by It’s been 20 years now and people are still talking about it. The issue has to do with Lamborghini and the ‘Polizia di Stato’ (the Italian national police) which has just received another vehicle from the very famous luxury car brand. Is about a urus that reaches the 306 kilometers per hour and can accelerate from zero to 100 kilometers per hour in 3.3 seconds. Very very fast. Now this parked in the Tor Sapienza neighborhoodon the outskirts of Rome, in one of the headquarters of the traffic cop. There is also found a hurricanedonated a few years ago.
The police are proud of it. The reason is not only that cars serve to attract, at public events, people to whom it is then done. vial education and chase on highways and large highways criminals, activities for which they are also used. After the first Lamborghini was donated in 2004 (a Gallardo, currently ‘retired’ and in a museum in the Italian capital), the police continue to use them in a rather peculiar, but life-saving way: in time-trial missions. paraca tissue transportplasma and organs.
“It is a task that these vehicles perform when there are no other forms of transportation available, helicopters, in some cases, or in very short times, or there are environmental difficulties (little fire visibilityfor example)”, says chief commissioner Vincenzo Orgini. “Since we have them they have been used in 2,040 public events, 390 police operations, such as suspect chasesand 244 organ transfers“Adds Orgini.
115 agents
In fact, the collaboration with Lamborghini, which provides the vehicles for free and guarantees their maintenance, began 20 years ago but has been perfected over time. In 2019 inclusive a protocol was signed with the National Transplant Center and currently there are some 115 agents trained and authorized (of the 10,000 that make up the highway police force) to drive them and who come from the barracks in Rome, Naples and Bologna.
In this last city, there is also another active Hurricane, although it is to the center of the Italian capital that requests for transfers arrive. According to Orgini, the high number of qualified pilots is due to the fact that they try to work with the greatest fluidity possible. “If a Lamborghini is required for a planned activity, we can organize ourselves. On the other hand, if we receive a request to transport organs, we must act extremely quickly to activate the agents who are available at that moment,” explains the official.
In a country famous for its love of cars, the operatives of this unit are followed almost as if they were movie chapters of action. Last September, for example, the news that the Rome Hurricane was carrying a kidney from the Tor Vergara hospital to the city of Pisa, located more than 350 kilometers away. A tour that took place in about two and a half hours, almost an hour less than what a normal vehicle uses. There is not this alone. After the agents delivered the organ, they received a call of gratitude from the doctor in charge and family members, since the surgical operation had been successful.
Specials
“It was a great satisfaction,” says Orgini, adding that in any case it is not about behaving like Michael Schumacher or Fernando Alonso. “The only thing that matters is fulfilling the mission, so the speed is regulated so that the trip is safe,” he points out.
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That said, the vehicles aren’t regular Lamborghinis either. They don’t even leave the factory like that. They are built directly at the company headquarters, so that, in the front part, they are equipped with a special cooling system and, on board, they carry mermaidsradio controls and LED lights like those used in regular police cars, as well as a tablet through which the two police officers on board can consult data banks with police information. In return, Lamborghini also has its share of visibility and free advertisingsince the vehicles are generally presented at public events where the authorities usually attend.
Maybe that’s why the police Lamborghini case is no longer unique. His example is beginning to be imitated. So much so that, three years ago, a Nissan GT-R supercar and a Mercedes CLS They were enlisted in the police fleet of Portugal. In this case, the two cars also have a curious history. Were seized in judicial proceedings and subsequently delivered to the Republican National Guard. Likewise, like the Italian cars, both vehicles have been painted and labeled with the colors of the two European police forces.
