Can't speak for anywhere else, but can speak for personal experience, here in Italy "take the license plate" or "get in the police car and follow her" would be our procedure. She has not pulled out a weapon, and law enforcement is not supposed to escalate anything, ever. (Exceptions might apply, poorly trained officers exists). Even if she pulled a gun, probably we'd just try to evacuate everyone in the area and call for reinforcements before thinking of pulling out our firearms.
On average we get 5 police deaths in a year out of about 300-350 thousands agents, so I guess it works well enough.
(and yes, I do realize that in US there's a lot of armed and trigger happy civilians, but that's just another issue to solve. If a civilian needs a gun for self protection , there's something really really wrong with society in my opinion)
Can't speak for anywhere else, but can speak for personal experience, here in Italy "take the license plate" or "get in the police car and follow her" would be our procedure. She has not pulled out a weapon, and law enforcement is not supposed to escalate anything, ever. (Exceptions might apply, poorly trained officers exists). Even if she pulled a gun, probably we'd just try to evacuate everyone in the area and call for reinforcements before thinking of pulling out our firearms.
On average we get 5 police deaths in a year out of about 300-350 thousands agents, so I guess it works well enough.
(and yes, I do realize that in US there's a lot of armed and trigger happy civilians, but that's just another issue to solve. If a civilian needs a gun for self protection , there's something really really wrong with society in my opinion)