So I got really bored this past hour and went into my county purchasing records and found out we are purchasing a second batch of FPIs, all seem to be unmarked, and our first batch of FPIUs, all unmarked. The second part confuses me because our county currently uses Late-1990s and Mid-2000s Suburbans and Late-1990s jeep Cherokees as our SUV vehicle. None that I know of are unmarked. Our fleet consists of 90% Crown Victorias and the rest are Suburbans and Cherokees.We bought 50 FPIs to replace our very old Crown Vic Fleet in 2013. And I dont believe we have purchased any new FPIs in the last 2 years. I know we dont currently have any FPIUs in service. Our county usually shows our new vehicles off when they get them. But wouldnt it make more sense to replace the Suburbans and the Cherokess first with marked FPIUs instead of servicing unmarked FPIUs in without replacing something. Most of our Suburbans and Cherokees are K9s, Maritime, SRO units. At least from what ive seen from living here since i was born. It just dosnt make sense to me not replacing the marked units first since they are aging. I know most of our unmarked CVPIs are 1999 and 2000 model years. But they arnt Patrol Cars so they dont see 24/7 usage. I dont know if I agree with servicing unmarked FPIUs first without replacing our aging suvs. But i can get on bored with replacing our old unmarked CVPIs. Tell me what yall think. And if youd like me to link the pdfs i will.

Yeah... Sorry lol I only read half of that cause I have to get ready to go in a few minutes, but FPIs? We tried that in my city, and most of the officers hated that. Almost little to no arm room, It has some mechanical issues every so often and among some other things, so now we're transitioning into a full on FPIU fleet and trust me, those things are real nice! Lots of room, accelerates good, and most of all It just looks so nice.

Yeah I know. My state police love the FPIUs because of the pursuit rating. But as for the FPIs. I dont know man.. Thats not my call. Persoanally I would have FPIUs and Chargers but thats not my call to make. I just get taxed to shit so they can buy new cars. Its not that I dont like Taurus's but I guess they just wanted an all ford fleet.

lmao Speaking of FPIs, I was just in one for the past 4 hours for a police ridealong, not that bad honestly, not much room and definitely not the best at acceleration but got the job done good. As for chargers... No. No, No. No, No, No. Hell to the No, No. lol Chargers are complete shit especially the older versions :P (Like2008-2010) not much room, needs tons of work on it (Mechanically speaking) and just kinda sucks in general.  We test out lots of cars trying to figure out what would replace the CVPI, and found out the FPIU does the job amazingly. 

A neighboring department uses chargers and from what they say they lovem

It truly just depends on how your department is run, their policies and what all happens in the cars. Our officers use these cars almost 24/7 literally... Always patrolling or just driving around in them and what-not. Leaving it in idle whenever writing reports or doing traffic and what-not. 

The neighboring pd is very small. Like less than 30 officers. They bought chargers cuz all the crownvics they had were all old hamme downs from early 2000s. The cheif uses an unmarked charger. They said they lovem. Its a small town. They said comparatively speaking, the chargers were the least expensive to buy, outfit, and maintain so thats why they went with them