Sure, in the pragmatic sense I agree. If I was going to put myself in this type of situation, and the agency authorizing the test did not want to bring the agency that would be responding into the fold, I'd be contemplating things like having an employee or even some state official be physically present at the police station / dispatch when I was actually doing the pentest.

But the commenter I was responding to seemed to be leaning on the territory of what ought to be, in which case it's good to not normalize those societal problems.