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January 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The smashed car on the Stud Rd overpass in Dandenong. Picture: Jake Nowakowski
Source: Herald Sun
CRITICS of police car chases are demanding a review of the force’s policy after a fourth fatal pursuit in six months.
A young man who was a passenger in what police say was a speeding and stolen car died early yesterday after the car mounted a kerb and crashed into a guard rail in Dandenong.
Police who received reports of a red Mitsubishi sedan being driven erratically tried to stop the car in Stud Rd about 3.50am.
Investigators believe the driver lost control after trying to overtake a truck.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Kevin Casey said two officers in a divisional van had given chase for 20 seconds. He believed the car, stolen from the area in recent days, was doing more than the 80km/h limit.
The male passenger died at the scene. The male driver, 23, went to hospital with minor injuries.
Dianne McCready, who was critically injured in a 2008 police chase, said there needed to be more consideration of innocent victims, and called for a review.
“Obviously if the police can’t think of ways, they need fresh minds to think of ideas,” Ms McCready said.
Police said there were 716 police chases last year, up from more than 600 in 2010.
RMIT University adjunct professor Peter Norden said the force had to review an “irrational” policy of pursuits that put innocent lives at risk. “The police car is now the most dangerous weapon in the police arsenal,” he said.
Former Victoria Police deputy commissioner Bob Falconer said that fleeing police should be made a serious criminal offence, and there was no significant existing deterrent.
Last month, Deputy Commissioner for Road Policing Kieran Walshe said more drivers were exploiting a requirement for police to abandon some high-speed pursuits.
Policy requires officers to radio details of a chase to a pursuit controller, and pull out if the chase poses a risk to the public.
Police Association assistant secretary Bruce McKenzie said the rules were the best they could be, given the problematic nature of pursuits.
“If police were not to engage in pursuits at all that, in our view, is a more dangerous situation,” Insp McKenzie said.
Acting Premier Peter Ryan supported the policy and rejected calls for a review.
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