The patient should not need to be checked into another hospital in order for the police to assist the patient and her family, if only because the reason they cannot check into another hospital is that the patient is being illegally detained. To the contrary, the police should be the ones telling the hospital that it's illegal for them to detain the patient, and then assisting the patient in leaving without interference by the hospital staff.

The police chased the victim instead of the perpetrator believing the hospital despite the hospital's obvious lies. Yes, it's amazing they did finally stop but giving them credit for chasing a sick girl to another state is preposterous.

> The police chased the victim instead of the perpetrator believing the hospital despite the hospital's obvious lies.

They were told it was a medical emergency, and they had no information to contradict that. (Yes, obviously the parents said it wasn't, but the parents aren't trained medical professionals). Once they got conflicting information, they could back out of the matter—and did so.

Credit, really? For pursuing the only sane course of action after all others have been played out?

Buy US policing standards I'd call that a resounding success story

This. If they had had the bad luck of being pulled over on their way to SD it could have easily escalated into an OJ style chase and that could end well or it could have ended very badly.