BPS vehicle totalled in crash replaced for $91K
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Brandon City Council has approved the purchase of a new police vehicle to replace an SUV totalled last year.
Council approved the $91,100 purchase of a Ford Interceptor SUV for the Brandon Police Service at its Tuesday meeting.
The funding for the new SUV came from the city’s police vehicle reserve. It includes $78,017 for the vehicle itself and $13,000 for upfitting, according to a council report.
A Brandon Police Service police vehicle is shown on its side after it rode up a curb while responding to an incident on Nov. 14, 2025. Council on Tuesday approved the purchase of a new vehicle to replace it. (Supplied)
“A majority” of the police equipment from the totalled vehicle was recovered and was able to be reused, the report said.
Manitoba Public Insurance reimbursed the city $66,932 for the totalled vehicle.
MPI’s reimbursement was based on the fair market value of the vehicle and didn’t include the equipment BPS added, Greg Brown, the city’s acting director of transportation services, said during the meeting.
Once the vehicle is purchased, it typically takes three to six months for it to be used on the road, BPS Chief Tyler Bates told the Sun after the meeting.
The totalled vehicle was written off after it rolled onto its side during an incident on the evening of Nov. 14, 2025.
A lone BPS officer was in distress and called for assistance during a “combative arrest of an impaired driver,” Bates said in an email.
Another unit responded “with haste” to help the officer, but on the way took a corner “at high speed, rode up over a curb and turned over into an adjacent neighbourhood yard,” he said.
The crash occurred on the corner of 14th Street and Victoria Avenue. BPS at the time said there were no serious injuries.
Bates said vehicles typically have a lifespan of 36 months and put in between 160,000 and 180,000 kilometres of driving distance when they are decommissioned.
About one vehicle every five years is decommissioned early, typically because of a crash that necessitates replacement.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, some vehicles have been running for 40 to 42 months, he noted.
Council was required to approve the purchase as it was more than $50,000 and was not included in the city’s financial plan.
» alambert@brandonsun.com