National Pursuit Awareness Act of 1992

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Pursuit Awareness Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to make grants to States under the drug control and system improvement grant program for programs that increase awareness and improve public safety through implementation of policies and training procedures to regulate the use of vehicular pursuit by law enforcement officers (officers) of criminal suspects. Reduces BJA formula grants by 25 percent (for redistribution to other participating States) to any State that by the first day of each fiscal year after FY 1995: (1) does not have in effect a law which prohibits the driver of a motor vehicle from increasing speed or taking other evasive action if an officer signals the driver to stop and which provides a minimum penalty of three months imprisonment and seizure of the violator's vehicle for such a violation; and (2) does not require each State agency employing officers who may conduct a motor vehicle pursuit in the course of employment to have in effect a policy which describes the manner and circumstances in which such a pursuit should be conducted and terminat…