GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – It’s an impressive looking vehicle inside and out.
The Green Bay Police Department has a new command vehicle and allowed WTAQ to take a look inside the big machine.
The multi-purpose vehicle will be used as a command post in the field helping them in SWAT situations or any big event happening in the city, like the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon or 4th of July celebrations.
Lt. Keith Gering says they got the used vehicle from the Alexandria, Virginia Police Department and picked it up in Ohio on November 2, 2016.
“So Alexandria basically designed the vehicle which is perfect for what we needed it for. It was a multi-purpose vehicle versus having something that was either a SWAT vehicle or a negotiator vehicle or just a command post.”
To the average eye it may just look like a very large, RV type vehicle but to the police department it’s invaluable to fighting crime.
“So there’s five hard work stations in here with computers we can use. There’s a laptop station here…printer, fax machine. It does have hard line phone capability, that if you want to plug into hard line, we can use the phones otherwise there’s a telular system. There’s switches we can flip inside the bus that can transition the phones to cellular service,” Gering said.
A new command vehicle, similar to the one they purchased, would normally cost $750,000 but they acquired it at a much reduced rate.
Watch the video above to take a peek inside.
