Factors that can assist an officer while driving at a high rate of speed include:
1. Looking Well Ahead
2. Keeping vehicle centered within lane,
3. Awareness of adverse weather or road conditions .
T/F: If you fail to turn on lights and sirens during a pursuit and damage or injury
occurs as a result the vehicle or pedestrian you hit will be held liable?
False: You as the officer will be held LIABLE
Fatigue poses a threat to safe operation of your vehicle because it may result in
delayed reaction times
If you fail to drive with due regard for safety of others, if the agency has not
adopted a written pursuit policy or if in the act of driving you commit a negligent
or wrongful act: who will be held liable?
You or the agency will be held liable
According to STATE, not city policy, officers in an authorized emergency vehicle
may:
disregard regulations dictating proper direction of travel
, ________________ ________________: an agency requires a showing that an
agency established or acquiesced to a policy, custom or or practice that resulted
in a violation of the plaintiff's civil rights
Vicarious Liability
As the speed of a vehicle increases the effects of the siren:
decrease
(you out run your siren)
High density urban and business structures will cause:
Siren or Sound Deflection
When driving through a close combination turn, think:
Counter Clockwise turn 4 to dog leg, line of travel should be: Outside-Inside-Inside
When driving with lights and sirens officers should drive with what kind of
mindset?
That they have no emergency equipment on.
(in regards to how other traffic will respond to your presence)
Define Due Regard
(driving)
Driving in a manner which does not endanger life or property
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