I can tell you this much about police cars. When I started in 87 I had an 85 Dipolmat. The interior had a radio the size of maybe 2 CB radios and a light/siren control below that the size of 1 CB radio. That was it. I was one of the lucky ones because the Division of State Police had recently adopted the policy of NOT removing the AM radio from the dash as had been done for 75 years (or whenever radios became common in cars). So I got to listen to static in the day time on the one station that sort of came in and some music at night. The trunk had a first aid kit from WW2, a rope, a pry bar, a shovel and some flares. That was it. You could fit 3 outlaws in the back seat and one in front and everything was peachy. I had a 357 Smith and a stick and a raincoat and that was about the extent of my equipment.
Fast forward to 2008/9. The cars were tiny little things inside, I think they were Fords, can't remember the model. I was again lucky as I was working DOT at the time and had an E350 Ford van. What was in the cars and my van? At least one radio, light/siren control, the computer for the tickets, laptop, printer, shotgun in rack, cage with a spit shield, radar, radar detector unit, 2 spot light controls, plate reader control and often a CB unit too. The back seat was a tiny space a couple kids could sit in and still bang heir knees on the cage mount. In the trunk (behind the seat in my van) was the actual radio unit, with all the added extra frequency stuff, a first aid kit the size of a medium suitcase, gas mask, PPE equipment, flares, pry bar, ammo, rope, maybe a small shovel, and a mess of other stuff I can't recall. All that in a tiny trunk.
It's no wonder the PO's are all 5'3" tall now. There's no way to fit a full sized person in that little space!
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:35:07 06/04/15.
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