do you want gaurds chasing idiots around over 100mph in your area? police chases are a crazy idea. what happens when they catch up to them, ask them to pull over?

Unfortunately the police have to have vehicles that can match those used by the people they are chasing. It’s why a Jag was the thing to have in ’60s London if you aspired to being a bit if a gangster. It wasn’t only for the status, mainly it was because if you had one, it was a certainty that you could outrun anything the police had at the time. Seemed like a bad move for the Gardai not to take the BMW offer, but that’s only my opinion.

@ Nikolas, quite right. And when you think back to the 80′s the Gardaí were driving 2.5ltr Ppels when everyone else was driving 1.4-1.6ltr cars. Now the Gardaí are driving 1.8ltr diesel family cars. It’s a tad Irish…

Parts are covered under warranty!

BMW approached the Irish government is 2011 and offered them brand new police specials for the same cost that they purchase ford mondeos. The government said no, we can’t been seen to have our gardai driving BMWs during a recession. It would give our the wrong impression.
Then this year BMW are changing their 1200 RT motorbikes with new engine designs. They now have loads of old model 1200RT in stock and again they offered the Gardai any number of police special motorbikes at the same cost as a Honda Deville, basically half the price. Again the cops management said no. What the hell is wrong with them? Cutting if their nose to spite the face.

When Bmw were changing the 3series, the guards were offered them at a price lower than a money. The offer was rejected cos ‘the guards couldn’t be seen driving BMWs in a recession’. Nothing about cost effectiveness!

money should be mondeo.

you got there before me!!!

The OPW are responsible for purchasing the Garda fleet, so maybe a bit of the old green eyed monster from them

It will only take a politian to make us believe FORD is Better than a BMW cos we ejits vote for them..

And how much did all the 2012 Toyota Avensis cost them??

Nk doubt the commissioner will be flicking through the brochure as if it’s the latest penthouse but sadly he has been told to cut 94 million from the Garda budget . At present thousands of cars are to be decommissioned that were purchase during the boom. They have over 300k on the clock and will be flogged off at auctions for parts or just written off. The commissioner will not be replacing the cars and the minister has indicated more closedowns in Garda stations next year.

There will parts of Ireland where you are on your own when it comes to defending crime as the nearest Garda will be an hour away . To make matters worse their is no money for weapons and ammunition and on any given night in the whole Capitol city only two detectives are armed in case of a major armed robbery. Many of the guns etc are getting old and also no need replacing and again it’s not in the budget .

The final nail in that coffin of course is the Gardai themselves that won’t be replaced as they resign and retire .

So a new sexy BMW police car is only a dream for the average Garda while we wallow in this recession and watch crime rise .

the regional guys use Volvo v70′s . the traffic corps got some unmarked 3 series 5series and foresters a while back..

Brilliant!!

Nice idea, but I think you’re drifting to tinfoil hat territory. The German police forces don’t even use BMWs exclusively themselves ( they have Porsches for the Autobahns ), so if a German car company can’t force their own country’s forces to use their and only their product, I can’t see them being able to do it in other countries. Similar things do happen with military equipment though, Greece is particularly bitter at an agreement they have that forces them ( they claim ) to by German military equipment at uncompetitive prices…