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PA State Police Report Drop In Number of Police Pursuits, Fatalities In 2008

Published in Health Business Week, May 29th, 2009

The number of police pursuits in Pennsylvania and the number of people killed in those pursuits dropped last year, State Police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski announced.

Pawlowski said law enforcement agencies across Pennsylvania reported involvement in 1,809 vehicle pursuits in 2008, a drop of 6.3 percent from the 1,931 pursuits in 2007. The number of deaths resulting from those pursuits fell from 13 in 2007 to nine last year, he said.

The statistics are contained in the 2008 Pennsylvania Police Pursuit Report, which was compiled by state police and can be accessed through the Police Pursuit Reporting System link at...

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