The tiny town of Granada in southeastern Colorado has two more patrol vehicles and two mobile data terminals thanks to a recent donation by the Loveland Police Department.
Loveland police Lt. Bob Shaffer said Granada officers visited the department twice over the past three or four weeks to pick up the decommissioned equipment.
In a letter dated Sept. 9, representatives of the town of fewer than 700 people wrote to Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh, City Manager Steve Adams and the City Council, thanking them for the two 2011 Chevy Caprice patrol cars and mobile data terminals.
“They are already being put to good use,” the letter says. “What a wonderful act of kindness and example of departments and communities sharing and caring for one another.”
Shaffer said the donation of gear to other departments “doesn’t really happen that often,” though he remembered occasions when equipment had donated to the town of Campo, Colo. as well as law enforcement in Guatemala.
He said vehicles are typically decommissioned every 12 years or every 100,000 miles. The department received a request for aid from Granada the same day the donated cars were taken out of service.
As for Granada Police Department chief David Dougherty — who oversees a department of four, including three reserve officers and himself — he hopes the gear will help his team keep their small community safe.
“We had two patrol cars, but one got some bad hail damage and isn’t really operable, so it’s going to help quite a bit,” he said. “This way, our officers can have their own cars.”
As of Friday afternoon, Dougherty said Granada town staffers were working on putting the cars in service, installing the data terminals as well as radar units that Dougherty said were donated by the Colorado State Patrol.
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