PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Portland Police Department is getting a pair of armored personnel carriers to bolster local law enforcement.
The Portland Press Herald says the track-driven M113s were offered for free as surplus property by the Department of Defense last fall. The Portland police got two of them, one of them to be used for parts. The vehicles are sometimes referred to as a “tanks.”
Police Capt. Ted Ross acknowledged that some people say they are too much. But Ross says the vehicle will reduce the exposure to danger for officers who approach a hostile or armed confrontations.
Police plan to equip the vehicle with a retractable battering ram to be used in case officers have to force their way into a barricaded building.
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