Alex Ginzburg

Ken, that photo you are talking about...the SIDE view cut off shot with the magnetic VOLUNTEER sign on it....???? Why even mention that shot, it sucks my friend!

Yup Ken, that's the link I was referring to. thanks and sorry I gave a dead link.

My mistake, go to the "Citizen Patrol Gallery" on the first page, then go to the 2001 meeting on the second page.

Ken
www.policecaronline.com

Go to nacop.org, go about halfway down the page, and you'll see a gallery for the 2001 meeting. It's in there. Can't tell if it's the same car. (There were only 5, so good chance)

Ken
www.policecaronline.com

That's a dead link

I found this picture of a CHP Impala, don't know if it's the same one. Anyways, it's been marked as a "Volunteer" car.

http://www.nacop.org/conf_2001/conf2001cars.html

I was talking with one of the officers at the CHP booth at CA Speedway a few years ago, as they had this Impala on display. They're 2001s and they only had a handfull for testing purposes. Here's an article on the Imapalas

http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/2001/04/14/987221459.html

I think the Volvos are long gone, every guy I talked to hated them. The funny thing is they hated them so much, no one drove them, and they did not acrue mileage and stuck around a lot longer.

The all-white K9 cars have been phased out, they're fully marked black and white now, leaving the Commercial Enforcement units, and some of the Capitol Detail and Equestrian units as the only all white CHP vehicles.

Good find on the impala, I tried hunting it down again after the race and never could find it.

Ken
www.policecaronline.com

Add Dodge Durango SUV to their fleet, I saw one at a Dodge dealership in Shingle Springs, awaiting service, regular black and white unit with Vision Vector lights and quite a bit of gear. I've lived in CA off and on for 30 years and was just there on a business trip. As Greg points out, CHP has used SUVs from what I've seen at least on US 50 (Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe) and along I-80 Auburn to Truckee and up to the NV line for years. Greg is correct on full size Dodge pickups, those are their roadside portable weight units, they are black and white also. Kind of dorky looking but that's what they use. CHP also uses all white "service cars" with gold CHP badge and lettering for at least their K-9 units and maybe for other uses. Supervisors at least the Lt and Capt drive unmarked as I rode a few times with the Fairfield (Solano County) CHP captain in his unmarked CVPI, windshield mounted steady red and small square halogen amber/blue lights on rear shelf. People passed us like crazy on I-80 and he never blinked as CHP rarely uses total unmarked for traffic stops. We would have never gotten to Sacramento for our meeting had he made 22xxx CVC stops! P. Henning, retired AF Chief of Police (Lt Col), Travis AFB, CA. P.S. I really like this web site!

I would like to see more views of this unit.

I did indeed take that photograph at the Victorville station on the way from LA to Las Vegas in....let's see, 2001! That was the only Impala they had, period! I was very lucky to find that one, and will try to scan in a better version of this photo, plus all the other views, if someone is interested. This car at the time was assigned to a female trooper, who, interestingly enough, got in trouble earlier with the garage for putting a red lens on the initially white left spotlight lamp on the front door. It was not CHP regulation, and it was a big deal. Then they added the red spotlight.

This is the Victorville Impala. Victorville is a test car station, and had a volvo also. This vehicle was used for regular patrol.

1st anomynous you like to argue don't you?

This Impala is most likly a supervisor unit, meaning brass like LTs and Captians drive it. It probably has the steady red light mounted in front of the rearview mirror, but it can not just bee seen in this photo. And as far as ALL new units having the new LED lightbars is not true, most stations in Northern Cali have the new lightbars but they are not phasing out the units on Southern Cali yet. In my area we have 2006 CVPI with the Vision on them, I have seen Orange County, Riverside, Temecula, Oceanside, San Diego, and Indio CHP units and not one LED lightbar, EXCEPT on a few Camero Comm. Enforcement units. I have seen new slicktop units, with LED lighting but not the bars.

This is a very nice photo, and Greg you pretty much covered it, nicly done.

Not only are you wrong about CHP only using Crown Victorias but your statement about it being an old picture because it doesn't have the LED light bar that slick tops have makes no sense. If it has a light bar, it is not a slick top, is it?

I believe that is a late model Chevy Impala, which debuted in 1999, so it can't be that old of a picture.

I meant that it was their basic patrol vehicle. Sorry I wasn't clear. I'll be waiting to see if you get any pictures of their new Mustangs.