LEO GUIDE - Pursuits [UNOFFICIAL] [WIP]

[Padres_Rosso]

GUIDE
| Pursuit Behaviour |
San Andreas Police Department
To protect and serve

                          INTRODUCTION --

                          To the Officers of the San Andreas Police Department.

                          My name is Padres Rosso. I’m a probationary SAPD Officer and I am on my way to advance to Senior Officer once again. I’ve been serving for the Argonath RPG Police Department for two and a half years now and just recently returned from my absence.

                          My main goal in this guide is to share my experience with other police officers to increase teamwork and discipline in pursuits and finally change the way they are handled so please take your time and read it through carefully!


                          Recognizing the mistake

                          Pursuits play a big role in our duties, we all encounter a lot of them daily and I doubt on anyone’s word who says that all police officers handle pursuits according to the protocol and as safe as possible. At times I saw officers driving more recklessy than the suspect just to take front in a vehicular pursuit which is definitelly NOT a way to represent our department. We all work as a team - maybe the one may not like the other, but as long as you and me wear that badge we’ll be teammates, no matter what.

                          Being a Police Officer is not how some people may imagine it to be like. Why I am saying this is actually simple. Currently there are many police officers that care about nothing but the money which is one of the main reasons why pursuits are such clusterf**ks. Everyone just wants to be the lead unit to be the closest to fire.

                          Being a cop is, from my point of view, not a job to gain much money. Working together and planning tactics to arrest suspects and serve for the community is what makes our job stand out.

Fixing the Mistake                           Right a few days after my return I launched a theoretical training that covers exactly this topic. Just gonna mention it before I start off - I am not showing you super secret tactics or stuff like that, it’s basically just common sense formed as a tactic. Pursuit Formation / Pursuit Line In a pursuit there are often three or more police units involved. By the increasing number of pursueing units it always requires organization and some discipline which is lacking alot in our department. <- Here on the left you can see how abouts pursuits can look like when it comes to one suspect and multiple units pursueing. At first you would most likely see the unorganized formation, aswell as the careless maneuvers the units perform. Taking R1 as example - the unit is endangering the whole pursuit line. The road is, in this scenario, way too small to risk a PIT. The unit could fail and break up the complete pursuit line. Next R2, as you can see the unit is active intercepting without taking care about cruisers crashing into it possibly. At last the 4 units in the back. They are all mixed up on both lanes and are very close to each other. If just one of the two infront needs to push the brakes then the whole pursuit line breaks up again. Now here is how it should look like. The pursuit formation, I also call it “Snake”, consists out of a LEAD unit and SECONDARY units. The LEAD unit is obviously the unit that is directly behind the suspect. That unit takes over radio updating(unless unable to), PITs and Drive-Bys. Under no circumstances should secondary units take over Drive By from behind, since friendly fire can be the result. Taking the same scenario you can see that all secondary units have a little bit more distance and are mainly aligned to the right side. This is how it should be - all secondary units should stick to the correct lane of travel unless absolute neccessary. That is being done to maintain a organized pursuit line and that to prevent mainly car accidents and total clusterf*cks. You can also see the intercepting unit that is waiting until the pursuit line has finished. That is also a point you should all memorize. Do NEVER, under no circumstances, shove yourself into an on-going pursuit line, unless there is definitelly enough space. The pursuit line shall also never split up and always follow like a snake. The LEAD unit should also not be overtaken unless you were instructed to by the LEAD unit or you have reasonable grounds to do so(Passenger to update/Driveby, Supervisory Unit, Highspeed unit). Secondary units shall never overtake each other aswell, unless you have reasonable grounds to do so (See above) or the unit infront of you is slowing down so you can pass safely. When spinned out A thing that I saw much is officers crashing into other cruisers, civilians, poles, buildings and then keeping on driving instead of letting the pursuit line go on. Keep always in mind to stop when you spinned out so other officers can dodge you appropiatily. Stopping a suspect’s vehicle It might seem like a easy thing, so why elaborate on this? The reason of that is because some officers appear not to know how to do it effectively. Many officers often tend to simply ram into suspects, with no regards to speed or anything. The most common problem is going “Rambo” on the vehicle in question, as in, speeding infront and then performing an handbreak turn just to cut the road. In this way the officer risks damaging his vehicle, or even losing it which should never be done just to stop the suspect’s vehicle. Here you can see that most common mistake. The suspect’s vehicle, with no regards of speeding, is driving slow, which gives unit the possibilty to perform this action. It might work, or it might not work. He may miss, or drive too close to the suspect’s vehicle and risk losing his own as he is attempting to block the road with his entire vehicle. Quite reckless maneuver with less effectivity. This image represents how a suspect should be stopped. The main goal is to speed up to the front of the suspect’s vehicle, and turning your vehicle slightly in an angle to the suspect. By doing so it will allow you to quickly drive infront of him, causing the so called “Lag-PIT”. If the PIT suceeded there is a short period of time before the suspect will react on the PIT and most likely keep driving. That period of time should be used to box the vehicle in question with your and other units’ cruisers in. There should be atleast one more unit behind the suspect vehicle to provide boxing in from the back. Take note, before performing such a tactic, look at the ping of the driver of the pursued vehicle. The higher the ping the more you need to drive further ahead to suceed in PITing the suspect.                           Closing Statement --                           Thank you for taking your time, reading my more or less little guide. I hope you learned something from it and use it in the field!                           Please also give me a brief reply whether it helped and if there is anything to improve, thanks!                           Credits - Padres Rosso and Tim “Hill” Kolta (Special Thanks go to him by supporting me with everything, you were a great helper!) © Copyright 2014 by Padres Rosso. All rights reserved. No part of content within this topic, be it text or image, may be reproduced or transmitted without prior written permission.

[Leon Arallian]

Nice work man.

[Spike]

Thats good for people who don't know LAG PIT Technic.
Good Work.

[Ryan Harrison]

Good work, Padres! 

[Diveron Rosso]

Good work, Padres! 

[PulseEffect]

A+ for excellent content and advice. Keep it up.