{"id":171494,"date":"2026-02-19T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:09:43","slug":"murphy-pd-adds-electric-vehicles-to-patrol-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171494\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy PD adds electric vehicles to patrol fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Manager Aretha Adams, left, and Police Chief Jeff Gibson announce the police department is deploying two new Tesla Model Y Juniper squad cars. Bob Wieland\/Murphy Monitor<\/p>\n<p>What can silently accelerate to 140 miles per hour, has a deafening siren and blinding red and blue lights? The answer is Murphy Police Department\u2019s newest squad cars, units T1 and T2.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Jeff Gibson and City Manager Aretha Adams presented the new vehicles Thursday, Feb. 12, in front of City Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Murphy presents the Tesla Y Juniper to be used in law enforcement patrol operations,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cI believe it\u2019s very, very important to note that the city of Murphy is the first in the world \u2026 to implement the Tesla Y Juniper into patrol operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Juniper is a 2026 upgrade of the Model Y, featuring a sleeker design, improved cabin quality and enhanced technology, Tesla has said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Murphy Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Manager Aretha Adams, left, and Police Chief Jeff Gibson announce the police department is deploying two new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-171494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}