Standard Cars for Police Use?

[Confuzzled]

When New Jersey was broke(again) back in the early 70's, the state paid by the mile for Officers to use their own cars. Pretty interesting to be pulled over by a Corvette.LOL

Didn't Honolulu do that in the 70s and 80s?

 

[n5ims]

The village of Northbrook, Illinois in the mid 60s, had their entire department fitted out using the standard yellow/checker taxi 4 door model.

biomedbob

kf4br

Chicago PD also had some copcar dot com - The home of the American Police Car - Photo Archives

It appears that a police package was one of the standard lines for Checker Motors. While they're best known for taxis, they also sold to the public and as this flyer proves, to police departments Checkers as cop cars? at Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts

 

[N5TWB]

I remember seeing the police down in Kentucky using Corvettes and other "sports" cars on the highways. Kind of strange seeing someone lit up with a corvette.

Not so strange when you consider the one plant assembling Corvettes is in KY.

 

[CoolCat]

City PD has a Dodge Intrepid, and a few 03 Tarus's (or would that be Tarui?

Neither...

I believe the plural of "Taurus" would simply be "Tauruses".

 

[vinzep491]

All I know if is someone offered me a Changer to ride around in all day, I would not give two craps about worrying if I had the hemi or not.

I'd feel awesomely fantastic as it were in EITHER model



ut expecially in a campus enviroment, HEMI is so unneeded

 

[FFPM571]

The village of Northbrook, Illinois in the mid 60s, had their entire department fitted out using the standard yellow/checker taxi 4 door model.

biomedbob

kf4br

Checker acutally made a police package then.

 

[skidplate]

One day, I saw a cop on a bicycle.

 

[CoolCat]

Bicycle cops are fairly common in cities/towns with large public parks, heavy foot-traffic "strips", conservation land, or public [paved] bike paths to patrol. Generally speaking, this has little to do with budget cuts.

 

[radioman2001]

Yonkers PD cars used to be painted taxi yellow, I don't remember if they were checkers or not.
The new Charger is a vast improvement over the original. You can actually see out of them, maybe next year I'll trade my 09 for a new one.

 

[DickH]

And what does all this have to do with scanning? (This is the General Scanning Forum).

 

[radioman2001]

Maybe you should look at the posts heading. If the post was put in the wrong forum, so be it. Don't be picky.

 

[Skypilot007]

A little town in South Jersey called Medford Lakes used to have diesel powered VW Rabbit patrol car back in the early 80's. It was the most rediculous cruiser I ever saw. I wish I had a picture of it. I outran it on my moped several times!

 

[Confuzzled]

Yonkers PD cars used to be painted taxi yellow, I don't remember if they were checkers or not.

Seems like I remember a few Canadian cities that used yellow cars. With a big red gumball mounted on a bar.

Similar to this, but in different versions:

 

[radioman2001]

That's a great picture, the New York State Park Police, (before they were absorbed by the NYSP) had in 1976 VW things for park patrol. You didn't even know it was a cop car until it pulled up on you.

 

[SmitHans]

So.... the university I go to they just got 5 2012 Dodge Chargers but they're just the SE standard one? I see that the ones for police use have the gear shifter near the dash well these ones have it near the center council? How can they use these for police cars? Is it cheaper for them to buy these vs. the pursuits ones? OK THanks

Alot of times, university police departments will have non-police package cars for the simple reason that they were given some cars from the state motor pool - the same fleet that other non-police gov't agencies get their cars from.

 

[mjbjr]

We had the sheriff department running 4 wheelers up and down the roads and interstates for a short time.