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In 2017 we had a new police chief who got us, finally, a whole of new patrol cars. Nine of them, all at one time!

When they arrived, instead of having our local city shop mechanic get them ready for us, we had them prepped at an official
and professional cop car outfitting business near Tacoma; it was called Systems for Public Safety. They had the new cars shipped
from the car factory and then they added all of the radios and lights and sirens and electronics and front bumper push bars and
prisoner partition cage and rifle racks and graphics and everything, all to their customer’s specifications. Pretty cool.

Because they outfitted several hundred cars per year they had it down to a fine art, including putting all the electronics in one
place – in the back in a special box- and not under the hood where the wiring and fuses and relays would get grimy and dirty.
It was a thing of beauty:

Historically, our previously equipped cars had lights and radio and siren wires tapped into existing fuse boxes and also there
would be some in-line fuses wired in random places and it was all usually scattered under the hood and in the trunk and trying
to diagnose a problem when one inevitably happened was a total nightmare. Plus we had several different city shop mechanics
over the years and each one had different ideas and methods about how to best wire in all the new electronics, with varying
standards and degrees of success.