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RIDE.
RECENTLY THAT STATE
PATROLLING THE
HIGHWAYS IN A DIFFERENT
WE WERE CURIOUS
CRUISERS, AND WENT TO
HEADQUARTERS FOR
REPORTER ANDREW
FROM SCITUATE, WITH
FIVE.
IT'S OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN
WITH THE NEW FOR RHODE
ISLAND STATE POLICE. I WENT
TO POLICE TO FIND OUT WHY
THEY DECIDED TO UPGRADE TO
NEW CRUISERS AFTER TWO
STATE POLICE ARE REVVING UP
EYEWITNESS NEWS CAMERAS
GOT A FIRST LOOK AT THE
BRAND NEW VEHICLES AT
STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
the road are the performance is
driving before."
TROOPERS HAD BEEN DRIVING
IN 2011, FORD STOPPED MAKING
THE CARS AND CLOSED THEIR
about
20 years now, so we were forced
come up with a new vehicle."
RESEARCH AND TESTING,
POLICE CHOSE THE 2012 CHEVY
CHARGER AND FORD
INTERCEPTOR,
impressed
decided to go with. Based on a
and performance."
OF THE VEHICLE THEY TESTED,
THE CAPRICE SCORED FIRST
FOR SIZE AND BRAKING. WHEN
LEAVES THE OLD CARS IN THE
standstill and
somebody goes by them at 95
miles
up
things
CAPRICE HAS 10 AIR BAGS
INSTEAD OF THE OLD CAR'S
troopers
most
important thing to us."
ARE EXPECTED TO BE PHASED
OUT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
WILL FULLY IMPLEMENT THEIR
NEW LINE OF 20 VEHICLES
NEXT MONTH. WITH THE
NEWSROOM ANDREW
ADAMSON EWN.
(S)
EYEWITNESS NEWS IS
TEAMING UP WITH THE