H -2° L -2° Partly Cloudy | 8MPH  Hales Corners picks Chevy to
supply its new squads  Two vehicles to be replaced for $51,000
Jan. 15, 2013  Hales Corners - The Police Department will spend
$51,000 to replace two of the seven squad cars in the police
fleet.  Approval by the Village Board came Monday, on the heels
of a recommendation by the Plan Commission and a year of
research by the Police Department.  The department has five
Crown Victoria squads, but Ford is no longer making that model.
Knowing a change would be needed, Police Chief Eric Cera started
researching replacement options.  "We took a step back last year
(and) instead of just jumping in blindly, we thought that we
would have the other departments around us make a determination,
we'd wait about a year and then we would start surveying the
other departments," Cera said.  They began looking at vehicles
in the spring of last year, seeing how officers and their gear
would physically fit in the vehicles. The determination was to
go with a Chevrolet T