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Show Pleasant Grove Police Acquire New Undercover Patrol Car L' f-f' , r: This 2010 Dodge Challenger was provided to the Pleasant Grove Police Dept. by Power Innovations at no cost to the city. Photo courtesy of Titnpanogos Times The car is black, a 2010 Dodge Challenger. It is equipped with all the normal things a car should have and more. It can play "Bad Boys" when the car finds a hit. It reads license plates and tells an officer when license plates are expired. The police officers love to drive it. Pleasant Grove Police Chief Tom Paul has a ready smile when anyone asks him about the new police car and you can tell he likes to talk about it. The car was provided to the Pleasant Grove Police Dept. by Power Innovations at no cost to the city, except they have to purchase pur-chase their own gasoline. The actual owner of the car is Bob Mount, an honorary captain with the police department, who donated it to the city police. The car is equipped with 5,000 Watts of perfect AC power pow-er at any engine RPM.425 horse power, one touch total integrated inte-grated control, 4G communications communica-tions package, advanced covert lighting, advanced scene lighting, light-ing, advanced audible warning, ALPR capable of processing a tag a second at speeds up to 80 mph. It has extreme power and control and is aggressive for undercover un-dercover patrol. Chief Paul said that only license li-cense plates which are three months or more overdue will be picked up by this special ve hicle. It uses infrared to work at night to read license plates. The number goes to a computer which sends it to NCIC to see if the car is wanted anywhere in the United States. If the suspect car turns out to be stolen the vehicle will play the song "Bad Boys". This special spe-cial car can be used for all patrol. pa-trol. Pleasant Grove uses it for four hour patrol by city officers. Chief Paul said all the officers want to drive it. So far it has had two hits on stolen plates. It picks up Amber Alerts also. Every thing the vehicle picks up is recorded and these are saved on a data base and can be used for up to six months after the license was recorded. They can read from the sides, front, back and top of the car at the same time. The new car's equipment can read license plates at speeds up to 100 mph. The out-dated license li-cense plate numbers are kept on file for six months. When in use, a voice comes on and tells the officer driving the police vehicle ve-hicle what the offense is. The State of Utah has several sev-eral of these vehicles, Chief Paul said. He also explained that they have offered to use it to help surrounding cities with their problems, too. Chief Paul also noted that this car does not have the most brand new technology but it is . -r-er- : - - r .i., i YY5 ' - , I,-., , !., ! quite advanced. His department uses it every day and will send officers with it to help other cities cit-ies if reeded. Chief Paul noted, "The state wishes every city had one of these vehicles." He also added that this same technology could be used at city entrances and exits ex-its and this would be a big help to police, if it is feasible. Most arrests made are for expired license plates. Chief Paul explained. The officer will signal the suspected car to stop and give them a ticket and check for DUI, etc., as well. There are red and blue lights on the front and rear of each car. The chief also pointed out that Federal is the name of the company that makes these The new car 's equipment can read license plates at speeds up to 100 mph. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times additions for police cars. He added that they will be getting another car soon. In discussing future needs, Chief Paul said that the city police department went into the police car lease program a couple of years ago where cars are replaced every two years. They also use Ford Explorers. Ex-plorers. The city police motor cycles cy-cles are from Harley Davidson, David-son, Chief Paul stated. |