Harsher penalties are needed to deter drivers from leading police on a chase, the report delivered to the territory's chief police officer Rudi Lammers last year found.

The review, published online for the first time on Wednesday, said repeat offenders should be disqualified from driving for five years and even face 12 months in jail.

It recommended beefing up fines for drivers who failed to stop for police to $2100 for first-time offenders or $2800 for repeat offenders.

It also advocated for increased police powers to seize and impound cars at the driver's cost and immediately suspend drivers involved in pursuits for at least three months.

"The level of risk posed to the community for a driver fleeing from police is comparable to a high-range PCA offence," the review reads.

"The recommendations seek to impose penalties on fleeing drivers similar in nature to the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977 offence for Level 4 Prescribed Concentration of Alcohol (PCA)."

The report concluded while ACT Policing had an adequate governance framework for conducting pursuits, the legislation was deficient in holding people to account and preventing them from reoffending.

It referred to an examination of prosecutions related to pursuits between January 2013 and April 2014, where only two in five pursuits resulted in a prosecution.

Its release came almost 12 months after a driver who was awaiting sentence for almost running down a police officer when he fled a traffic stop died in another high-speed pursuit at Kambah.

Tim Smith-Brown, 24, was driving an unregistered car unlicensed, on bail, and fleeing police when he died in the smash on Drakeford Drive.

Details of the pursuit that preceded his death were not included in this review but it did cite five other incidents in the ACT where a police pursuit led to a fatality.

However, the author was keen to point out: "Police do not initiate pursuits. Drivers who flee from police do."