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New Castle Police Acquire Armored Vehicle
Or, more accurately: New Castle Police Pointlessly Acquire Armored Vehicle
The substandard site for the town's newspaper allows only four free pageviews per month, so browse at your peril!
Meanwhile, here's the lead-in:
The New Castle Police Department has become the only municipal police department in Lawrence County to own an armored vehicle.
The department purchased a 2007 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle and is converting it into an armored vehicle to protect the Special Emergency Response Team when it enters scenes of shootouts, stakeouts, hostage situations and rescue operations.
It has been painted black, lettered with the New Castle police insignia and is being prepared with emergency lights, siren, a public address system and a department logo. The seats inside will be replaced with bench seating to accommodate most of the city's SERT team members.
The commemorative number "44" is marked on the vehicle in memory of Lt. Nathaniel Akins, a city police officer who died July 7, 2016. His number was added because the vehicle "is big, and it's our protector," Chief Bobby Salem said.
The department purchased a 2007 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle and is converting it into an armored vehicle to protect the Special Emergency Response Team when it enters scenes of shootouts, stakeouts, hostage situations and rescue operations.
It has been painted black, lettered with the New Castle police insignia and is being prepared with emergency lights, siren, a public address system and a department logo. The seats inside will be replaced with bench seating to accommodate most of the city's SERT team members.
The commemorative number "44" is marked on the vehicle in memory of Lt. Nathaniel Akins, a city police officer who died July 7, 2016. His number was added because the vehicle "is big, and it's our protector," Chief Bobby Salem said.
I'm not aware of any local shootouts, stakeouts, or hostage situations in this town of 23K over the past 14 years or so that justify military armor, but I'm sure that they want to be ready if the neighboring town of 7K people decides to mobilize its ground forces and invade us...
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is probably to have the coolest vehicle around to escort the basketball team into town should they win another D7 or state championship.
