This briefing document is designed to provide a background to changes in police operations that have led to the current status quo regarding training and operational activity principally around driving and its associated risks.
The past 10 years has seen massive changes to the management of police fleets. These changes include:
In addition to these changes the landscape regarding how these vehicles operate has also radically changed in line with how criminals and terrorists have used vehicles to achieve their goals. Police fleets have had to revise what are seen as ‘acceptable’ procedures to deal with the vast rise in street vehicle robberies.
Historically the use of pursuit tactics let alone tactical contact to deal with motorcycle and moped criminality was unacceptable. This approach by law enforcement agencies would appear to have been capitalised upon by criminals of all ages resulting in inner cities being plagued by moped robberies, ride by shootings and other property based criminality.
With the embedding of the College of Policing into the governance landscape for policing we have seen a coming together of best practice and delivery of national ‘Approved Professional Practice’ for almost all police related activity including driving.
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