I've always been curious, how do Police Departments decide what kind of lights they are going to have?

I noticed some (here anyway) RCMP has various lighting equipment being:

Federal Signal Legend

Whelen Edge 9000

Tomar 930L

Headlight strobes

Tail light strobes

reverse light strobes, (which some of them have wig wags instead of strobes, some don't have anything)

Some have the Whelen Inner Edges

Some have TA's

All have mirror LEDS

And some if not all slicktops (especially B.C) are different.

 

Halifax Regional Police use:

Whelen Liberty as their MAIN lightbar for mostly all of their vehicles

The main patrol cars have:

Whelen Liberty

Wig Wags

LEDS on either side of the brake light in the back window 

Headlight strobes, Tail light strobes for all HRP vehicles

Some have reverse light strobes and some have Wig Wags instead

1 or 2 Crown Vics have Code 3 X2100's on them

The slicktops have:

Mirror LEDS

Whelen Avenger

Headlight Strobes

Tail light strobes

Reverse lights strobes or Wig Wags

And a Whelen Dominator TA in the back windows

 

Almost half of HRP 323 Police Vehicles are unmarked and not one of them has the same lighting setups....

 

Anyone know or have an idea why departments do this? some HRP cruisers even have different flash patterns, not sure what the U.S cops are like so I used the Police where i'm from.

 

Shouldn't department lights all be setup the same? I know RCMP varies from province to province but I see it where I live to.

 

Its based on their budget and insurance company. The police department around here their insurance company makes its so they only have to put on a LIGHTBAR and a Directional bar. Then ofcourse the flashing headlights/tail lights.

 

 

Thats with the old crown vics..

 

But now with the new police interceptor there getting, there buying the full packaged (its cheaper in numbers that way)

 

Which is "Grill Lights, Lightbar, Rear window Lights/Directional"  

Edited October 20, 201312 yr by Darkangel

Its based on their budget and insurance company. The police department around here their insurance company makes its so they only have to put on a LIGHTBAR and a Directional bar. Then ofcourse the flashing headlights/tail lights.

 

 

Thats with the old crown vics..

 

But now with the new police interceptor there getting, there buying the full packaged (its cheaper in numbers that way)

 

Which is "Grill Lights, Lightbar, Rear window Lights/Directional"  

My local department uses a different setup to the vic and now everything is LED, some HRP Taurus' have whelen Vertex in the corner headlights and some just have grill lights that flash white and no corner vertex, but pretty much the same setup as the vics other than those changes.