The scene is a familiar one. A vehicle is being pursued by police cars, lights flashing and sirens wailing. The get away car speeds past parked cars and through city streets in an attempt to flee. It's an exciting show but how accurate is it? Turns out, police have strict rules when it comes to so called high speed chases. 

"Basically we have to take public interest and safety into consideration," explained Cst. Daniel Gaignard of the Estevan RCMP. "More often than not, the offence occurring is not serious enough where it warrants chasing a car."

He adds that the reaction to being chased can often lead to dangerous and potentially deadly reactions from the driver. 

"What tends to happen when we do attempt to chase a car that is evading someone, is they take greater and further evasive actions to avoid us. That's putting the public at more risk, because they tend to speed up more, act more erratically, drive crazy if you will, to get away from us."

"A lot of the instances, out of public safety, and concern for safety, it is simply easier to shut it down and hopefully we catch them later. Especially if we were to obtain a licence place or anything of that nature. We have some information to go on therefore it's not worth the risk to the public to continue to pursue the vehicle at high speed."

In the recent case that occurred Tuesday, police attempted to stop a truck travelling at a high rate of speed. When the driver of the truck refused to pull over, a short chase occurred. However, it was quickly called off when the vehicles approached city limits and then continued into a residential area. 

"It lends a risk to all other motorists on the road, all pedestrians, the driver of the vehicle getting away, a risk to us. It's just not worth it."

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