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You might do a double-take when you see the new fleet of police vehicles in one Fairfield County town.
Darien Police recently up-fitted their 2021 police cars with a new graphics package, said Captain Jeremiah Marron of the department s Field Services Bureau.
The former and more simple black and white graphics have been in place for almost a decade and were originally designed for the Chevrolet Caprice model that the Patrol Division used to replace the Ford Crown Victoria which is no longer manufactured, Marron said.
The smaller Chevrolet presented several challenges for daily police work and the decision was made by the department to move to the SUV-based Ford Police Interceptor Utility in 2013.
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Motor vehicle burglaries in Darien nearly double in a year
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DARIEN Motor vehicle burglaries nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in town, according to statistics from the Darien Police Department.
Police attribute the increase to Darien’s reputation for having unlocked cars. Car burglaries increased from 109 in 2019 to 201 in 2020.
Capt. Jeremiah Marron said that, over the last decade, Darien residents have “unfortunately become well-known for leaving cars unlocked with the keys or key fobs inside.”
Forty-eight motor vehicles were stolen in 2020 compared to 31 in 2019. Other types of burglaries went down, from 25 in 2019 to 23 in 2020. Often, Darien’s motor vehicle burglaries happened overnight in one neighborhood.