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ckm @ Sep 17th 2007 1:20PM
A friend of mine is a cop, he drives an SUV. Last time he gave me a ride, the whole thing was pretty much full of boxes of evidence for a case he was working on. The other SUV on the force is used for K9 duty. With the hatch in the back and the 'trunk' space for the dog, they still have room to haul a suspect back to the station without having to call another unit.
Oh, and they also patrol park land, so about 30% of their time is spend driving around dirt roads. Some are pretty well maintained, others are slowly turning back to nature and become muddy streams in the rain.
OTOH, around 20% of their time is also spend on intrestates at high speed (90+ mph) and the new generation of 'softroaders' are great at doing double duty. Or perhaps you would prefer them to have 3 different vehicles appropriate for each environment?
911 Operator: "Yes sir, we'll be out as soon as we can get back to the garage and switch to the situation appropriate vehicles."
Yup, that's what I want to hear....