By DEB GRUVER

Staff writer

Peabody police officers could have used “stop sticks” when they joined a three-county chase in June that reached speeds up to 130 mph.

Chief Bruce Burke applied for $8,000 from the United States Deputy Sheriff’s Association. The organization donated four sets of sticks — used to deflate tires of a vehicle that won’t stop during a law enforcement chase.

Peabody police joined three-county chase June 8 when it was “about five miles old,” Burke said. The driver refused to pull over for a sheriff’s deputy who had clocked the vehicle doing 84 mph in a 55-mph zone.

Burke is grateful.

“We just don’t have the money for that kind of stuff,” he said.

The association also gave Peabody six belt-carried trauma packs. An officer recently responded to a woman who was badly bleeding and fortunately had compression gauze on hand, Burke said.

“He was able to stop the bleeding until EMS was at the scene,” he said.