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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Council Approves Purchase of Armored Rescue Vehicle

Gloucester Township Police get their armored rescue vehicle.

As expected, Gloucester Township Council on Monday approved a resolution authorizing township officials to enter into a contract to purchase an armored rescue vehicle for the Police Department. The measure was approved as part of Council's consent agenda. The vote was unanimous. The township will pay Lenco Industries Inc. $277,986 for the bulletproof police vehicle. Councilman Dan Hutchison defended the controversial vehicle purchase at the conclusion of Monday's meeting. "We as a Council, we as a town owe it to our officers to give them every tool that they can possibly have to possibly prevent one of them from being killed," he said. "It is so worth it to purchase this vehicle." Pittsfield, MA-based Lenco was the lone company to bid for …

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Lauren Burgoon

3:13 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Is there a reason everyone on here can't act like adults and refrain from calling each other names? Cut it out.   more ›

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Armored Rescue Vehicle to Cost Township $277,986

Gloucester Township received only one bid for the bulletproof police vehicle.

Gloucester Township officials on Wednesday opened the lone bid received for a contract to provide the Police Department with an armored rescue vehicle. The bid from Pittsfield, MA-based Lenco came in at $277,986, Clerk Rosemary DiJosie said. It was unsealed in Council chambers at the Chews Landing Road municipal building. It is expected the Township Council will vote to award the contract to Lenco at its Feb. 25 meeting. Gloucester Township Police Deputy Chief David Harkins on Monday noted the vehicle is similar to those used by "an armored car driver...that we see at banks every day." "It's a truck that's built on a Ford F-550 body. The difference is the materials it's made out of are the only thing that's tested and assured to stop …

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Debbie Shinn

9:55 am on Monday, February 25, 2013

Thank You Charles. Sybil? "I would bet those dead cops in California wished they were driving in this vehicle when they were shot at." Really unfair statement! How about the 2 innocent lady citizens who found themselves under overhwheling fire by the Police who were trying to KILL them without any warning just because they were driving a pick-up truck? One lady hit in the back, fortunetley they …   more ›

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