Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Public Safety
Title R728 - Peace Officer Standards and Training
Rule R728-503 - Utah Minimum Standards for All Emergency Pursuit Policies to be Adopted by Public Agencies that Operate Authorized Emergency Pursuit Vehicles
Section R728-503-2 - Definitions
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 728-503-2
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Terms in this rule are defined in Section 41-6a-102.
(2) In addition:
(a) "agency emergency pursuit policy" means
the written principles by which a Utah individual public agency that operates
authorized emergency pursuit vehicles is guided in the management of its
affairs concerning whether to, and how to, engage and disengage in the pursuit
of a suspect by vehicle.
(b)
"authorized emergency pursuit vehicle" means law enforcement vehicle, either
marked or unmarked, properly equipped with audible sirens and visual lights
owned and operated by a public agency.
(c) "back-up unit" means each authorized
emergency pursuit vehicle assisting the primary unit.
(d) "balance test" means that a law
enforcement officer shall act as a reasonably prudent emergency vehicle
operator in like circumstances while making an ongoing decision process to
analyze the risk of initiating, continuing, and terminating pursuit given the
following considerations:
(i) the need to
apprehend a fugitive who presents a danger to others because the serious and
violent nature of the crime for which the fugitive is sought or because the
fugitive's driving presents a threat to the public safety that may outweigh the
risks that a pursuit poses to others; and
(ii) the need to avoid pursuit if the threat
of public or officer safety is greater than the need for immediately
apprehending the suspect.
(e) "boxing-in" means a technique designed to
stop a violator's vehicle by surrounding it with authorized emergency pursuit
vehicles and then slowing all vehicles to a stop.
(f) "channelization" means a technique where
objects are placed in the anticipated or actual path of a pursued vehicle which
tend to alter the vehicle's intended direction of travel.
(g) "intervention techniques" means specific
operational tactics including immobilization, channelization, ramming,
boxing-in, roadblock procedures, tire deflation devices (spike strips, etc.)
which are intended to disable fleeing vehicles or otherwise prevent further
flight or escape.
(h) "paralleling"
means participating in the pursuit by proceeding in the same direction and
maintaining approximately the same speed while traveling on an alternate street
or highway that parallels the pursuit route.
(i) "primary unit" means the authorized
emergency pursuit vehicle that initiates a pursuit or assumes control of the
pursuit as the lead vehicle or the first authorized emergency pursuit vehicle
immediately behind the fleeing suspect.
(j) "supervisor" means a law enforcement
officer who, by virtue of rank or assignment, is responsible for the direction
or supervision of the activities of other law enforcement officers.
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