Lamborghini Gallardo Police Car

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For the first time, Italian State Police (Polizia di Stato) will use a Lamborghini Gallardo Police Car.

The supercar, in State Police colours, with a siren and flashing lights on the roof, has been donated by the House of Sant’Agata Bolognese to the State Police on the occasion of its 152nd anniversary, held in the customary setting of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome on the 14th, 15th and 16th May 2004.

The Gallardo Police Car will be used by the traffic police (Polizia Stradale) during emergencies and alarm situations on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway, also under the powers of the special safety operative which is already being employed along this tract of highway.The Gallardo will also be used in first aid activities – thanks to its special defibrillator equipment, which performs electrocardiograms and automatic diagnoses of arterial pressure and the presence of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood, as well as the transportation of plasma and human organs for transplants.Apart from being fitted with medical equipment, the vehicle will also have advanced technological apparatus’ for receiving and transmitting information and images relating to particularly critical situations, such as road traffic accidents, fires and other disaster situations.All this will be made possible thanks to the use of other sophisticated equipment on board the “Lamborghini Polizia”, for example, the satellite navigational system with GSM microtelephone, the Provida system which records violations and sends images in real time, direct connection to the Police database as well as the Elsag “Autodetector” system for number plate recognition and VHF-Polizia equipment.The use of The Gallardo, which has a 10 cylinder, 5 litre, 500 hp engine and equipped with a full aluminium body, will also be possible in bad weather and road conditions due to its high performance with permanent four-wheel drive and special “Sottozero” snow tyres developed by Pirelli for Lamborghini vehicles.

The story - with pictures - can be foundhere.
 
Old news , it was in the GT4 forum before.
 
That looks like it was run through photoshop (and rather poorly so).
 
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Not a photoshop.
 
Haha it would really suck to have those in America. But it would be nice to see a corvette or viper get chased by one of those lambos.
 
Why? The chase wouldn't last very long.
 
There is this letter printed in issue 124 January 2004 of BBC TopGear magazine.

Thin Red Line
Driving up the M1 in Northhamptonshire at 7pm October 31, I wasn't surprised to see flashing blue lights in the mirror about a mile behind me. I moved into the middle lane and slowed. As it drew closer I saw read, literally, as I realised the car was a modena red Ferrari 360 complete with private plate. Now, surely there are dozens of fast cars that the police could choose, with plenty of space for all their kit, that can cover motorway miles just as effectively as a Ferrari, and at a third of the price. I firmly believe traffic police do a good job. They often clean up other peoples mess for small reward and often put themselves in situations on our behalf, but is operating a ferarri really necessary? Am I alone in thinking this is an outrageous misuse of tax players' money? if so, I'm sorry for this rant. If not, can someone please try and justify this extravagance?
Richard Smith [/B]

I don't know whether to believe this letter or not. If someone can expand on it please do.
 
Well using the Lambo as an example, it was donated so it isn't really a waste of tax payers money. But I think it isn't necessarily a waste of money anyway, alot of fast cars can cover ground as quickly as a Ferrari but not all can stick to the ground at that sort a speed. Plus I don't think it's the best vehicle to use a fleet of for highway patrol but for emergancies and stuff I think it's great to have a couple of really fast cars.
 
Yeah, that way we can have a one-billionth of a percent of a chance to sit in the driver's seat.

I really doubt more than a couple officers drive this. And I highly doubt it will log many miles. It's practically useless.

It seems like it has 500 pounds of special equipment in it.
 
^Agreed...
 
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