Police Cars

[STAPrap]

Does anyone know what Police Departments have the most amount of cars?Also are there many departments using the Impala or Intrepid?Someone told me at work the other day that NYNY has around 30,000 or so officers.This means a lot of cars too.
It's so neat to see all the different coloured cars go by during production.What colour configuration is in your town?We typically have solid white,but on occasion you'll see a couple of sleeper black vic's with no light bars on top and tinted windows.We have a few Taurus's too.Also the Ontario Provincial Police use a ton of Impala's.More than the Vic Interceptor.
I have heard that officers prefer the Vic at this point in time.
Anyhow,happy Easter gentlemen!!!

DD

[MAD-3R]

My county uses Vics for patrol, Imaplas for Detectivs and trafic inforcment and Jeep Cherokees for accedintr investigaton. State Troopers use Vics and Impalas. Plus a couple of Supercharged Vics.

There were presistant romors that a state trooper on I-81 around Wenchester that ran a Buick Grand National that "you will not out run" during the late 80's and 90's. Not sure how true they were, but it sounded good.


Fairfax county has mostly Vics, with a mix for agressive driving intradiction.

[SouLRioT]

ok, for my department: road uses intercepters-white in color, exo's use many differnt color CVs, we have about 8 aggressive driver d/s that use unmarked implalas, detectives use many types of cars, malibus, intrepids, and tauruses. We also have every brand SUV for duties for veh homicide to EOD. In addition to those we have the special units that have DARE cars like a PT cruiser cameros, and are ERT has an armored veh and a resuce truck. The department has over 3,000 employee.

[TAF]

In the Atlanta area...we have these...

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7337&highlight=doraville

[MAD-3R]

ERT has an armored

Ohhh an RV!!

[woaface]

Greenville County here, has been switching over to a good number of Impalas...how unfortunate. Everything from full duty to undercover1.

Vic and Impala are both alike in color, Dark blue with really bright yellow reflective stuff, a large bar going down the length of the car with the Greenville County PD symbol on the drivers door.

The Impala's have smaller light racks than the vics and they are much harder to spot from a distance...the Crown Victoria was always easy to catch if it's coming towards you.

[Bluerauder]

My county uses Vics for patrol, Imaplas for Detectivs and trafic inforcment and Jeep Cherokees for accedintr investigaton. State Troopers use Vics and Impalas. Plus a couple of Supercharged Vics.

There were presistant romors that a state trooper on I-81 around Wenchester that ran a Buick Grand National that "you will not out run" during the late 80's and 90's. Not sure how true they were, but it sounded good.


Fairfax county has mostly Vics, with a mix for agressive driving intradiction.

Prince William County uses Crown Vics almost exclusively. However, they use two unmarked Camaros, an unmarked Cadillac Escalade (confiscated drug vehicle) and an unmarked brown Nissan Altima (now, that is deep undercover).

I would guess that STAPraps original question would be ansered easily with "the size of the city kinda dictates the size of the force -- and by extension the number of cars needed. Our ratio here is about 1.3 officers per 1,000 people for the county. Large cities might get away with a little less based on efficiencies of scale.

So, he ought to be seeing alot of cars for NYPD, LAPD, Chicago Metro, San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Metro DC and lots of other big cities.

[2003 MIB]

Addison, TX= Dodge Durangos (old body style) patrol patrol and few slick tops for traffic enforcement. BMW motorcycles and a few CVs.
Dallas, TX= CVs and new Impalas
Grand Prarie, TX= CVs and Camaros
Arlington, TX= CVs, Camaros, Expeditions, F150s
Fort Worth, TX= CVs, Expeditions, F150s, a few Impalas and Tahoes
Burleson, TX= CVs and Expeditions
Joshua, TX= CVs (three of them)
Texas DPS= You name it...Any combo platter of the above.
That's my daily drive.

[N40GL]

Does anyone know what Police Departments have the most amount of cars? Also are there many departments using the Impala or Intrepid? *snip!*

Check out:

http://anzwers.org/free/policecars/main.html

and

http://www.evooa.org/

and

http://www.copcar.com/

And (another point of view):

http://www.javelinamx.com/carstars/

[SouLRioT]

Greenville County here, has been switching over to a good number of Impalas...how unfortunate. Everything from full duty to undercover1.

Vic and Impala are both alike in color, Dark blue with really bright yellow reflective stuff, a large bar going down the length of the car with the Greenville County PD symbol on the drivers door.

The Impala's have smaller light racks than the vics and they are much harder to spot from a distance...the Crown Victoria was always easy to catch if it's coming towards you.

Do I need to have my friend thats works there go looking for you???? ;)

[dwasson]

City of Detroit switched to white CVPIs lately. The PD announced that the black cars were, "too intimidating". Isn't that a good thing?

The Michigan State Police still uses Vics in their copyrighted blue. Is there another police force that has a copyrighted color?

[ParkRanger]

Long Beach PD has Crown Vic black and white's. Sgt.s drive black & white Explorers (for tasers, m16, etc)

LB Park Rangers (we police all parks and rec areas) also use Crown Vics and 4 wheel Explorers - white with green stripe; city logo on doors and light bars.

City is currently in financial crunch and making radical changes to budget. Talking about getting rid if Vics and changing to Taurus!!! UGGGGH! :fire:

PR

:up:

[SouLRioT]

Ohhh an RV!! well we really do have one of those too. We use it for our mobile command post. It's filled with everything we need to use if our main dispatch center went down. :coolman:

[Bluerauder]

"snip, snip"....

The Impala's have smaller light racks than the vics and they are much harder to spot from a distance...the Crown Victoria was always easy to catch if it's coming towards you.

The Virginia State Police have a bunch of "slick top" Impalas running I-95 North and South. No light bar on the top and modified graphics. It could qualify for a stealth vehicle because by the time you can recognize it and can read the side panel --- it's too late.

[SergntMac]

Chicago PD checking in here, and I did a short tour in our Motor Maintenence division a while back, so, the numbers may be slightly stale since then.

The fleet is just over 8000 strong, and 98 percent Crown Vics. The oldest is a '94 still in service for mail runs.

Every car has mobile PDT docking, your car keys are your personal computer...Screename and password, please?

The base patrol units are white when delivered through our Illinois "state bid" program that insures all cars are standardized. The base vehicle costs the CPD around 23K, and once fitted with all the necessary equipment, a fresh patrol car reaches about 28K.

Not all patrol cars get the same equipment. Supervisors get push bars, weapons racks, first aid kits, floatation devices, but no cage. Beat cars (I love that term) get all that, plus cages and LoJack. Beats that border suburban jurisdictions get ISPERN point to point radios.

Speed tracking is Traffic Division only, portable lasers. BTW, we still use some very old (and therefore sneaky) technology in some secret places. If you're Valentine 1 says you're near a fast food drive through, slow down?

Police in Chicago are exclusively blue lights, except airport cars, which are red. LOL, imagine a Cessna following an airport car into a Dunkin Donuts!

Just over half of the fleet is unmarked units, solid darker colors, just in case any of you hippies are wondering what our secret police drive. BTW too, all police cars display Illinois police plates, green on white background, starting with the letter "M". Ummm...So do all other city vehicles, like Streets and Sanitation, Department of Human Resources, Board of Ed, and so on. Only Police Department executives have their own "passenger car" plates.

We have about 500 covert vehicles spread out in special assignments, like IAD, Narcotics, OCD, Vice, and so on. Cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes, mostly confiscated vehicles used until they wear out, then they go to auction. Plain plated, and some may bear Illinois "TRP" plates, cardboard temporary registration plates issued when you buy a new or used car. The real serious covert cars for real serious undercover work, are daily rentals of any description.

We have XXX SOAR cars rolling about, I can't talk about them. But I can say they are non-descript police cars, and very, very deadly.

We use "paddy wagons" here too, large custom built transport bodies that are recycled from frame to frame as power trains wear out. Each body is divided into special areas for transporting women, men, juveniles, and dead bodies. Right now they are using those F-350 power stroke thingys under them.

We have two "RV" like mobile command posts and I've taken a dump in both of them just because I could. Also, two "TV" like mobile broadcasting trucks in Johnny Cash trim, with those big stick antennas in the middle that make them look like high cube hor'dervs when they're erect.

We have 50 or so 4 wheel ATVs for lake front patrol, sadly, our 12 Harley 'Electraglides in Blue" are ceremonial. Officer killed in the line/Presidential escort only. No "Chips" bikes on patrol...(pouting)

If any of y'all visit Chicago, you won't see everything you're expecting to see, until you call for help. Then, it's like Flash Gordon time yah, when Clay people are suddenly standing next to ya...

Weird, ya know?

[jgc61sr2002]

You name it the NYPD has it. From marked and unmarked CVPI's to Impala's 4 wheel drive vehicles, Harley Davision Motor Cycles, Several Temp. Hqts vehilces ( Large mobil home types altered for command posts), armoured personnel carriers. If it rolls, floats or flys and then some, the NYPD has it. The actual numbers are confidential. All patrol vehicles are white with blue markings.

[woaface]

http://www.schp.org/photos.asp

Pictures of SCHP vehicles^

http://www.schp.org/links.asp

Websites to all 50states HP^

[MapleLeafMerc]

The Virginia State Police have a bunch of "slick top" Impalas running I-95 North and South. No light bar on the top and modified graphics. It could qualify for a stealth vehicle because by the time you can recognize it and can read the side panel --- it's too late.

Modified graphics- I think I've seen those here, at a recent car show and on the road. They are dark navy blue with special side decals that aren't visible unless viewed from straight on with headlights. During the day they just look like a blue taxi.

I think these and all other stealth vehicles should only be used for serious work, not bagging speeders for extra cash (I mean the thousands of 10-20 over tickets in remote or rural areas with no pedestrians around). Stealthy speed enforcement does not earn the respect of the driving public, especially in places like Ontario where they have the latest radar speed detection equipment but PROHIBIT us citizens from using radar detectors. In Ontario, finding speeders is like shooting fish in a barrel.

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[03SILVERSTREAK]

You name it the NYPD has it. From marked and unmarked CVPI's to Impala's 4 wheel drive vehicles, Harley Davision Motor Cycles, Several Temp. Hqts vehicles ( Large mobile home types altered for command posts), armoured personnel carriers. If it rolls, floats or flys and then some, the NYPD has it. The actual numbers are confidential. All patrol vehicles are white with blue markings.What he said plus with over 24,000 U.M.O.S.(uniform member of service) you can pretty much imagine whats out there for Rapid Mobilization .
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[STAPrap]

Wow,interesting stuff so far here guys.I am going to check out those websites in the morning.
Very good!

DD :up:

[SHERIFF]

The Virginia State Police buys a lot of the two tone grey/blue version of Crown Victoria Police Interceptor..... have you ever had the occasion to see these pass by? The ones in the image below are 2000 models.

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/843/vasp101.jpg

[SHERIFF]

The Virginia State Police buys a lot of the two tone grey/blue version of Crown Victoria Police Interceptor..... have you ever had the occasion to see these pass by? The ones in the image below are 2000 models.

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/843/vasp101.jpg

Here's the Impala version of the same.....

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/843/vspgif.gif

[SHERIFF]

And the powerhorse in their garage............. assigned to the veteran officers only for obvious reasons........

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/843/vasp108.jpg

[EbonyMarauder03]

In eastern Pa. the Philadelphia Police use Fords (Crown Vics, E-Series vans and Explorers). Just over the board in Springfield, Montgomery Township they are into Tahoes and a few older Caprices. Pa. state police use Vics. It mostly depends on the head of the fleet or transportation dept. Some of these guys are loyal, no matter what. In one local township the guy WILL NOT use anything but Chevy. Some around here use anything, Warrington township in Bucks County has Vics, Expeditions, E-Series vans, and Explorers. Another township I think turns their cars over every 6 months. It doesn't matter though...they all turn heads for the MM. :P

[Bluerauder]

Here's the Impala version of the same.....

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/843/vspgif.gif

Yep, that is the "Slick Top" version that I mentioned. No light bar. Cool how you got the photo to flash it lights.

[dwasson]

It looks to me like the VA State Police cars would be difficult to see. Has there ever been a study relating police traffic deaths to the color of their cars? I know that there was a german study of visibility of auto paint colors and silver was considered to be the least visible.

[UAW 588]

Da Heights uses old reliable Crown Vics. They are dark blue in color and CHPD splattered in reflective white lettering on the sides. Also, they do have one Expedition as a cruzer. Just this past month Ford received a fleet order from somewhere in Korea. Looks like they are switching to Taurus for police cars. I'm not sure, but rumor has the order was for 30,000 units. I couldn't figure out why Taurus parts where so hot at work, then someone explained the fleet order. Man, I wish more foreign countries would purchase American cars for police cruzers. Then maybe our economy might start to rise. Oh well just wishful thinking at best. :depress:

[RCSignals]

on occasion you'll see a couple of sleeper black vic's with no light bars on top and tinted windows.
DD
Do cars go down the line with light bars?

Tell us about these tinted windows. They don't appear on the Order Guides. Are these some kind of special order Federal government cars?

[STAPrap]

Do cars go down the line with light bars?

Tell us about these tinted windows. They don't appear on the Order Guides. Are these some kind of special order Federal government cars?

Oh no,I mean this is what you see on "the street" after built and delivered!No light bars going down the line of course.We have some Police units pre-wired though.Cabs too!

DD :burnout:

[Paul T. Casey]

My guys use the Crown Vics (slick top of course, learn something everyday) exclusively. They tried one Intrepid, didn't make the grade, and the officer who got it always though it was the "punishment job." The shift supervisor gets a loaded Expedition. Harbor Master gets a 16' Zodiac. Detectives get the Vics, except for u/c work. Then there are several choices in the back lot. We (the townsfolk) try to get them replaced every 18 - 24 months, no sense taking any chances with the LEO's safety.

[SHERIFF]

I think these and all other stealth vehicles should only be used for serious work, not bagging speeders for extra cash

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Interesting.......

Don't want to flame.... but a serious question.... If I am driving down a Virginia intersate highway at 85 to 90 miles per hour in a 65 mile per hour zone....... why should it matter that a "stealth" car caught me? Would I have been driving that fast if I saw a marked car in my rear view mirror a mile back? If I'm not breaking the law I don't have to contribute a single penny to Virginia obviously. And the person who passes me doing 25 mph over the speed limit deserves to get caught.

Having never received a speeding ticket in my entire life, I guess I have a different view on "Stealth" cars. I think they are the greatest things since zip lock freezer bags.

(Having said all of the above, I don't see a thing wrong with going 10 mph over the speed limit, I do it all the time!)

[kurly]

Chicago PD checking in here, and I did a short tour in our Motor Maintenence division a while back, so, the numbers may be slightly stale since then.

Weird, ya know?

VERY COOL!

[STAPrap]

Anyone know who's getting the bright red Police Package Interceptors in Detroit Michigan?Could be for there for the Fire Dept.maybe?

DD

PS-I Love Police Cars and all there different colours!

[Silver_04]

Neat thread.

Presently the community that I live in has mostly Intrepids and Impalas for the city police. They also have Chevy Venture minivans. There are a couple of Crown Vics running around but it is really rare to see one. The color scheme is all white with a horizontal blue stripe running down the belt line and a shield on the front doors.

The sheriff dept has mostly CV's but I've seen Intrepids and Impalas there too. They also have Econoline vans, Tahoes and Suburbans. The color scheme for that department is almost a creme color on the sides with a medium brown on the horizontal surfaces.

The DNR guys which pull people over left and right have Tahoes and Expeditions. Green is their color of choice :)

Finally the state troopers run around in Vics mostly but there are quite a few Tauri, Camaros, and Grand Prixs. The Vics are black with a gold chevron shaped graphic on the side with a shield on the front doors.

My favorite police cars are from Columbus, IN. They have the Blues Mobile color scheme on their Vics. Black and white baby.

BTW, the Purdue police department in West Lafayette, IN has a Ram Air Trans Am. It is hard for a drunken college student to elude that car while on foot.

[Dr Caleb]

The police around here use just about anything. Impalas, Vic's mostly for patrol.

Recently they started the roving radar thing. These are usually regular cruisers with the lights removed. But there a couple unmarked Vics. The want to get up to 30 of these patroling the freeways.

I have seen just about everything though. Black Ford Pickups, Lightnings, Cadillac Sedan DeVille's , Corvettes, VW bugs, and Porche 911's to name a few. They even have a Hyundai Tiberon all riced up that they take to high schools to promote 'Street Legal' - a program to encourage kids to go to the track to race and keep it off the streets. They'll even give away free tickets to race on Friday night at lights to cars that are all done up - along with a warning if they get caught street racing, the PD will come down hard on them.

[STAPrap]

I've heard but cannot verify:The 2005 Police cars will not be sold in a two tone colour scheme anymore.1 solid colour now.So what is California gonna do etc.?
Also the horsepower has been upped to 250hp with 287 foot pounds of torque.
There is a new colour for both Police and civilian units named "Light Tundra Metallic" but I don't know what it looks like.Probably a very light brown/grey mixture.
That's all for now!

DD