Thought everyone would get a kick out of this. While taking some pictures of our Las Vegas meet, a Las Vegas Police F150 rolled over to check out our trucks. We asked him to pose the truck in the picture but departmental policy prohibits them from posing in organized pictures. The officers were cool though and allowed us to take a couple as they slowly drove by. Coolest police vehicle I've seen, even had a Rollbak cover

 

thats awesome do have the rest of the pics up from your meet?

 

uggg! Did they say if it had anything special under the hood?

 

Probably had a GT 500 engine, lol.

In all seriousness, it probably has a 4.6.

 

cool pic, police around here have two new 09's xlts...been meaning to get some pics of them myself.

 

It was the 5.4, nothing special that they told us

Fordfanatic101-I'll be probably be posting the pictures in the West forum soon

 

haha, cant pose, but they were driving so slow, the white letters on the tires werent even smudged by the camera..

why do the police need a pickup truck that get 14 mpg? cant they drive more fuel efficient vehicles? or is this the crown vic recovery truck?

 

Hahaha, yeah they even asked us "was that good enough?"

Las Vegas's Police department is fairly large because it covers all of Clark County, not just Las Vegas so they have every vehicle imaginable. The F150's are usually driven by Sergeants(in this case) and officers that work in the rural areas of Clark County. The F150's are usually taken home and officer drives them to the smaller cities outside of Las Vegas, such as Pahrump, Laughlin, etc. They also use Expeditions as K-9 units. They have Dodge Rams too, but after talking to a lot of my department contacts they are phasing them out because of the small interiors(back seat). They have several unmarked F250's that the SWAT team uses and almost any vehicle you can think of they have as an undercover unit. Just the other day, SWAT was serving a search warrant on a home where I work. They had a Hummer H2 with 24" rims....and LED red/blue lights in the back window & front visor

 

alright cool i will be looking forward to it

 

the probably confiscated the hummer

 

NEat pics dude

 

IIRC the police package was an XLT with the 5.4L, 3.55 gears, LSD, and 4x4, then was painted what ever the department wanted. My old job had it's own personal garage that outfitted police vehicles for extra cash, and they did about 5 of these for local PD.

 

That's almost always where that kind of vehicle comes from. Usually they don't ever have to buy vehicles for the true undercover work- have a good enough supply of confiscated ones, at least in a metropolitan area. They have and use everything under the sun- stuff that certainly doesn't look like a police vehicle, but they're definitely outfitted like one. You're not gonna SEE one trace of it though.

 

thats awesome lol havent seen those around my area yet

 

My local PD has an excursion w/6.0 powerstroke in it and the next town over (westlake) used to have a couple yukon denali's as police cruisers. Haven't seen the denalis in a while, they may have gotten rid of them.