Last year, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department spent about $11 million covering salaries and equipment upgrades. Law enforcement is a lot more sophisticated than it used to be and we need equipment today that we never needed before. When you call, we have to be there. We can't worry about trying to get out of the vehicle and push it down the street.

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We are on a replacement schedule with police cruisers. Once they reach 100,000 miles, we like to take them off regular police duty.

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