If the police signal someone to stop, they should, says a reader. Photo / File
In light of several police car chases that have resulted in crashes and deaths I see merit that in future, chases will be abandoned or not be made at all. However, I am absolutely amazed that at the same time changing the penalty for not obeying a police order to
stop seems to have been totally overlooked, which makes an almost complete nonsense of the policy change.
I completely fail to understand the logic of this as, put very simply, if the police call upon a driver to stop then this should be obeyed and failure to do so carry a severe penalty, including loss of licence for a considerable period.
In most cases the registration of the offending vehicle has been recorded, so tracing this should not be difficult. It seems the original change in policy has not been properly reviewed, which definitely is not good enough and we should expect much better from those responsible.
Phil Hickling
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