NEW ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT - New Albany, Ohio

2.3.2 Escorts
The Police Department does not provide law enforcement escort services on a routine basis.
However, requests for both emergency and routine escorts may be approved by the on duty shift
supervisor on an individual case-by-case basis.
A. Legitimate requests for routine law enforcement escort services include, but are not
limited to, funeral motorcades, oversized vehicles, roadway construction/maintenance
vehicles, and vehicles transporting unusual or hazardous cargo.
If a request for an escort is made and time permits, the Chief of Police will review the
request and determine if the Police Department will be able to accommodate it.
Planning and consideration should be given to the proposed route, the time of day,
manpower needs, and the need of assistance from other City departments. If time
does not permit, then the on duty shift supervisor will review the request and make the
decision as to whether or not it should be approved.
If the Police Department is advised that a private escort service will be providing escort
services within the City for a company or organization, the Chief of Police, or his/her
designee, will contact the private escort service (time permitting) to check that the
service has a State of Ohio permit (for overweight/oversize, as applicable), will abide by
all applicable laws, and has planned an acceptable strategy for the escort.
B. It is the policy of the Police Department that escort services will not be provided to the
motoring public seeking medical attention at local emergency facilities/hospitals.
Should an officer come into contact with such an emergency, he/she should immediately
notify the Dispatch Center who will notify the appropriate Fire Medic. The officer
should provide first aid until emergency medical assistance arrives at his/her location.
2.3.3 Pursuits and Emergency Vehicle Operations and Procedures
A. Introduction
B. Pursuit
The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for use by all police officers of the
New Albany Police Department in the pursuit and apprehension of fleeing violators.
While the goal of the Police Department is to protect life and property, it is often times
necessary for police officers to respond to a situation that may appear to conflict with
this goal. That conflict never seems more apparent than when the police officer engages
in a vehicle pursuit where the violator refuses to voluntarily stop his/her vehicle after
receiving an order by an officer in a marked cruiser.
Knowing the importance of training and liability that is held for failure to train, the New
Albany Police Department will not allow any of the below referenced techniques to be
performed by any officers who have not been formally trained or certified (i.e.: OPOTA) in
the technique deployed. New Albany Police officers that have received formal training are
expected to make educated decision in the use of these techniques.
A pursuit is an event resulting in actions by one or more police officers in attempts to
apprehend the driver and/or other occupants of a motor vehicle who are willfully
attempting to flee or elude a law enforcement officer by using high speed driving and
other evasive tactics such as making sudden or unexpected turns, driving off the
highway, or maintaining a legal speed but willfully failing to yield to an officer’s signal
to stop. An incident will be classified, defined, and reported as a pursuit if sufficient
elements are present to support a charge of fleeing and eluding a law enforcement
officer, whether or not an apprehension is made (e.g. the pursuit is ordered or
voluntarily terminated by the officer or the suspect successfully eludes the pursuing
officers).
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