Police Go Green With Electric Scooter

Police sought to reduce their carbon footprint yesterday – by introducing an electric scooter to their fleet.

The Vectrix scooter just needs to be plugged into charge and will be used by officers to control traffic around Glasgow Airport.

Strathclyde Police is the first force in the UK to buy such a scooter.

It has no carbon emissions and reaches speeds of up to 62mph.

Inspector Colin Pearson, of Glasgow Airport police unit, said: “The Vectrix electric scooter works by plugging into a 13amp plug.

“We have two other motor scooters just now which are both petrol driven but they are coming to end of their life. We felt that to go for the green option would be the proper thing to do.”

Sergeant Kenny Brown is one of the officers trained to ride the Vectrix, which only needs an hour to charge up to full power.

He said: “We have trialled them here at the airport but I believe we’re the first to purchase the machine and put it into operational use.

“It’s very smooth, very quick and it’s a low down weight so it’s quite manoeuvrable and stable. An hour’s charge will do a full shift of running about the airport, so it’s ideal for our use and very quiet and very clean.”

The machine will mainly be used to enforce parking measures at the airport, which were put in place following last year’s terror attack.

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