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Buntin countered that purchasing a single vehicle to be used by whichever deputy is on duty will depreciate the car in one year rather than three or four. He reported that other local sheriffs departments have not been satisfied with compacts. “They’re not made for police cars...They can’t do the job,” Buntin said.
Noting that the county already gets free radio service from the state police and Culpeper sheriffs department, Buntin said “now is the time for us to start catching up.” He assigned number one priority to county cars.
Seconding the sheriffs opposition to compact cars for police work, deputy Crossman suggested that the supervisors “try loading up a passed-out drunk in a Volkswagon.”
Deputy Rett Thompson added that the county could be liable for injuries, particularly back injuries, that may result from trying to stuff an arrested person into a small car.
Thompson also pointed out the difficulties in driving on the county’s deeply rutted gravel roads in a compact car. Trying to navigate his own medium size vehicle on back roads, the deputy said, "I’ve
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