{"id":195774,"date":"2025-12-22T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195774\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:26:09","slug":"reusing-parts-from-written-off-patrol-cars-cuts-costs-and-waste-for-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195774\/","title":{"rendered":"Reusing parts from written-off patrol cars cuts costs and waste for police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The programme is managed by Clive Turner, from First Rescue, who came up with the concept after seeing police vehicles deemed a total loss and sent to damaged vehicle auctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt frustrated me seeing so many unaffected vehicle parts go to waste,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAdding salt to the wound was on other repairs, some second-hand parts purchased via wreckers turned out to be off total-loss New Zealand Police vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">He spoke to the Police National Headquarters Fleet team and a trial was launched in 2019 in Waikato and Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"> There were now donor storage locations in Whang\u0101rei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hastings, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Reusing parts from written-off police vehicles is saving money, reducing waste and keeping more vehicles on the road. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Reusing parts from written-off police vehicles is saving money, reducing waste and keeping more vehicles on the road. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">All districts had access to donor parts, with First Rescue assessing each vehicle repair on its merit \u2013 and where donor parts were available, and it\u2019s feasible, the parts were moved to the district they are needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe programme not only keeps police vehicles on the road at a fraction of the cost of normal repairs, it also significantly lowers time off the road as parts are easily accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Fleet Services managed the portfolio and communicated with Turner on an almost daily basis to authorise and request donor-related logistics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">This included identifying donor vehicles, opportunities to reduce repair quotes, moving donor vehicles between districts and expanding the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police and First Rescue were regularly monitoring regional demand for donor parts against availability, and seeking out new locations where possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">-Police Ten One Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The programme is managed by Clive Turner, from First Rescue, who came up with the concept after seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,6799,802,10666,2082,71,111,43,139,69,17711,71522,675,121144,25361,121145],"class_list":["post-195774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-cars","tag-costs","tag-cuts","tag-for","tag-from","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-patrol","tag-police","tag-reusing","tag-waste","tag-writtenoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}