are police allowed to chase motorcycles?

[WULFSTAN]

what i mean is say am going down the road.An they try an pull me an i think to myself i cart be assed pulling over today will they come after you or just think fuck it ?
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[dodgydog]

In West Yorkshire they wont chase anyone who isn't wearing a helmet.
So ditch the lid and off you go.
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[Clanger]

Yes they are allowed to chase you.

And they might if you've been a very naughty boy.
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[Tiff]

In Tayside they have a no chase policy with or without helmets.
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[carvell]

Bear in mind though that it doesn't stop them rocking up at your front door 10 minutes later... Assuming it's not stolen, obviously.

But then if they reckon it's stolen you'll probably have to try to evade a helicopter too, which I guess is a bit harder.
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[blurredman]

Take your mirrors off and claim you couldn't hear them due to the helmet. Which is their fault for making it law.
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[Clanger]

[Fowlersrs]

Interesting, so I wonder what theyre response is to a bike that is stolen and the criminal isnt wearing a helmet, I guess a chopper is instantly called in to monitor the situation then..

[pepperami]

I`ll bet you a pound-to-a-pinch-of-poo that if you try them out, they WILL chase you and if no one is looking I`ll bet they will also knock you off and tell everybody you crashed on your own!.

I`ll bet that this will happen regardless of what county you live in or what they put out in public statments about policy.

Dont let them chase you and then the only people being chased will be scumbag bike thieves who deserve to get killed
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[Nick_Giles]

[The Artist]

Yes.

If it is deemed too dangerous to continue they will back off, not abandon chasing you. If they have a chopper available, they will let that follow you.

[Nick_Giles]

[Fowlersrs]

[Raffles]

[Nick_Giles]

[Nick_Giles]

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They also have a totally different view of acceptable 'procedure' abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJPN_H9LcQ


Nick.

P.S. BCF members gain extra brownie points in they can name the bike make/model. And was it 'Cat C or Cat D' ???


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[groovylee]

awesome
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[rac3r]

[Raffles]

[robbieguy2003]

I know in October 2009 Sussex Police certainly chased me. They also had the BBC Traffic Cops crew on board, it never got shown which was a bit of a pisser because it was quite fun.

Basically I had headphones on, was riding quickly went through some lights at a reasonable speed (on green), they were at the red lights in an unmarked golf.

I proceeded to go through a 30, again at a fair pace, I then got to a 40mph Dual Carriageway and proceeded to go quite quickly (over double). It was only when braking for the speed camera I spotted blue lights behind...

Not my brightest moment, as this must have been a couple of miles, they had blues and twos, sirens and a horn going off at me
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[ninja_butler]

[T.C]

You have to differentiate between what is considered a "Follow" and a "Pursuit"

Bikes can be followed and stopped, the cop will make one attempt to stop and if the rider fails to comply and it becomes a fail to stop then the situation changes from a follow to a pursuit.

Whether the cop continues to to follow the bike depends on a number of factors

The nature of the offenders riding

Time of day

Volume of traffic

Weather conditions

The potential threat or danger to other road users

The level of protective equipment being worn by the rider

Has PNC or ANPR flagged up any potential issues

National and individual force policy

What instructions are given by the Force control room

The availability of the Parrafin Budgie

Unfortunately much of the reluctance to pursue riders comes down to the Human Rights campaigners who argued that even though the little scrotes may have committed a serious crime, be drunk, stolen the bike or whatever, their human rights dictated that they were entitled to a level of protection

European Court of Human Rights agreed and so policies were introduced.
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[WULFSTAN]

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