New and latest Lancer Evolution Police Car

Last week, the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) announced that they will be taking delivery of 25 units of Mitsubishi's 4-door fire breathing Lancer Evolution sedan as their new pursuit and VIP escort vehicle. PDRM is not alone in this purchase. UK's Southern Yorkshire police will also be taking delivery of their new Evos as part of their Road Crime Unit.


PDRM's Lancer Evolution high speed pursuit units will serve alongside their standard Proton Waja (Impian in Europe) patrol cars. Besides the Waja, a few units of Satria GTis and not too long ago, the ridiculously fast wagon Volvo 850-T5 were also used as pursuit vehicles.



The South Yorkshire Police in UK are already operating an existing fleet of previous generation Lancer Evolutions for their Road Crime Unit.

UK police vehicles are fitted with a PNC (police national computer) terminal (pictured above) that allows them to connect to the police department's database to retrieve any required information of the suspect's vehicle. An ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera continuously scan vehicle's number plates for suspicious backgrounds. It is unclear what equipment levels will be fitted to the PDRM Lancer Evolutions, but all the existing Proton Waja patrol units are equipped with a notebook computer. It's connectivity and usage is unclear though.

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