Vehicles in Estonia:

PD

EMS

FD

Investigative Committee of Russia recently received some new vehicles. I used to ride them (as a passenger). Some of them look pretty good, I think. 

 

Criminal Laboratory based on Gazel, older version. Some of them are fitted for off-road terrain and have lifted suspension and a winch (and it sucks riding in it). Inside there's a crate with some creepy CSI stuff, a few seats, and a table. Also features several sockets and can provide electricity during crime scene investigation. 

A bit newer version based on Ford Transit. Generally provides more space and more seats.

 

A newer Volkswagen, also equipped for some light offroad trip. Never rode this one though, our city received them only a few months ago.

 

A UAZ with no lights and siren, designed to provide assistance at the scene but mostly just drives tons of papers around. 

 

Fully marked InvestComm Ford. We have some of them but I never even looked inside. Used by high ranking officials I guess. 

Version with a lightbar, illegally parked.

 

Those are the most common vehicles that InvesCom has. No markings, no lights or siren, no radio, an ordinary civilian Ford, usually Focus. The brass uses Mondeos. The only thing that gives up its identity is the license plate, always having O...CK on it. 

 

The one on the pic above has blue strobe lights, however, today it's illegal. No strobes are allowed in Russia, unless the vehicle belongs to the Federal Protective service. 

 

A funny fact: drivers are separate category of employees, both civil and LEOs. Those who are on the force can hold a rank up to major. However, drivers are unarmed, do not assist in investigations, are not trained to drive "code-3", and under no circumstances an ordinary investigator would be allowed to drive a service car. Russian police shares that silly manner: police drivers aren't even supposed to assist fellow officers, they should stay in their vehicles at all times. 

Edited March 26, 201511 yr by Hastings

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>Close up two by rolesnevich, on Flickr

I'm not sure if I posted my local agencies on this thread or another one similar to this one but here is mine.

 

 

 

Police: Kissimmee Police Department

 

 

 

 

PD's Ford Explorers with HG2: 

 

Sheriff: Osceola County Sheriff's Office

 

 Interesting article about my local sheriff

 

Video: found this video on YouTube.. My County sheriff chasing a goat (my apologies for this dude's foul language. Its the only video I could find showing the departments vehicles and lights other than the video of the charger they use or the blurry ones)

 

 

  

 

 

FD: Osceola County Fire Rescue

 

 

 

 

Edited April 1, 201511 yr by A320FlyBlueJB

I present the brand new Engine 15 of Saxonburg Volunteer Fire department. It a Pierce Velocity Pumper

 

E15 and Squad 15-2 (fire police)

Command 15

rolesnevich, on Flickr

>Command 15 by

Ladder 15 crew getting ready to check the roof

 

Rest of picture for that day  http://photos.olesnevich.us/Emergency-Vehicles/Pennsylvania/Butler-County/Saxonburg-Volunteer-Fire-Company/20150329-Knoch-High-Carbon-Monox

 

 

Edited May 30, 201510 yr by Roth
fix spoiler.

It's funny how I look at all these other fire departments and see all these awesome LEDS like a whelen freedom as a lightbar, ect. 

 

Then I look at my department with all the slow halogen rotating lights.... Least we have real q sirens that're loud as hell and sound awesome. 

 

Pics are in the spoiler so it does not take up so much page space.

 

 

 

 

 

at least all your trucks are from the early 90's and up....

 

This was our first out engine until last year... its the oldest truck in the county..

('67 American LaFrance, and that's me hangin on the side)

 

Which was pushed to second out by this beast..

 

Which that truck replaced the '69 ALF that's second from the right

 

Our main ambulance

 

and finally our local police got kicked out for bein dicks and spending too much, so the sheriff's took over

 

Just a little Small Town, USA!!! :D

Wow I am very surprised to see this thread still alive! Its great. Keep the vehicles and the pictures coming. Love all the Pierce trucks (;

here is a small selection of my recent favs:

 

Summit County Sheriff SWAT MRAP by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Akron Fire Department Pierce Truck 10 by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Norton Police Dodge Charger by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Kent State University Police K-9 Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Berea Ohio Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Fairlawn Ohio Police Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

United States postal Service police Chevrolet Malibu by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Kirtland Hills Ohio Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Cincinnati Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Parked Police Vehicles by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Cleveland Fire Department Rosenbauer Ladder 7 by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

 

 

Greetings from Melbourne :)

Victoria Police

Normal Patrol:

Highway Patrol(A blue one, they come in many different colours):

Critical Incident Response Team:

Special Operations Group:

Motorcycle:

Ambulance:

Metropolitan Fire Brigade

Fire Engine:

And a bunch of engines put together:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the ONLY picture I can get of our cruisers.  I think this is the newest one. 

 

Here's pictures of our engines (Engine 2, Engine 3 respectively) and Tanker 1:

 

Here's Rescue 1 and Squad 1:

 

Here's Tower 1 for all our skyscrapers (max 4 story buildings in the town):

DO NOT OPEN LAST ONE UNTIL READING:

This last engine is our newest, most top-of-the-line apparatus.  I know all you will be jealous your towns can't afford this beauty.  Seeing it arrive to your brush fire will put all doubts out about this getting out of control.  Go ahead and open the spoiler now- but don't get jealous.

A 1953 Dodge Power Wagon.  How it still works I have no idea.  But this thing is our forestry unit.

 Thank you though to all of the firefighters, officers, and EMTs that work in my town. You don't get paid anything and you are always there to help us!

PD's Caprice and old Tahoe in the back

PD's 4WD Tahoe, Caprice, and unmarked Impala

 

Chief's Durango, and Detective's personal Tahoe

PD's old Tahoe

 

Our 2008 Pierce Arrow XT with SQURT 

 Our 1999 Seagrave 1500/750

1982/1991 American LaFrance 1500/500 

1992 Ford F-350

 

 

Edited May 17, 201510 yr by OperatorOperating

Some recents, 

 

There was some kind of conference next door to me and area fire department leaders and with them, came their service vehicles:

 

Stow Fire Department Ford Crown Victoria by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Gaggle of Fire Department SUV's by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Solon Fire Department Dodge Durango by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Mogadore Fire Department Ford Crown Victoria by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Richfield Fire Department Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

New Franklin Fire Department Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Ravenna Fire Department Chief Ford Expedition by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Jackson Township Fire Department Chevrolet Blazer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Ohio State Fire Marshal Jeep Patriot by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Also on that day, some out of county police visitors:

Brunswick Police Dodge Charger by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Lorain County Sheriff Chevrolet Caprice by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

North Canton Ohio Police Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

The next day saw these 2:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/tbsbz5]Bath Township Ohio Police Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Portage County Sheriff K-9 Ford Crown Victoria by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

And finally today saw these guys:

Springfirld Township Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Plymouth Ohio Police Chevrolet Caprice by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Our Aging Neighborhood Fleet:

 

FORD FIESTA (COMPLETE WITH HUB CAPS)

VAUXHALL/OPEL CORSA 

FORD FOCUS (The Nicest of the Neighborhood vehicles - Some are also used by Response teams)

 

RESPONSE

 

HYUNDAI I30

VAUXHALL/OPEL VIVIARO (PRE 2015)

 

AND THE NEW (MEAN) 2015 EDITION

 

 

ROADS POLICING (TRAFFIC)

 

THE BMW'S

 

ANPR INTERCEPTOR

COVERT/UNMARKED (ALSO AN AUDI A4)

 

SPECIALIST OPERATIONS

VW CRAFTER - (PSU/ TAU)

 

LAND ROVER DEFENDER (ARMED RESPONSE)

 

NATIONAL POLICE AIR SERVICE (NPAS)

 

NPAS #-# FORMERLY INDIA 99 (McDonell Douglas MD-902 EXPLORER)

 

These show the most commonly seen vehicles, there are many more, but honestly we'd be here all day, Thanks

City of Pittsburgh Police

City of Pittsburgh Ambulance

Penn Hills Police

Brush 27-2 - Buffalo Township Vol fire company brush truck.

 

My town pretty much had a fleet of 20 or so all black 2010 + 2011 Ford CVPI's with light bars (no decals or anything) up until about last year. They had 3 or 4 slicktop ones too. In addition, last year, they bought a used dark blue 2011 slicktop from another town and I haven't seen it in a few months, probably retired. Ever since then they've been phasing in Ford Explorers, some all black, some with "POLICE" on the side which hasn't been done in a few years to save money. The last time they had marked units was pre-2009, when they had black and white units. Afterwards they started doing a setup similar to the CT State Police, lightbar, pushbar, but all black instead of gray.

2011 Ford CVPI along with a slicktop Explorer next to it: 

There's only about 3 or 4 Crown Vics left now sadly, but they're starting to get beat up looking and run down anyway. 

The school SRO has a maroon and white (school colors) 2008 Dodge Charger that they're keeping running. It used to be all black until the school auto program repainted it. 

CT State Police:

Edited June 1, 201510 yr by Original Light

Here in Australia we don't have Crown Vics and Chargers, so this may be something a little different for y'all Americans.

Your average patrol car would look something like this: (left: VF Holden Commodore, right: FG Ford Falcon)

 

And the Highway Patrol variants:

 

 

And then there is this. Which I didn't even know existed until I saw it in person yesterday. (It's the next gen Falcon, although it looks kinda like a mustang.)

I'll post some more random stuff later. 

Edited May 31, 201510 yr by MrRandomCapital

My favorite vehicles some I see everyday.

THE LIGHT SETUP ON THIS TAHOE IS SOO SEXY

Edited May 31, 201510 yr by Unit607

We don't have our own PD, so the RCMP are here to help. We recently got the new interceptors, but, we still have Crown Vics.

Local Ambulance Service:

And our local Fire Department:

65 miles of round trip travelling took us from Akron to Massillon to North Canton then to Hartville

 

Starting off with the shots from Massillon:

No one was at the front desk so I elected to shoot from the publicness of the sidewalk right next to the entrance to the police parking lot, Notice: please do not enter a fenced in police parking lot without permission, there is a decent chance you will be allowed in if you speak to the supervisor in charge inside the police station.

 

Massillon Ohio Police Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Brand new vehicle

 

Massillon Ohio Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

We stopped off at the local highway Patrol post in North Canton, they were not willing to let us into the police vehicle lot but did offer to drive a vehicle around, but they did not have what I was looking for there so we left(I was looking for a new 2015 Tahoe)

 

Then off to Hartville:

 

Hartville did not have a fenced in lot, an officer did come out of the station and was interested in what we were doing, we had a please conversation, he enjoys the Explorers more than he did the CVPI's.

 

Hartville Ohio Police Ford Explorer by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Hartville Ohio Police Ford Crown Victoria by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Hartville Ohio Police Ford Taurus by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

 

Hartville Ohio Police Chevrolet Tahoe by Raymond Wambsgans, on Flickr

Apparently not all police Tahoes are pursuit rated.