The Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department has become the first local law enforcement agency to have a Tesla Model Y electric vehicle as part of its patrol fleet.
The department used its Facebook page to declare its new vehicle was “the first Model Y that has been outfitted with lights, sirens and radio for police use – in the whole country (maybe even the world!).” However, California”™s Fremont Police Department, which was the first to incorporate a Tesla vehicle into its fleet in 2019, acquired its own Model Y in July but did not publicly announce the acquisition until November. The Westport Police Department was the first in the region to buy a Tesla, acquiring a Model 3 in December 2019.