Pork Hunt said :

Keijidosha said :

I think the valid question to be asked is do the AFP really need $80,000+ Landcruisers? There are plenty of capable 4×4’s available at half that price.

Such as ?

Holden Colorado, Isuzu D-Max, Nissan Navara, Toyota Hilux… just to name a few.

Keijidosha said :

I think the valid question to be asked is do the AFP really need $80,000+ Landcruisers? There are plenty of capable 4×4’s available at half that price.

Such as ?

ATypicalUsername said :

I think the point is not only do they have so many four wheel drives, but they have so many unmarked four wheel drives.
Surely you only need a few unmarked cars, and of those, you really don’t need ANY 4X4s. Surely one or two would be fine for most situations, if you really do need the utility such a vehicle provides, why not bring in one of the many fully painted police SUV/4X4s?

Yeah, but it’s a bit harder to use a marked 4WD as the family car on weekend etc, isn’t it? Hahahaha! 🙂

ATypicalUsername said :

I think the point is not only do they have so many four wheel drives, but they have so many unmarked four wheel drives.
Surely you only need a few unmarked cars, and of those, you really don’t need ANY 4X4s. Surely one or two would be fine for most situations, if you really do need the utility such a vehicle provides, why not bring in one of the many fully painted police SUV/4X4s?

I’m sure the “bad guys” will wait for the SRG to borrow another divisions vehicle, or maybe they can check with the SRG beforehand to make sure they can actually turn up to the party?

I think the valid question to be asked is do the AFP really need $80,000+ Landcruisers? There are plenty of capable 4×4’s available at half that price.

I think the point is not only do they have so many four wheel drives, but they have so many unmarked four wheel drives.
Surely you only need a few unmarked cars, and of those, you really don’t need ANY 4X4s. Surely one or two would be fine for most situations, if you really do need the utility such a vehicle provides, why not bring in one of the many fully painted police SUV/4X4s?

200 Series?? Pfft.

I’d say it’s a bunch of soccer mums watching reruns of Ellen.

Ozi said :

This may alarm some but they may have more than 10 patrol cars too….

shhhhhhh though, that’s classified.

ACT Policing Fleet: 197 motor vehicles, 27 motorcycles

Ozi said :

This may alarm some but they may have more than 10 patrol cars too….

shhhhhhh though, that’s classified.

Where? Never seen one…

This may alarm some but they may have more than 10 patrol cars too….

shhhhhhh though, that’s classified.

P1, do you do realise that the AFP does more than Police the ACT?

“It set me to wondering just how many such vehicles a city the size of Canberra needs?”

Well those dough-nuts aren’t going to fetch themselves.

So what is the OP’s problem, doesn’t like the cops buying 4x4s?

They also have an armoured bearcat, a fleet of armoured BMW X5s based in Canberra, jet-skis and auxiliary vehicles for special tasks.

Doesn’t seem unreasonable, particular since the SRS and ORG were merged last year to form a single Canberra based division called SRG.

It’s not like their buying custom built BMW estate wagons for armed patrol cars like the Met does for CO19.

They obviously know more about the Zombie Apocalypse and Reptoid Invasions than we do. Trust me, when you’re driving waist deep through battered zombies you’re going to be thankful you have a snorkel to protect yourself from their blood.

I spent some good years at these 2 buildings. When are they due to be demolished ?