Police Vehicles

Saw this on twitter the other day, and was wondering what people reckon. (Mods, know it's a news story, but it seemed to fit better here- feel free to move as appropriate). Not so bothered about where they're made, more interested in whether they're fit for purpose. Only ones we use are the Vivaro vans, which are pretty decent tbf- the 15 plate one that my station got recently feels more purpose built rather than having EWE and radio just bolted into the cab. SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11804048/Ministers-under-fire-for-allowing-half-of-Britains-police-forces-to-order-3000-foreign-made-vehicles.html Ministers under fire fo…

Can't pick up the link, London Evening Standard 1st Feb reporting on Met to get new range of alternate fuel vehicle - cars and motor cycles, including hydrogen fuel cell . The quote includes that they stopped buying diesels in 2015. Certainly a challenging future for policing fleets

I was looking at the price comparison for police kit online and noticed that North Wales police purchase cars that have a containment cell in the back of them, after loads of digging i managed to find a partial picture showing a divider between the front and the back of the car, akin to US cop cars. Has anyone used a car like this or have any experience regarding them as I have never come across them before.

Should have some better pictures of this later on, but this is from a friend of mine who is currently with Cheshire Police at Car Fest North. I want one!

Hey Guys, In terms of hatchbacks, in the civvy world, it's always been 'Golf v Focus v Astra'. However, I've never seen a Golf out as a panda car. The Focus and the Astra have always been the 'staple police car' of choice it would appear. So, why has the Golf never made it as a general policing vehicle? Has it every made it onto the streets in any force? and if so why did it never overcome the mighty Focus or Vectra? I've seen a couple of demonstrator Golfs on the internet, but never any fully operations ones and of course German cars have made their mark on more specialist units like traffic and their 330d Beamers for instance. ON99

Apologies bit late in posting this, but great family day out tomorrow in SURREY. Just a quick heads up all that the Annual Brooklands Emergency Services day, Weybridge, SURREY will be 2nd May this year. It's the Bank Holiday Monday.The day comprises of lots of vehicles from the emergency services, both past and present. For an idea of what the day is like check out this video from previous event: http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?/events/details/emergency-services-day4/ Hope to see you all there (in a civi capacity this year)

So came across this today, and totally see myself getting one. Fully electric and well, just too cool! I was wondering if there would a practical place for it in the service as a fast response vehicle, the specs are quite impressive which are worth checking out below. So a little bit from Wikipedia on it: I reckon there is a lot of potential for this vehicle across both the police service and ambulance service, what do you guys reckon? Potential or just a gimmick?

The ACPO CAST Competition winning car - the 'Polce Car of the Future' See the above link for pictures For a full brochure showing all the features, including stuff like facial recognition from the car cameras, see here; http://content.yudu.com/A23b3f/Lmobcastssup13/