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Article: Trooper pursuit policy revised - State Police rules to focus on safety
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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Four months after a high-speed pursuit ended with a suspect
crashing into a taxi and killing two people in Somerville, State
Police officials quietly overhauled the agency's chase policy,
placing greater emphasis on assessing the potential risk to the
public.
Spokesmen for the State Police and the Executive Office of Public
Safety said the change to the 2001 policy, which went into effect
Sept. 7, was set in motion well before the crash in Somerville on
May 27.
Still, had the new guidelines been in place at the time, the
ultimately fatal pursuit probably would have been called off
earlier.
Under the pursuit guidelines, which grew from four to six pages,
troopers are instructed: "A motor ...