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Hewitt council reviews plan to let officers take assigned patrol vehicles home
Summary
At an Aug. 11 workshop the Hewitt Police Chief outlined a personally assigned vehicle program the department says would extend vehicle life, aid recruitment and cut replacement costs; council signaled support but took no formal vote.
At a workshop meeting on Aug. 11, 2025, the Hewitt Police Chief presented a personally assigned vehicle program that would allow full‑time, non‑probation sworn officers to take a single marked patrol vehicle home and use it for authorized police duties.
The program, the chief said, would assign each participating officer one vehicle "they will drive every day" and "they can drive it home. They can drive it to work," which the department argues will reduce idling, lower maintenance costs and extend vehicle life.
The city already obtained additional patrol vehicles after switching orders from Chevrolet Tahoes to Ford Explorers, the chief said, which produced six patrol vehicles for the cost of three Tahoes and left the department with a fleet sufficient to begin the program. "We do have enough vehicles at this point to move forward with the program," the chief said.
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