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Twenty years ago, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins wouldn’t have been convinced that an armored vehicle was essential for local law enforcement agencies. In recent years, he said, that’s changed. “I think it’s an absolute need for law enforcement today,” Jenkins said in an...

Lenco Introduces BearCat X3 – FireCat

Consider the Iron Triangle of lethality, survivability and mobility when practicing how to respond to critical incidents By Len Light, Lenco President and CEO View article on PoliceOne.com We’ve all heard the negative comments about the falsely perceived...

Lenco Industries, the leader in tactical armored security vehicles, is proud to introduce the Lenco BearCat X3® - the newest variant to the BearCat family of light APCs. The BearCat X3® utilizes proven Lenco technology in a lightweight Modular variant designed for...

VIENNA, Ga. – A Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office deputy said an armored vehicle saved lives during a standoff with a Ku Klux Klansman in Dooly County earlier this month. On April 15, deputies with the Dooly County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the home of Joseph...

Lenco’s new water monitor provides a tactical advantage in dangerous situations   By PoliceOne BrandFocus Staff View Full Article on PoliceOne.com The Lenco BearCat has long been a must-have for many SWAT teams around the country. The armored vehicle is a...

BOZEMAN - A standoff in Bozeman could have ended much worse than it did. Bozeman police say patience and technology are big reasons the standoff ended relatively peacefully. It was the protection provided by an armored vehicle that allowed police to patiently wait...

The increasingly common use by police of heavy equipment and military style weapons and tactics has been a steady theme of critics in the past couple of years, and with good reason. As writers such as Radley Balko have documented, the number of paramilitary raids...

Columbia, CA — Sized more like an armored bank truck than an Army tank, the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s 2015 SWAT Lenco BEARCAT MedCat doubles as a medevac ambulance. It is not difficult to make a case for having such state-of-the-art wheels handy after touring the...

(CNN)— An employee of an upstate New York maximum-security prison gave hacksaw blades, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses to a pair of convicted murderers before their brazen escape, sources said Friday. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN's "New...

On Sept. 4, Imozelle McVeigh wrote a letter to the editor of the big daily newspaper down the street. She lauded the Chula Vista City Council for last year’s budgeting equal funds for library books as they did for bullets for the cops. Then, McVeigh inexplicably...

While some law enforcement agencies are snatching up free military surplus vehicles, Orlando police plan to spend $230,000 for a new armored personnel carrier for the department’s SWAT unit. It’s not the Orlando Police Department’s first armored vehicle — it already...

The vehicle manufactured by Lenco Industries is called the Bearcat, a cuddly acronym that doesn’t capture the weighty mission referenced in its full name: Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck. It’s essentially a steel shell on wheels -- 20 feet...

At a time when police action in the Midwest is raising concerns about the militarization of local law enforcement agencies, police in South Los Angeles are crediting some of that equipment for saving lives during a dramatic run-and-gun pursuit before daybreak Monday....

STOCKTON - When the Stockton Police Department unveiled the Lenco BearCat® G3 in June 2012, officials claimed it could withstand AK-47 rounds from point-blank range, saying .50-caliber bullets would not penetrate its hull or puncture its run-flat tires. The $300,000...