MEMPHIS, Tenn. – With the Memphis Safe Task Force providing hundreds of federal and local officers to help the Memphis Police Department, FOX13 is digging deeper into how chase policies vary depending on the agency.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol’s (THP) chase policy is much different than police departments.
Tennessee law allows for law enforcement officers across the state to pursue whomever they want, and that’s what state troopers follow. But MPD’s police said officers can only pursue violent offenders with approval from a supervisor…