POLICE CAR

SECONDS ON POLICE CAR

• IN1909 DETROIT POLICE commissioner Frank Croul had to buy the city 's first police car, a Packard, with his own money. the idea of using cars to carry out police patrols was radical in the city wouldn't release the fund.

• THE WORLD'S First police car took to the road in 1899 in the city of Akron,Ohio, USA. it was electric-powered.

• ITALIAN STATE POLICE have Lamborghini Gallardo, given to them Sant'agata firm. it was most used to transport urgent medical supplies and human organs, but dose traffic duty too on the salerno-reggio calabria highway.

• JAM SANDWICH became popular as slang for police car in the mid-1970s, when force started using white car an orange strip down the side. the prase 'paddywagon' was first used in 19th-century America' when Irish immigrant made up the bulk of the police force.