Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
VEHICLE POLICIES – DEADLY FORCE - VEHICLE
NO: E-300
APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
August 1, 1990
REVIEWED:
9/22/2017
REVISED:
6/29/2007
UPDATED:
11/12/2007
E-300-1
POLICY
An automobile used to force a vehicle off of the roadway, or for the barricading of a roadway, is
considered deadly force. These methods of stopping a vehicle shall not be used in misdemeanor
cases and only as a last resort should they be considered in the most serious types of felonies.
Such action should be used only after all other means have failed and only if the violator’s
actions are imminently endangering the life of innocent persons or when other types of deadly
force are justified. The supervisor on duty or Sheriff’s Office Watch Commander should, when
possible, make the decision on the use of a barricade. In making the decision to use deadly
force, officers will make themselves familiar w