Saturday, March 10, 2012

How do police cars get selected?

Most are Crown Victoria, but in Ontario I see Dodge Chargers and other ones. How does one police officer get to drive a Charger, and another a Victoria? Can a police officer use his own vehicle to get made into a car?How do police cars get selected?
good cars goes to the left line the weak cars go to the right line never to be seen againHow do police cars get selected?
Police officers cannot get their own personal vehicles made into police cars. It depends on the deal that a certain car maker gives the police dept. It can change each year. Many of our cars are Chevys now, but we just got a new contract with Ford to get new Crown Vics.How do police cars get selected?
Different police agencies across the U.S. and Canada have different commitee's that pick the cars. Most of the police agencies consider price and interior room as the major factors. Police cars need a roomy interior (dash area) that will put all the equiptment in easy reach of the driver. e.g. radios, MDT (computer), siren and lights. Unfortunely many police agencies do not consider safety as a high priority when choosing cars. The highway patrol cars are normally picked by speed and price. Many California police agencies order cars with high performance suspension, transmissions and engines. Arizona uses a lot of cars that they take from criminals, so they have many different types of polices cars and colors. Hard to spot also. lol



No, they cant use their own cars to be made into police cars. They have to be D.O.T. approved emergency vehicles.

I hope this helped.
We have all Crown Vics and one Charger in my district. The newer cars are assigned to beats, the beat officer gets that car. We have a number of older cars that are relief cars, if a beat car isn't available they get one of those. I have never seen a department where officers get to use their own cars but a large SO in New Mexico used to let officers choose their take-home car from a number of makes and models, and they received a monthly allocation to make the car payment. My department lets motor officers do something similar and they have Harley's, Honda's and BMW's.
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