The Lakewood Police Department’s new vehicles have hit the roads. The Department took delivery of the new Dodge Chargers last October, but still needed to outfit them before they could be used as patrol cars.
The cars, budgeted last year, were the cheapest vehicles available to replace some of the older Crown Victorias which had over 100,000 miles on them, an official said.
Real effecient. Let brand new vechiles sit in the garage fo 9 months.
my green chevy lumina has 235,000
Let’s look @ the bright side guys!! It may have taken 7, YES SEVEN months to “outfit” the new vehicles! …How many?? Only TWO!! But hey – after all, look how beautiful they look now?! They can almost pass for being state cruisers!!
But your Green Chevy Lumina does not run 24/7 365 and do 50 & 100 miles a day in a 10 hr shift, running calls.
Crown Vics go a few hundred thousand miles, 100,000 is nothing my grand marquis has 324,000 and going strong.
No need to replace it at 100,000, 100,000 is considered low mileage today. Stop wasting taxpayer money!
since October wow other towns have bought outfitted and put in service months ago. oh that’s right they do it right order the right equipment and put in service instead of using for parades and oh yea the 500 mile break in,, be real give it to patrol who needs for right away not other units
Let them be parked for another 7 months we have enough patrol cars riding around town.
why does it take 7 months to put cars on the road?
LPD Thanks for doing a great job, please dont let 9 imbecile and anonymous comments reflect on a greatful town!
I don’t think the old cars became unsafe as soon as the new cars arrived. It’s smart to get every mile out of an older car then transition to a new car. Every time I get a new car I break it in by driving it slow for the first 500 miles. I don’t think police cars are any different. This all sounds like it was done to save us tax payers money.
You want cops busy checking the oil or doing their job? If you drove a taxi you woukdnt ride in those crown vics if you had another option.
For hiding at intersections and pulling over motorists, doesn’t take more than .025 miles each time. That’s efficiency and doesn’t rack up big miles.
The patrol cars can use a lot of miles, but most are idling and waiting..