Australian Police Department Adds BMW i8 To Its Fleet
As far as police cars go, this is a pretty cool one, isn’t it? It was handed over from BMW Sydney to the New South Wales police department this month and will cover the Rose Bay Local Area Command.
However, as we’ve seen before with these ultra-cool cop cars, this one isn’t a high-speed pursuit vehicle. Instead, it’s been created as a tool to “break down barriers between police and the community,” according to Superintendent Brad Hodde.
He went on to say: “It enables the community to come up and start talking about the car. That conversation then leads to them opening up and they find out that we’re not such bad people after all.”
It makes sense: from our experience, the i8 gets a lot of attention even when it isn’t liveried up like a cop car…
Sources: BMW Blog, Car Scoops
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
I guess it’ll be a shock to some peoples systems.
Police in Sydney have a new toy to play with in the form of an i8, but it won’t be involved in any high-speed pursuits meanwhile in Dubai
“i8” to be a cirminal over there now.
The livery is horrible :D
I h8 the police sometimes
Here’s our pursuit vehicle! (Not joking by the way, these are everywhere)
Half way through a chase has to pull over to recharge
Meanwhile in Finland
Why an i8? Why not an M8? XD
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