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TWIN FALLS — A new police patrol car will debut this week in Twin Falls, and it’s not your average cruiser.

The latest of Twin Falls Police Department’s Ford Interceptors — beefed-up, themed vehicles — is called “Salute to Service” and features camouflage coloring and emblems of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Police Cpl. Jayson Mickelson, a Marine Corps veteran, suggested the theme.

The timing of its debut near Memorial Day wasn’t exactly coincidental.

“We have a lot of military veterans on the force,” Police Chief Craig Kingsbury said. Some are actively serving in the Reserves and National Guard.

So, after Mickelson submitted his idea, the theme was approved to follow other distinctive patrol cars.

Moving away from ordinary black and white cruisers started in-house.

“We put it out to our employees for different ideas,” Kingsbury said. A popular suggestion involved adding a thick blue line to the paint design. That concept was posted on the department’s Facebook page.

“We got a lot of feedback,” he said.

From there, the plan for themed cars grew.