What does PIT stand for?

Pursuit Intervention Technique (police high-speed pursuit tactic)

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

City News Service 2 gang suspects arrested in chase NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Two gang members in an older model sport utility vehicle were taken into custody late Wednesday when a police officer used a pursuit intervention technique to end the chase, police said.

BRIEFLY

Two PIT, or pursuit intervention technique, maneuvers - in which a CHP car nudges the rear of a moving vehicle to spin it to a stop - resulted in 360-degree spins, but still the van kept going.

WILD RIDE BUNGLED KIDNAP ATTEMP AT LAKE SHERWOOD SPURS PURSUIT, ...

The pursuit was ended after a CHP patrol car nudged the sport utility vehicle, rented from Ugly Duckling Rental Car in Santa Clarita, sending it spinning up onto the curb in what the CHP calls a pursuit intervention technique.

BUMP FROM CHP ENDS HIGH-SPEED PURSUIT