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UK Police Demonstrates Crime-Fighting Vauxhall Ampera
This is what a Vauxhall Ampera patrol car would look like if the UK police were to use the Chevrolet Volt's European cousin for its daily services. Vauxhall displayed the Ampera in Police livery featuring the latest policing equipment on the Home Office’s Centre of Applied Science & Technology (CAST) stand at the Police & Security Conference after it won a competition run by the Association of Chief Police Officers Intelligent Transport Systems (ACPO ITS).
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Vauxhall Ampera Tries Its Luck As An Ambulance Apprentice
It's nowhere near as fast as a motorcycle ambulance or as spacious as a regular emergency van, so what exactly has the Chevrolet Volt's British cousin, the Vauxhall Ampera, to offer to an ambulance service? Read more »...
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Bmw Gains Uk Police Approval, Announces 330d Saloon Interceptor
Good news for police officers bad news for tax-payers in the UK; Hyundai (see here) is not the only maker to be approved as a key supplier for all 52 Police forces around the country by the National Policing Improvement Agency. BMW has also received...
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Scottish Police Turn Crime Gang's Audi Q7 S-line To A Patrol Car
As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. A £40,000 black Audi Q7 TDI S-Line seized from a criminal gang in the north of Glasgow will now be used as a patrol car by Strathclyde Police, Scotland's largest police force, and one of the biggest in...
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Uk Police Forces To Employ Mitsubishi I-miev, Speed Criminals Rejoice!
While police officers in the States are getting ready to welcome the 2011 Chevrolet Caprice, in the UK the boys in blue -well, at least some of them- will soon be cracking down crime with the help (?) of Mitsubishi's all-electric i MiEV. The five-door...
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Opel / Vauxhall Dresses New Astra In Police Livery
The new Astra isn't due to go on sale in Europe until this winter but GM UK Special Vehicles has already introduced a police package for the compact hatch. Vauxhall, which sold more than 900 police Astras in the UK last year, said that it usually...
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