The Anchorage Police Department says it needs new cars. The police department told Assembly members during a Public Safety Committee meeting on Wednesday that the fleet is in such poor condition that it is impacting officers’ ability to do their jobs.
Capt. Josh Nolder told members the industry standard for when police cars are retired is 10 years or 100,000 miles, and in some places, it is less than six years or 80,000 miles.
Additionally, Nolder said the department has roughly 595 vehicles in its fleet. Of that number, 16% have over 150,000 miles, 47% over 100,00 miles, and 56% are over 10 years old. “Based on what I’ve been told by MOA fleet, it was about 15 years ago that their budget was severely reduced. It was supposed to be temporary. It wasn’t temporary, and it’s never come back,” Nolder said.
“We’re having a lot of officer downtime trying to find workable vehicles. We’re having vehicles that do break down unfortunately going to calls. We’re having a lot of time lost as officers are having to switch out to a different vehicle. The vehicles are using more fuel because they’re less fuel efficient, or costing — we’re having a lot of cost for replacements of engines and transmissions,” Nolder said.
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