Is a police officer not engaged in an emergency operation when he looks down for purposes of locating a vehicle located in front of his vehicle?

Other Courts have similarly declined to invoke the emergency doctrine. For example, in Kabir v. County of Monroe, 16 NY3d 217 (2011), a police officer looked down for purposes of locating where he was proceeding to respond to a burglary call and rear ended a vehicle located in front of his vehicle. Police were double-parked in an unmarked police vehicle in order to observe two suspects in Quintero v. City of New York, 113 AD3d 414, 978 NYS2d 155 (1st Dept 2014), when they were struck from behind by the codefendants' minivan. Rusho v. State of New York, 76 AD3d 783, 906 NYS2d 836 (4th Dept 2010) held that a parole officer was not engaged in an emergency operation when he was performing an investigatory function, attempting to turn his vehicle around to determine if a motorist was a parole absconder.