Editing Car chase (section)

=== Germany ===
In Germany, police will chase suspects unless, for example, the fugitive is passing through a densely populated city center. To reduce the risk to uninvolved road users, the chase may be stopped then and the police will attempt to identify and apprehend the perpetrator via other means.

Regulations for dealing with pursuits may be standardized state by state, but in principle, proportionality and the prevention of danger to life and limb take precedence over the interest of repression of crime. German police do not record the number of chases in any official police statistics, so there is little publicly known data on actual chases. However, in 2022 alone, there were 1,164 registered chases in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-19 |title=Fast 1.200 Verfolgungsjagden der NRW-Polizei im vergangenen Jahr |trans-title=Almost 1,200 chases by the NRW police last year |url=https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/verfolgungsjagden-nrw-polizei-100.html |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=www1.wdr.de |language=de}}</ref> there were 167 recorded in [[Hamburg]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 11, 2020 |title=Verfolgungsjaden in Hamburg |trans-title=Police Pursuits in Hamburg |url=https://www.buergerschaft-hh.de/parldok/dokument/73675/verfolgungsjagden_in_hamburg.pdf |access-date=March 24, 2025 |website=Bürgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg}}</ref> Chases are frequently reported in the media.