The Metropolitan police commissioner’s personal Range Rover cost £25,000 more than the next most expensive vehicles in Scotland Yard’s fleet. The £65,000 paid for the Range Rover Vogue SE was four times the value of the average police car.
Days after Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe bought the vehicle with a £1,000 entertainment system he warned that government cuts were damaging the force’s ability to keep the public safe.
Sir Bernard insisted that it was not a luxury because his old Range Rover had to be replaced and he needed to be able to watch the news as he travelled.
Figures obtained by Tony Arbour, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, disclose that the car cost the equivalent of nearly four patrol cars at an average of £16,834 each.
Even the fleet’s most expensive vehicles were cheaper than Sir Bernard’s. Armed response vehicles cost less than £40,000 and vans that carry detainees are less than £30,000.