The brand new police boat, an nearly eight meter lengthy Vector 85 Professional with a big cabin and 2×200 horsepower engines, was an enormous step up from an older, open rib.
The boat was already in place in Drøbak in March, earlier than the police launched the information that this was the brand new sort of patrol boat. It was the police boat operators at Follo police station who examined the brand new sort of boat.
However shortly earlier than the summer season holidays begin, the message got here that Follo should lend the brand new patrol boat to the police’s summer season obligation station at Hvaler, writes Police Discussion board. As an alternative, they get to borrow the previous, open boat from Hvaler.
Police station chief Rune Albertsen in Follo justifies the change of boats with summer season vacationers.
– Hvaler is a municipality with an excessive improve in inhabitants in the summertime months, the place the police established a brand new summer season obligation station in 2023, the place the institution was based mostly on an expectation of visibility and presence on the lake past what the devoted boat service within the East police district can ship, he writes in an e-mail to Politiforum.
He additional writes that the administration of GDE Follo/Østfold needs the very best utilization of the tools at hand and has due to this fact determined that the brand new boat, which “supplies the perfect HSE for the crews and provides the perfect impact in every day operations”, shall be situated at Hvaler the place they suppose it will likely be used probably the most.
The brand new patrol boat shall be returned to Follo on 1 September. Then the police’s summer season service station at Hvaler additionally closes for the season.
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2024-06-30 09:05:27