More vehicles for the summit. (but happy Ford tell them to turn it over to the TTPoliceService for their use after the summit. Always believe more authority patroling=less crime. thats if they get off they butt and move around)
green version in Thailand
Govt forks out $22m for 64 SUVs
GEISHA KOWLESSAR and AKILE SIMON | 8:50 pm
Published: March 19th, 2009
A photograph of a Ford 2009 Everest
Sport Utility Vehicle, similar to the
64 which the Government has purchased
to represent part of the escort detail
for the Summit of the Americas.
GEISHA KOWLESSAR and AKILE SIMON | 8:50 pm
The Government has forked out close to $22 million to purchase 64 new Ford 2009 Everest Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) which will represent part of the escort detail for the Summit of the Americas, police source said yesterday.
The source said each vehicle was valued at $350,000.
The SUVs were ordered about a year ago from Ford Motors. The source said the vehicles would escort dignitaries, heads of states and delegates for the three-day event scheduled to take place from April 17 to 19. The vehicles, which were all white, were being outfitted with police sirens and stickers bearing the logo of the T&T Police Service, the source said. Officials at Ford Motors were given a mandate to have the vehicles available to the Police Service by the end of next week, the source added. After the summit, the vehicles will be absorbed into the various units within the Police Service.
On the issue of security plans, acting Police Commissioner James Philbert and Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Edmund Dillon received a report yesterday, detailing possible security challenges, the source said. Philbert and Dillon were in a meeting held for the greater part of yesterday at Police Administration building, Port-of-Spain. “Any challenges will be addressed so as to tighten security measures,” the source said. The source said the report was compiled by each “silver commander” responsible for each of the six “sectors” of the national security plan.
Suv features
Features of the Ford Everest SUV:
• 3.0L turbo diesel engine
• Seven-seater
• Four-wheel drive
• Steel side-intrusion door beams to protect from a side impact
Sectors
The sectors were identified as:
Sector 1— Piarco Airport.
Sector 2—Routes.
Sector 3—Hyatt Regency Hotel and other restricted zones and the Diplomatic Centre.
Sector 4—Venues and accommodation.
Sector 5—Wild Fowl Trust, carded to be visited by spouses of diplomats.
Sector 6—Tobago.
The source said Sector One was headed by Senior Supt Rajendranath Maharaj; Sector Two, Theophilus Cummings; Sector Three, acting ACP Martin Morrain; Sector Four, Senior Supt Eulaine Julius; Sector Five, ASP Cecil Santana; and Sector Six acting ACP Nadir Khan.