Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars

An anonymous reader writes: Australia's New South Wales police department has added a pair of new cars to their fleet that are going to be very hard to outrun, a McLaren 650S and an Aston Martin Vanquish Volante. The vehicles aren't going to be used on the job, but as a promotional tool to help raise money for the families of fallen police. "These sponsorship arrangements are designed to promote community engagement with NSW Police. This agreement is designed to promote tomorrow's Police Legacy Wall to Wall ride and celebrate 100 years of Women in Policing," a police spokesperson said in a statement.

Comments

Don't worry.

[DingerX]

I'm sure these are the last of the V8 Interceptors the Australians will buy. They'll get used eventually for that purpose.

Missing the correct question here

[Coisiche]

The correct question should be: by any chance is one of the officers assigned to drive it called Max Rockatansky?

Reasons

[blueshift_1]

We need these because of... reasons.

Australian police get super fast cars

[MrKaos]

but Australians don't get a super fast internet

Even dubbed in American

[argStyopa]

Still not better than the last of the V8 Interceptors.

Re:How long will it take

[tompaulco]

Also as a result of not shooting everyone in the face, the police in NZ/AUS are generally not hated. It makes a pretty big difference. Where in the US the feeling is that they are out to get you. And my own experience is that they probably are [in the US].

The concern that police are out to get you in the U.S. is not due to police shooting everybody in the face. I personally have lived here 45 years and have never been shot in the face by a policeman. I am much more concerned about getting shot in the face by a criminal than by a policeman. The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals. Even so, the number of criminals that are killed by police in a given year compared to the number of total arrests is meaninglessly small. However, every time it happens, the media makes such a big deal about it that everybody starts hating the cops and apparently people as far away as Australia are led to believe that the chances of being killed by a cop are on the order of the same as the chances of winning the lottery. If you are not a criminal, your chances of being killed by a cop are much lower than your chances of winning the lottery.