Lancer Police Cars?

nicholas · Post by **nicholas** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:40 pm

Was cruising over to the shops today, and saw a new Lancer go past the other way fully kitted out in NSW police livery.

Just wondering, does anyone know whether they are using these as general duties, or HWP? Mainly, do they have radar fitted?

da_msta_chizz · Post by **da_msta_chizz** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:22 pm

nicholas wrote:Was cruising over to the shops today, and saw a new Lancer go past the other way fully kitted out in NSW police livery.

Just wondering, does anyone know whether they are using these as general duties, or HWP? Mainly, do they have radar fitted?

They're just town cars.
we have a couple around where i live..

xSlurpee · Post by **xSlurpee** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:40 pm

Some drive 06 wrx sti's ... soooo jealous

Sinalot · Post by **Sinalot** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:44 pm

Saw one this evening going down monovale road in Sydney. It didn't have radar thingo installed

Taeivon_Rep · Post by **Taeivon_Rep** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:05 am

saw an evo 9 HWP car in woolgoolga (just outside coffs) parked infront of the station it was just passing through apparently but looked damn nice but had radar fitted

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:08 am

Cops used to drive old Mini Cooper S's! Old man was also booked by a cop in an 84 Cordia turbo.

nikhan · Post by **nikhan** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:53 am

Im not surprised really...they need these cars to catch those souped up cars esp those racing. U need these jap cars for high speed chasing on cornerings. In singapore they use WRX's and in Italy the lamboghini as HWP

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:57 am

nikhan wrote:Im not surprised really...they need these cars to catch those souped up cars esp those racing. you need these jap cars for high speed chasing on cornerings. In singapore they use WRX's and in Italy the lamboghini as HWP

so why do they have hummer police cars in victoria?

da_msta_chizz · Post by **da_msta_chizz** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:12 pm

tippin9 wrote:
nikhan wrote:Im not surprised really...they need these cars to catch those souped up cars esp those racing. you need these jap cars for high speed chasing on cornerings. In singapore they use WRX's and in Italy the lamboghini as HWP
so why do they have hummer police cars in victoria?

So all the people that try to run in small/compact cars are easy to catch.
they just drive over them.

And yeah..they're not EVO's.
They're just basic front wheel drive lancer..

nicholas · Post by **nicholas** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:23 pm

Yes, nikhan I think you're off the mark.

The police have been under pressure for years because high speed chases are considered to be too dangerous, and it is considered 'safer' to let people get away if certain speeds are exceeded.

These days, cars like Evo 10s are in the fleet for the same reason as Hummers are; they're on demo from car manufacturers, and they are used to raise the profile of both the police force and that car manufacturer... but they only do general duties. Saying that they'd use the Evo 10 for HWP is like saying they'd use the Hummer for riot control... it'd do the job perfectly, but I doubt it'd happen!

nikhan · Post by **nikhan** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:20 pm

lol..they have hummer police cars in vic? i've never seen them before. Welll...i tot they used those cars to do high speed chase. Nvm then...pretty noob of me

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:55 pm

the hummer po-po cars were shown on top gear australia on monday night. I dont think there is many of them anyway

nicholas · Post by **nicholas** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:58 pm

Yeah just a publicity stunt. f**k I hate hummers.

louiszhu · Post by **louiszhu** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:11 am

I saw those f*ckers driving S15 ....Can u believe it ?It's a nightmare for those racers..

da_msta_chizz · Post by **da_msta_chizz** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:30 am

I'm just waiting for them to finally screw everything else and just run N1 spec R34's or something.
Honestly..who would try to run from a modified R34?

nicholas · Post by **nicholas** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:56 am

Jesus, it's not FF3 you know!

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:27 pm

ive seen undercover (and full done up) wrx's, supras, evo 7's and rx7's. Mostly around the bankstown area

louiszhu · Post by **louiszhu** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:47 am

tippin9 wrote:ive seen undercover (and full done up) wrx's, supras, evo 7's and rx7's. Mostly around the bankstown area

Wish them crash each other..

nicholas · Post by **nicholas** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:04 pm

tippin9 wrote:ive seen undercover (and full done up) wrx's, supras, evo 7's and rx7's. Mostly around the bankstown area

Hmm, when people say things like that to me, I have to laugh.

You can't really have a 'full done up' import that is all legal / complied, and the police themselves wouldn't want to get caught by other police with illegally modified cars...
so which are you saying; that they're not actually 'full done up', that perhaps police weren't in fact driving them... or perhaps that you like to embellish stories somewhat?

oodLes · Post by **oodLes** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:34 pm

The police have been using already modified cars for a while now, usually they're confiscated via hoon laws (dunno what they do with all the VL's though)

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