Cops initiating a Blue Light run before chasing a potential suspect?

[Josh]

(2012-04-25 06:21)Chuck Wrote:  

(2012-04-24 21:44)Josh Wrote:  A blue light run (on TC) is more of a practise run for blue light driving, without !siren.

Woh woh wait a minute: Is there a secret guild which may ignore clearly defined rules or does "blue light run" mean "driving like a civilian car" these days? 0o

What? Blue Light Runs, by this I mean VCU 'driver training' run, not just driving with lights and sirens, have been discussed several times over the last couple of years and agreed upon.

Quote:Also, that reminds me strongly to this thread ( members area, just a month old), which was just abandoned by everyone. http://forum.city-driving.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=2464

The general outcome was the same as it's ever been - To catch up with a suspect, you may use strobes and audio siren, but no visual siren.

As for the time limit of doing this, it's down to common sense as I've said, you can't set what the maximum amount of time will be as it differs with every situation. Obviously 5 minutes is way too much for pretty much 99% of cases, but 30 seconds (for example) may be fine for one suspect, but not long enough for another.