Paddy wagon question

[kendral77]

In our department, we usually wait on the wagon. Our wagons can be easily hosed out, unlike the back of our cars.

[sgtbear111]

Working small agency in college town, we borrowed an orange traffc safety grant "mobile jail" from a neighbor agency on party animal weekends. Just parking it nearby the party houses, they scattered like vampires at sunrise.

[CelticSmackdown]

Hell yeah, we have a paddy wagon!! For the division I work in, it's tradition to have a rookie drive it on their first night on duty. I was handed the keys to a 15 ft. Dodge paddy wagon my first night on and I loved it. Didn't have to take calls but was able to go to any call I wanted to. Granted, the stench from some of the drunks was overwhelming, but I had the exhaust fan cranked up and the AC on while driving all around town. Maybe when I have 20 years on and get the wagon as a permanent assignment, I'll install 18" subwoofers and some dice...in the same van I drove last week.

[ChesCopPodz]

My current agency has one for the entire city. I've never seen it moved from its parking spot at the central HQ, but we do have one.

My old agency has one at each division and uses them. When I worked evening shift, once every week or so, I'd be a floater, not assigned to a sector. Once every couple of months, I'd call down to the jail and see how full the warrant box was for my division. If they said there were a lot of warrants, and I was a floater, on days we weren't too busy i'd grab another officer, we'd jump in the van, head down to the jail, grab the warrants, and start going to the addresses to try to make contact. I'd usually run 2 or 3 van fulls to the jail on those nights.

They're also used for extremely large arrestees, extremely uncooperative arrestees, or those with unusual situations like being in a wheelchair.