Police Cars

in the

State of Iowa

Des Moines County Sheriff

Ford Crown Victoria- rear door "Sheriff Joel Behne"

This is an unusual set of markings for Des Moines County Sheriff vehicles. Sheriff Joel Behne decided in 1998 that the Sheriff's Office personnel should have their names on their take home cars, i.e. Deputy John Doe. The Des Moines County deputies did not relish the opportunity for every angry domestic abuser with a shotgun to know their name and home by finding their patrol car. Needless to say, after considerable wrangling, the newly elected Sheriff removed the name decals from his deputies' cars, but left them on his patrol vehicle. Des Moines County, in located in far south east Iowa and home of Burlington (30k) and Iowa's first state capitol, is a fairly large Iowa county.

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