include directed (hot spots) patrol, problem-oriented policing, COMPSTAT, crime analysis, information-driven management, zero tolerance, community policing, and evidence-based policing, among others. These innovations change the use and symbolic meaning of police vehicles, in turn significantly altering the nature, frequency, risk, and consequences of high-speed pursuits. It is in both of these contexts – concerns of the balance between deterrence and safety, and the demands of proactive police innovations – that we frame this report. In this final report, we detail IACP’s endeavors in developing the Police Pursuit Database in light of these dual concerns. Thus, not only will we analyze the current data collected by the IACP, but we will also provide a review of existing studies of police pursuits, a discussion of contemporary pursuit policies, and present a broader framework for thinking about pursuits in an age of innovation and reform. In Section 2, we begin by offering an argument as to why this topic is especially relevant in today’s proactive policing environment of COMPSTAT, crime analysis, problem-solving, evidence-based policing, community policing, hot spot patrol and quality of life policing. Placing the discussion of police pursuits in this current context emphasizes and acknowledges that police policy does not occur in a vacuum and must be constantly informed and re-assessed by data, information, and the demands and challenges that police face. Given this new environment, we then examine what evidence does exist regarding police pursuits in Section 3 by reviewing the empirical research in this area. This review provides police managers not only with specific references to existing studies for their reference, but also a general understanding across these studies of what is currently known about the nature, characteristics, and outcomes of reported high-speed vehicular pursuits. This body of research also illustrates how concerns of safety, liability, and police professional management have been the primary force in motivating pursuit research, as opposed to new challenges and demands of proactivity. We then proceed in Section 4 with a content analysis of a sample of pursuit policies from 77 police agencies in the United States in 2007. Indeed, there have been surveys of pursuit policies conducted in the past, and we offer this analysis to present a recent update. To do this, we selected a group of police agencies who participated in the most recently published Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Survey (LEMAS) conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics using a stratified random sampling approach and requested current written pursuit policies from the heads of those agencies. We then examine and report upon key elements of these policies to highlight the trends of current pursuit practices. The database, its participants during this testing phase, and the pursuit data itself, are then discussed and analyzed in Section 5. Although the agencies which contributed to the database during this testing phase are not a representative sample of all police agencies in the United States (as participation in submitting pursuits to the IACP database was voluntary), the pursuit records collected offer a glimpse into pursuit trends and patterns, with information related to suspects, the police officers involved, the nature of the pursuits and their outcomes. Although it is clear that the IACP data have limitations, compared to other empirical analyses that we found, it is one of the larger samples of pursuit data collected and covers a comparatively large number of agencies across thirty states. Ultimately, the analysis of the IACP data is conducted to improve the use of the database as the project moves forward. Thus, in addition to analyzing the data set to unearth its limitations, we also compare characteristics of the participating agencies with recently collected information about U.S. law enforcement agencies more generally, to understand what types of police departments would be most likely to participate in such an endeavor and who the IACP should direct its focus to increase the use of the database. The 56 participating agencies also completed a small survey conducted by the IACP in 2005 about their experiences using the database, the results of which we present in Section 5. Section 6 then provides the lessons learned from the development and use of the database during this testing phase closing with conclusions and recommendations for both the IACP and also for police agencies. Details: Alexandria, VA: The IACP, 2008. 116p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 11, 2011 at: http://www.theiacp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=IlJDjYrusBc%3D&tabid=392 Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.theiacp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=IlJDjYrusBc%3D&tabid=392 Shelf Number: 121287 Keywords: Police DeploymentPolice Pursuit DrivingPolicing |
Author: Kappelman, Kristin Title: An Analysis of Vehicle Pursuits in the Milwaukee Police Department, 2002 to 2009 Summary: Law enforcement officers are often required to make decisions quickly in precarious situations, and these decisions must reflect an officer's obligation to protect and serve the community-at-large. Police pursuit driving is a prime example of this decision-making dilemma, as it presents the opportunity to apprehend a suspect, while also presenting the possibility of endangering the lives of the officers and general public. Law enforcement personnel must find a reasonable balance that weighs the potential of apprehending a suspect against the potential for personal injury and property damage. Past research has indicated that nationwide, approximately 40% of all pursuits resulted in an accident (Dunham, Alpert, Kenny, & Cromwell, 1998 and Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2009). Roughly 50% of all pursuit collisions occurred in the first 2 minutes of the pursuit and more than 70% of all collisions transpired before the sixth minute of the pursuit (Hill, 2002). Injuries happened in 20% of all pursuits (Dunham, et al., 1998), with third-party individuals not involved in the pursuit constituting 42% of people injured or killed in pursuits (Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2010). On average, 1 person dies every day in the United States as a result of a police pursuit (Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2010). Approximately 1% of all pursuits or 1 out of 100 high-speed pursuits resulted in a fatality (Dunham, et al., 1998 and Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2010), with 1 law enforcement officer dying every 11 weeks in a pursuit and approximately 1% of all line of duty deaths occurring in a vehicle pursuit (Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2010). Approximately 44% of pursuits resulted from a stop for a traffic violation, while 39% resulted from a felony (e.g., armed robbery, vehicular assault, stolen vehicle) (Alpert, 1997). Law enforcement personnel made the decision to terminate a pursuit in 4.7% of pursuits (Schultz, Hudak, & Alpert, 2009), while 75% of pursuits resulted in the capture of a suspect (Dunham et al., 1998). Police pursuit driving is a hazardous, but on occasion, necessary, public safety activity. This report is a review of all police pursuits performed by the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 20091. This eight-year review will serve as a baseline to determine the frequency and circumstances surrounding vehicle pursuits. This initial report does not address the impact of specific policies or procedures followed by MPD during the reporting period. This analysis will provide data to conduct future reviews of MPD policy, procedures, and training. Details: Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, 2010. 11p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 30, 2014 at: http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityFPC/Reports/Report_Vehicle_Pursuits.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityFPC/Reports/Report_Vehicle_Pursuits.pdf Shelf Number: 133838 Keywords: Police DiscretionPolice Pursuit DrivingPolice Pursuits (Milwaukee, WI)Vehicle Pursuits |