Mumbai Police : Mumbai Police gets new bulletproof vehicles & bikes

Mumbai: Home minister handed over the keys of over 200 vehicles to the city police, including three armoured vehicles, as part of the modernisation of the force. He also emphasised the need for a helicopter for Mumbai’s cops.
The armoured vehicles cost about Rs 38 lakh each and can shield bullets fired from an advanced AK-47 assault rifle. Two more will be obtained later so that all five regional control centres in the city has its own armoured vehicle.
The other new vehicles include four buses, 20 jeeps, 21 towing cranes, nine light-weight vehicles and 160 motorcycles for patrolling. The total cost of procuring the vehicles is around Rs 4 crore.
City police commissioner D Sivanandan said 12 more buses would arrive in the city to ferry police personnel for patrolling and bandobast. He added that 100 police personnel were being trained to deal with 26/11-like situations in collaboration with security forces in every zone. They were being equipped with latest weapons for this purpose.

“We are training the squads so that they can effectively reply to 26/11-like terror attacks within an hour and send the terrorists back in body bags”, said Sivanandan. Meanwhile, Patil emphasised that there should be a helicopter at the disposal of the police, which would help them reach crisis zones swiftly. The government would try to acquire such a helicopter, he assured, adding that it should not be used by ministers.
Patil said there was a need for a squad with around 100 sniffer dogs and that the city also needed horse-mounted policemen so as to make cops visible on the roads. “Small teams of police officers will be formed and sent to Chicago, China, Israel and England to study the modes of investigation there. This will help us,” he said.
courtesy - mnews.