I am initially taken aback when visiting Britain to see the cops driving BMWs and Range Rovers. It's hard to imagine any town in our fair state including upmarket foreign vehicles in their annual budgets.

But when you consider that Britain has no auto industry to speak of, the question of loyalty to a domestic brand is moot. Expense is another question.

But even Britain pales by comparison to Italy's Polizia di Stato, or state police, which have three Lamborghini Gallardos to patrol the nation's auto stradas. (Dream on RISP!)

The cars are painted blue and white with a small rack of lights on the roof and "Polizia" blazoned in big letters along the sides.

However, now there are two. One of the Lambos tried to avoid a slow car emerging from a gas station and ended up ploughing into a line of police cars, according to The New York Times.
And it must have been going at a fair clip because one of the cars flipped onto the Lambo's roof!

The officer and his passenger were injured and the front end of the $200,000 car was crushed.

The Polizia di Stato acquired the Lambos last year. Equipment includes a video surveillance camera, GPS, an organ transplant fridge and defibrillator.

Peter C.T. Elsworth