The Acworth Board of Aldermen will buy three new police vehicles.
A 2018 Dodge Chargers will be bought from Akins Ford Dodge Jeep Chrysler at the state contract price of almost $23,702 each.
The three cars that are on order are replacement vehicles in the patrol fleet with no increase in the size of the fleet, said Acworth Police Chief Wayne Dennard. Identified as potentially being unreliable, the three 2011 cars will remain in service until the new ones arrive this fall.
Some of the equipment in the older vehicles will be used in the new cars, including radios, sirens and dash cams. Vehicles that no longer are needed by the city are sold on an online government surplus auction site.
Some new cars were purchased last year, Dennard said, and new cars are planned by monitoring the condition of the vehicles in the fleet.
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