Michigan State Police Blue Goose voting open for best vehicle contest

• A Michigan State Police Tahoe is in ninth place in final yr’s competitors.
• Final yr Michigan Ohio defeated hundreds of votes.

For the twelfth yr, the Michigan State Police competes within the annual finest -looking Cruiser Contest organized by the American Affiliation of State Troopers, however they want the assistance of Michiganders to win.

The competitors is held yearly to find out which state police group can declare that they’ve the most effective patrol car. The winner is chosen primarily based on the variety of votes that every state receives.

Michiganders are requested to vote for the “Blue Goose”, a Dodge Durango from 2024, the Michigan State Police for this yr’s competitors. Voting is open till July 11. Residents of Michigan can forged one vote every single day by visiting the survey at surveymonkey.com/r/bestlookingcruiser2025the American Association of State Troopers Facebook web page, or the web site, StateTroopers.org.

The highest 13 voters shall be proven within the 2026 The most effective -looking Trooper Cruisers wall calendar produced and bought by the American Affiliation of State Troopers, which presents varied types of help to rural troopers.

Final yr’s “Blue Goose”, a Chevy Tahoe, positioned ninth within the competitors. It may very well be seen within the calendar of the Affiliation 2025 for the doorway of the annual Electrical Forest Competition in Rothbury for the month of August.

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At one level final yr, the competitors between Michigan and Ohio was shut by, stated Lieutenant Michael Shaw, commander of the Public Info Workplace for Michigan’s State Police. However Michigan ultimately received and obtained 9,947 votes within the 5,947 votes from Ohio. Florida got here first with essentially the most votes and the cruiser was proven on the quilt of the calendar.

“We simply ask Michiganders to go on and to vote for all their gadgets. And naturally we wish to be the primary, and we wish to ensure that we’ll flip it within the south,” Shaw stated.

The nickname of the Michigan State Police Patrol autos, the “Blue Ganzen”, originated in 1954 when troopers switched from black patrol vehicles to the sunshine blue troopers using in the present day.

The American Affiliation of State Troopers has been organizing the competitors for 12 years. The group, which began in 1989, goals to unite Troopers all through the nation and presents assist by way of companies and advantages.

Calendars can be found for buy from October to StateTroopers.org. The proceeds from calendar gross sales will go to the American Affiliation of State Troopers Basis, which supplies academic commerce gala’s to individuals on the expense of memberships.

Alexia Stephenson, just lately graduated from the Cass Technical Excessive Faculty and an rising first -year pupil at Morgan State College, is a Detroit Free Press Summer season Apprentice from 2025.