The Erie Police Department's fleet of vehicles is aging, but a bunch of new cruisers are hitting the streets soon.

Crews at the municipal garage are getting four brand-new 2020 Ford Interceptors equipped with lights, sirens, decals and computer equipment.

It takes a while to transform these cars into police vehicles, “We strip the vehicle and add all of the equipment to it here,” said A.J. Antolik, Bureau Chief of the City of Erie Municipal Garage. “Once we get the vehicle, it takes us about three weeks to outfit it, we put the push bumper on, the computer, the radio, we run all the wiring of the lighting as well,” Antolik continued.

The city garage also applies the graphics and the wiring for the light bars and sirens.

Two new cruisers are currently on the streets and four more are being outfitted now, with six more on the way.

With a lot of the cruisers with very high mileage, these 12 new cruisers will help substantially flip the fleet this year, “A lot of our police vehicles have 200,000, 250,000 or even 300,000 miles on them, that they run every single day,” said Antolik.

The Erie Police Department hopes to equip its new front-line cruisers with dash cameras, a new system it plans to order when the department also orders 140 body cameras for its officers.