The LED Light Bars are much less maintenance and look sharp. LED's are also a lot brighter and more visible than Halogen Lights. The lower profile of LED's makes them look better on the car and are more steathly for traffic enforcement.

This is made by TOMAR electronics. They have been around for a long time. These strobe bars were way brighter than any others I used to see, but I don't hink they caught on because they were expensive and funny looking. Tomar does now make several LED models.

I especially like this "Brick" lightbar. I never saw them until I visited Mesa, Arizona. Now I'm wondering how various departments decide to use these instead of the flat-and-trim luggage-rack-looking LED lightbars.

Regardless... Yep, that cop car looks pretty good!

Looks pretty good.

Well i am on N.O.P.D we went with blue beacuse our halogen(red and blue) lightbars ware highmaintanance and the led bars were cheaper.
my car is still with red and blue thogh...........

And who exactly is your President? One nation you know... You may not like him but he is still the President.

Yea they do look better and so do the uniforms. Are the patches and badges the same? I think they should have enhacned the New Orleans logo though, make it more attractive.

old unit i take it?

Thanks, changed it.

This is actually Louisiana DPS Police--Weights and Standards. Both DPS Police and State Police are part of the Dept. of Public Safety (http://www.dps.louisiana.gov/)

And that's reason enough for you to use that spelling then? Nevermind, I don't really want to argue it.

Well, Jack, I understand there is only ONE Internet but unfortunately your President doesn't and calls it the "Internets".... and "Moran" is the way one of his followers spelled "moron" on a protest sign against Cindy Sheehan. The moron couldn't even spell moron when he was calling somebody else that name.

So there.

I think that what we can all agree on here is that the number of metropolitan police departments has been slowly, but steadily increasing, if you count some of the smaller counties and cities that have done so. However, there are not too many.

Quote by anonymous:
"Actually, the purpose of leaving comments is to leave ACCURATE INFORMATION. Some people seem to think that when they read something on the Internets, it must be true. Like the moran who said all Texas cars must now be black and white."

I though there was only one internet, not "internets", and that "moran" was spelled "moron."

Actually, the purpose of leaving comments is to leave ACCURATE INFORMATION. Some people seem to think that when they read something on the Internets, it must be true. Like the moran who said all Texas cars must now be black and white.

The next thing you know, everybody will be running around saying that all major metropolitan areas of the US will be combining into metro police forces.

I just want to hear you say it: "A FEW cities have opted to combine into Metro agencies"... go on, say it.

Ok anonymous the purpose of this comments section is to discuss the photos. Not to argue about your defintion of many. Time to move on.

I'm going to quote you here: "you are correct that in many large metropolitan areas, cities and counties are combining their departments to create a metro police force"

Then you name 3 or 4 agencies? That is your definition of MANY?

People can talk all they want about combining departments but once the politicians realize they'll no longer have any Indians, the idea goes down the tubes.

Las Vegas, Nashville, Indianapolis is the process, Savannah, GA. In the St. Louis and Atlanta areas there is a county police department and the sheriff only runs the courts and jails. In this day and age of tight budgets I imagine you will see many other cities and counties in metro areas pool their resources over the next decade.

JW, you are full of it.... there are NOT MANY metro cities that are or have combined... In fact, without thinking, I can only count about 5 major metro areas that have done that... and in the scheme of things, that is NOT a lot.

Anonymous you are correct that in many large metropolitan areas, cities and counties are combining their departments to create a metro police force. However there is usually still a county sheriff that runs the jail and courts. In most states sheriff's are delegated by law to provide these services.

I spoke with a deputy from the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff Department during my latest trip to NOLA. She confirmed that the Criminal Sheriff Department runs the jails, and the Civil Sheriff Department handles real estate issues. Both departments will be combined within the next four years according to her.