Essex Police have paid out \u00a340,000 in repairs costs over the last five years due to officers filling up diesel-powered police vehicles with petrol.<\/p>\n
To save this happening again, the force have now invested \u00a34,000 on misfuelling prevention equipment that should prevent further misfuelling incidents.<\/p>\n
I’ve talked about the cost of misfuelling<\/a> before and back in August misfuelling prevention company DDN scored an impressive \u00a3250,000 investment on Dragons’ Den with their MPD (Misfuelling Prevention Device<\/a>).<\/p>\n I’m not sure whether this is the device that Essex police have used – but when faced with a repair bill like this, preventative measures certainly make good sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Essex Police have forked out \u00a34,000 on misfuelling prevention devices for their fleet. This may seem a lot – but they have spent \u00a340,000 in misfuelling-related repairs over the last five years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[362,487,110,114,488,489,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}