2007 International Police Vehicle Design contest winners announced
Every year for the past 20, Law and Order magazine has held the International Police Vehicle Design contest, and this year's winners were just announced. As far as we can tell (this ain't a rag you can run down to your local Borders and buy), there are two categories for the competition, one for municipal police departments with less than 50 members and one for Federal or State agencies.
The winner of the small town cop car category comes from the Hummelstown Borough Police Dept. in Pennsylvania. At first we were surprised that such a simple design was declared the winner, but after examining the Hummelstown cruisers, we grew fond of their design's bold simplicity. The word "POLICE" on the side of the cop-spec Dodge Charger couldn't be clearer. It almost looks like a movie car, in fact. Second place went to the Itasca Police Department near Chicago, whose Dodge Chargers wore much more expressive graphic than the Hummelstown cars.
As for the Federal and State agency awards, first and second place both went to state universities in New York. Top prize was awarded to the State University of New York at Buffalo for its Dodge Charger, while coming in second was SUNY Albany, which was the only Ford Crown Victoria to be honored in the top two of either category this year.
You can check out the design of each winning car in the gallery below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John P. 10:10AM (8/24/2007)
Man, I still get queezy every time I see a cop car. I guess it's the guilty conscience from all those years of having fun driving fast.
I agree though, the Hummelstown car looks purposeful, simple, well designed. The Itasca car says Nascar a bit too much for me.
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nezromatron 10:37AM (8/24/2007)
How is this 'international'? Where are the Skyline/Lambo/STi/etc cop cars?
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calebe 10:49AM (8/24/2007)
yeah, LOL it's not international, more like interstate.
seoultrain 10:44AM (8/24/2007)
so what is the extent of the design done in this contest? the decals? i guess there isn't much you can do with a cop car.
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George 10:55AM (8/24/2007)
People need to get off their Charger cum fest... If you want a Charger that actually looks nice, look at the NYPD Chargers..
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Cly 11:11AM (8/24/2007)
Call me ignorant but what is there to design?
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ZK 2:48PM (8/24/2007)
The Hummelstown one kinda remind me of the cop cars from Robocop, though those were Tauruses.
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ItGuy 11:40AM (8/24/2007)
Working in Hershey (not for Hershey), Hummelstown is the next town over. Kind of cool to see them win something. However their cars are very plain and it's just your small Pensyltuckey town.
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Peter L 11:49AM (8/24/2007)
International? More like USA.
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Patrick Long 1:41PM (8/24/2007)
Comment vous dites "lame"?
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chris bate 10:32AM (8/25/2007)
If you want to see a REAL police car check out this:
http://www.inthejob.com/VE1%20(26).jpg
Imagine the new g8 as a police car.
This is a Holden Commodore SS. The standard for highway cars in OZ.
Go Mad Max
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Barney 5:14PM (8/24/2007)
I thought black & white was passe'. White is more noticeable for an emergency vehicle.
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Pat 8:33PM (8/24/2007)
Why do universities need such beefy machines ? Wouldn't a golf cart or a Golf be more suitable ?
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Daniel Dacey 9:13AM (8/25/2007)
Seems it was about as "International" as World Series Baseball.
Dan
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