{"id":7830,"date":"2017-08-14T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2020-06-20T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:38:41","slug":"how-will-the-police-force-replace-their-fords-and-holdens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/australia\/how-will-the-police-force-replace-their-fords-and-holdens\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will The Police Force Replace Their Fords and Holdens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know that the Holden Commodore has been an Aussie icon on the roads for quite a few years now.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also all seen Holden Commodores tricked out as police cars\u2026 sometimes a bit too close for comfort and sometimes as a very welcome sight indeed. If you are both sharp-eyed and lead-footed, then the sight and shape of any white Commodore of a certain age is enough to get you easing up on the accelerator and slowing down; the shape is burned into your brain like the shape of a hawk is burned into the brain of a chicken (yes, chickens actually do have brains).<\/p>\n

It also appears that the red lion vs blue oval rivalry might be alive and well in the police force, as all the points above also apply to Ford Falcons, including the bit about the shape being burned into the brains of the lead-footed.<\/p>\n

However, the doors of the Holden factory are closing. So are Ford\u2019s, which means that if our police force wants to have a vehicle fleet that\u2019s up to date, they need to look for another company.\u00a0 Naturally, car manufacturers around the globe have been eyeing up the contract of providing our police cars\u2026 and not just for the honour of the job but also for the very big bucks this sort of contract would entail.<\/p>\n

So what are our boys and girls in blue going to be driving?<\/p>\n

Rumours are flying thick and fast. \u00a0Browsing through the Australian Federal Police and the NSW police websites don\u2019t exactly yield a lot of information about what the new vehicle is going to be \u2013 it\u2019s all kept very, very quiet.\u00a0 However, the rumour mill has popped up a couple of possibilities that could very well be in the running for what we\u2019ll see on the roads sporting the disco lights and with the word POLICE proudly emblazoned on the side (hopefully not pulling up your driveway when you hadn\u2019t dialled 000).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not easy being a cop car.\u00a0 A cop car has to have great handling and plenty of power and torque for quick responses. It shouldn\u2019t look ridiculous and it should have enough space for all the gadgetry that a modern cop needs. (Question: how come talking on the phone is considered distracting to the common or garden driver but communicating with dispatchers and other units while driving isn\u2019t distracting to a cop?)\u00a0 A cop car also needs to have enough space to transport the newly arrested naughty people where they can\u2019t be a problem to the driver, and possibly enough space to carry a K-9 officer.\u00a0 It also shouldn\u2019t cost the earth to purchase or maintain, so that rules out all the fancy wheels used by the police in the United Arab Emirates.\u00a0 We\u2019re paying enough tax without that sort of expense!<\/p>\n

The rumour mill has ground out a few possibilities for what\u2019s going to be the replacement for the Fords and Holdens. \u00a0One very likely contender at the moment is the Chrysler 300 SRT <\/a>.\u00a0 One of these V8-engined sedans was\u00a0spotted wearing the NSW Police livery back in May.<\/p>\n

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However, FCA Australia (the official name of Chrysler Australia) haven\u2019t exactly been trumpeting the winning of the contract all over their website the way you think they would do if they had sealed the contract. There are other possibilities still in the running:<\/p>\n

Volvo XC60 <\/a>SUVs, which provide a bit of off-road capacity plus Volvo\u2019s legendary safety standards, have also been spotted with the disco lights fitted.\u00a0 Volvo does police cars for other countries, so it\u2019s got a proven track record in this area.<\/p>\n

The Kia Stinger <\/a>is another hot contender and certainly has a beautifully appropriate name \u2013 what else would you use in a police sting operation other than a Stinger?\u00a0 This new release V6 sedan isn\u2019t the only offering put up for consideration by Kia, with the Sorento SUV <\/a>being in the running. The Kias are hot contenders because as well as offering plenty of bang, they don\u2019t require quite as many bucks as some of the luxury European contenders, such as the BMW 5-series.<\/p>\n

Another South Korean in the running is the Hyundai Sonata Active <\/a>, a number of which have recently been added to the Queensland police fleet, although the rumour mill has it that these needed a few tweaks to the brakes and tyres (and possibly some other tweaks they\u2019re not telling the general public about).<\/p>\n

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Up until now, the general policy was to use locally made cars as much as possible. However, now that the local factories have gone belly up, it\u2019s quite possible that instead of just getting one or two main marques serving as the police fleet in most states, we\u2019re going to see a range of decent mid-range sedans, station wagons and SUVs in police livery.\u00a0 Which will make it a problem for the leadfooted among us who have conditioned themselves to react to the shape of a certain model: you\u2019ll never be able to pick a patrol from a distance\u2026<\/p>\n

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We all know that the Holden Commodore has been an Aussie icon on the roads for quite a few years now.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also all seen Holden Commodores tricked out as police cars\u2026 sometimes a bit too close for comfort and sometimes as a very welcome sight indeed. If you are both sharp-eyed and lead-footed, then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11356,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}