CHiPs will add a new fleet...

[Staga]

Finnish highway police had Porsche 911s already in sixties but now they have just one Jaguar S Type-R (+boatloads of VWs, Fords, Mazdas etc).
Well maybe they don't have that Jag anymore; they were chasing a motorcycle with it and crashed the car.
I bet the driver won't drive anything else but Nissans from now on ;D

[ASTAC]

Overly expensive cars for the police is a major incident of what we call in the Navy "Fraud, waste, and abuse"

Though this looks like it's not true.

Every department has some fancy car that they confiscated and painted up in their colors. That is what seems to be in that picture.

From another site:

The California Highway Patrol is weaning itself off its fleet of now-discontinued Chevrolet Camaro pursuit cars, switching to new Porsche 987 Boxsters. As a spokesman for the CHP bizarrely put it, “The Camaros were at the end of their useful life, and were never able to be used fully given that CHP officers are prohibited from wearing mullets while on duty.” (Apparently, droll humor isn’t unlearned during baton-fighting exersizes.) An initial order for 200 Porsche Boxsters will be fulfilled by the end of 2005, with the majority of units being placed in service in high-enforcement areas, like Irwindale. (PS: Check out those Brembos! These guys mean business.) [Update: Man, we’re dumb. We so wanted to believe that this was true, that we got burned. Apparently Mr. Nowwegotcha has a better sense of humor than we thought. The mullet joke was too good to be true. Yeesch. The photo is of the CHP’s show car, likely taken at the 2005 Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance.]

[mosgood]

Originally posted by ASTAC
Overly expensive cars for the police is a major incident of what we call in the Navy "Fraud, waste, and abuse"

Though this looks like it's not true.

Every department has some fancy car that they confiscated and painted up in their colors. That is what seems to be in that picture.

From another site:

The California Highway Patrol is weaning itself off its fleet of now-discontinued Chevrolet Camaro pursuit cars, switching to new Porsche 987 Boxsters. As a spokesman for the CHP bizarrely put it, “The Camaros were at the end of their useful life, and were never able to be used fully given that CHP officers are prohibited from wearing mullets while on duty.” (Apparently, droll humor isn’t unlearned during baton-fighting exersizes.) An initial order for 200 Porsche Boxsters will be fulfilled by the end of 2005, with the majority of units being placed in service in high-enforcement areas, like Irwindale. (PS: Check out those Brembos! These guys mean business.) [Update: Man, we’re dumb. We so wanted to believe that this was true, that we got burned. Apparently Mr. Nowwegotcha has a better sense of humor than we thought. The mullet joke was too good to be true. Yeesch. The photo is of the CHP’s show car, likely taken at the 2005 Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance.]

Usually those fancy/confiscated cars are used mostly to impress and establish repore with kids.