Hummers to beef up police booze patrol

[Rufus®]

POLICE will hit the streets in five custom built Hummers as part of a new assault on alcohol-fuelled violence.

The vehicles will be loaned to Victorian police by Hummer and could be on the streets within five weeks.

It follows another fatal weekend of late-night violence at city night spots, in which a 24-year-old man was killed in a brawl outside the Queensbridge Hotel and another man had his jugular slashed with a glass, the Herald Sun reports.

Hummers to beef up police booze patrol | NEWS.com.au

Woot, not quite sure why they need hummers?! and I wonder how long before they're in APC's? lol

[Pub247]

i can see a lot of money spent on fuel hummers arent exactly known for they're economy

[andyman]

arnt they like 11L/100km didnt i read

[TVR-190]

get a proper car,like a chevy suburban, when they pull someone over the person will be thinking the feds are after them.

[Rufus®]

arnt they like 11L/100km didnt i read

not sure on the exact figures, but i think it's somewhere around that!

[CANYONERO]

just what cops need, because they dont use enough testosterone as it is.......

[ucwepn]

Wow lol what a great city car.
epic fail

[Cobez]

Idiots. What a great idea. Good to see our tax dollars are going to such undeed extravagant cars and the fuel for them too Yep, i'll sleep heaps better tonight now.



Absoloutely rediculous. Just use bloody Range Rovers if you want a luxury street patrol car for the city. Hummers are uneeded and a waste of money. But, the Victoria Police force seem to have all the ideas

[badaz]

get a proper car,like a chevy suburban, when they pull someone over the person will be thinking the feds are after them.

Thats only in the USA the local Feds dont have them.

[adamc11]

What a waste of money... how are hummers in the city going to reduce alcohol fuelled violence... they'll run the person down?... Put more cops in the city in normal cars and more on foot.

[naf33n]

looks like a H3 hummer, its only a 5 cylinder, whoop de do,


why dont they get a H2, there the best fun to drive, everyone just looks,

or better yet a H1

[Pimpn1]

looks like a H3 hummer, its only a 5 cylinder, whoop de do,


why dont they get a H2, there the best fun to drive, everyone just looks,

or better yet a H1

or better yet dont get one at all :P

[1991_Vn2nV]

Idiots. What a great idea. Good to see our tax dollars are going to such undeed extravagant cars and the fuel for them too Yep, i'll sleep heaps better tonight now.



Absoloutely rediculous. Just use bloody Range Rovers if you want a luxury street patrol car for the city. Hummers are uneeded and a waste of money. But, the Victoria Police force seem to have all the ideas

WTF man, the hummers are being loaned to the police by Hummer. They're not buying them. Plus they only use 13L per 100km which is not that bad. Less than any of the V8's.

[naf33n]

or better yet dont get one at all :P

go drive a H2 then tell me you dont want one

[minux]

What a waste of money... how are hummers in the city going to reduce alcohol fuelled violence... they'll run the person down?... Put more cops in the city in normal cars and more on foot.

Erm, you do know the Vic police force are being given these cars right?

[Reaper]

Idiots. What a great idea. Good to see our tax dollars are going to such undeed extravagant cars and the fuel for them too Yep, i'll sleep heaps better tonight now.

Uhhh... Aren't they on loan from GMH???
Don't know what difference they will make to the police but Holden obviously see them as great advertising.

Reaper

[Skooby]

I assume it would only be PORS (Public Order Riot Squad) who will use these vehicles anyways. They don't do anyting anyways, just give them another reason not to get out of the car.

[VSIIISU]

Slightly OT (off topic) I've seen H3 hummer I think being marked as a Q-car (quiet car) pulling someone on the road the other day. Was a dark coloured, most likely black H3 with a female coppa booking some bloke.

Talk about governments with fat bank accounts and free lunches

[BullittSV6]

They should get some Saleen Mustangs over, get them all kitted up like Barricade including "To Punish and Enslave"...



That would stop me speeding...unless of course I was in a certain Camaro...