‘Hot Pursuit’: Law Enforcement Practice and the Public Interest

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Collins, above, ref 7, p.68. The definitions of ‘death in police custody’ were determined at the Australasian Police Ministers' Council, 1994. There are two categories of death in police custody. Category 1 involves a) a death in an institutional setting (eg police station) and b) deaths resulting from ‘close contact’ operations (eg raids). Category 2 involves death resulting from a police operation where the police did not have close contact. Police pursuits come under Category 2, see Collins Lisa (2002), above, ref 7, p.11.

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I want to acknowledge that these scenarios (which were adapted) were provided by Geoff Alpert as we develop collaborative comparative research on this topic.

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