By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – Senator Francis Escudero assailed and promised to investigate the procurement of defective and questionable made in India cars the government bought for the national police.
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CONTROVERSIAL PATROL CAR. The India made
CAC Mahindra’s Enforcer Patrol Cars like this one
in photo is being questioned by Senator Francis “Chiz”
Escudero to be defective and dangerous because it was a
conversion of a right hand drive vehicle to a left drive car.
(Photo Credit: Manila
Times)
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Escudero said the 1,470 units of CAC Mahindra’s Enforcer Patrol Cars that have been converted from right hand drive to left hand could endanger their passengers.
“India is a right hand drive vehicles’ country, ”he quipped to media men here Thursday.
The Department of Budget and Management approved the P1.3 billion budget for their procurement.
He cited that when the driver manoeuvre the driving wheel to the right, the right front wheel did not jibe to the desired location of the driver.
