Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) Chief Sheriff Kevin McMahill delivered his 2025 State of the Division handle on Tuesday. Throughout his handle, he introduced that his division is getting a fleet of 10 Cybertrucks.
Curiously, final month, at first of the brand new yr, a Cybertruck blast occurred exterior the Trump Lodge in Las Vegas. Except for the unhappy incident, the sturdiness and energy of the Tesla Cybertruck’s chrome steel physique got here into focus.
Nonetheless, Sherriff Kevin McMahill clarified that the Las Vegas Metro PD ordered its Cybertrucks earlier than the Trump Lodge blast.
In accordance with the Sheriff, the LVMPD goes to get a fleet of 10 Cybertrucks. These Cybertrucks are donated by a ‘beneficiant particular person’ whose identify was not revealed throughout the presentation.
Since these Cybertrucks are donated to the Las Vegas Metro Police, the acquisition doesn’t influence the division’s basic finances. Tesla Cybertrucks are additionally low on upkeep being an electrical automobile and having a inflexible physique and total structure.
LVMPD goes to get two varieties of Cybertrucks so as to add to its fleet of custom-made police automobiles — a patrol and a SWAT model.
Because the LVMPD Sheriff introduced the acquisition of the Tesla Cybertruck fleet, the presentation display screen confirmed the patrolling model (picture above) and the SWAT model (see beneath).
The patrolling model of the Cybertruck is close to completion. The SWAT variant goes to take a few months to finish because the Sheriff gave an replace on the event of those automobiles. Each of those variants can be bulletproof Cybertrucks (glasses included).
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Above: Idea picture of the LVMPD Cybertruck SWAT automobile. Credit score: Sheriff Kevin McMahill / LVMPD
Here is what the Sheriff mentioned in his handle in regards to the LVMPD Cybertruck fleet (video beneath):
After which a little bit bit of excellent information for you, these bada** machines — we’ve ordered 10 of them — and so they didn’t come out of our finances once more — they got here out of a really beneficiant donation from a person.
By the way in which, we ordered this earlier than the Trump Tower — Okay. However I’ll let you know that in — why do we would like this stuff — no 1 is the cop inside is gonna be secure it doesn’t matter what — they’ll cease bullets — they’re additionally an amazing recruitment device for us.
We’re gonna have the most important fleet of Tesla police vans that exists within the nation and it didn’t influence our basic finances.
In truth we have now a few people which are flying all the way down to California I consider Thursday or Friday to test in on the standing of this stuff as we get them.
Think about once we’re out and we’re charging this stuff and these officers are going to be approached by folks everywhere in the neighborhood to see this factor. It’s a possibility for that injecting humanity to extend our partnership, to extend understanding, to develop relationships — all these issues that we’ve talked about.
That’s what the entire is behind this stuff as nicely.
After which this one is a SWAT automobile and that’s going to be a month or two behind that however it’s one other armored model of a Tesla truck that our SWAT crew who’s actually finest within the nation will be capable of deploy with nice regularity to maintain the women and men secure which are on the market doing this work.
At CloudWorld 2023, Oracle Company showcased its specialised police patrol Cybertruck idea. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison mentioned throughout his keynote that this next-gen police patrol automotive made out of a Cybertruck is coming quickly.
Within the mid of final yr, I obtained an e mail from Oracle Corp that the finalized Cybertruck could be unveiled in September 2024. Nonetheless, the venture has been dealing with surprising delays and there was no additional updates as of this writing.
Above: LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill – 2025 State of the Division handle (full speech).
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Featured picture: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division.
Observe: This text was revealed earlier on Tesla Oracle. Writer: Iqtidar Ali.
