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Calgary’s top cop said the service is examining what colour the next generation of police vehicles should be, amid community concerns black and white police cruisers are too menacing.

Police Chief Roger Chaffin told council Monday, during a budget update, that the police commission will receive a report next year about cruiser colour.

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“We want to have enough data to say if it’s a change of colour, what is the right colour,” Chaffin told reporters Monday evening.

He said the service has enough new vehicles to last a few years, but come 2018 or 2019, a change in car colour for new vehicles is possible depending on what data demonstrates.

“We’ve been asked this before a couple times, both in the community and in council, about the colour of the black and white vehicles — does that create an adverse effect in community?” Chaffin said.

“We’ve looked at it, and we haven’t seen that effect, but after watching what the Toronto chief just went and experienced with his own board challenging him on the grey and white vehicles, it was a good opportunity for us to say look, let’s go back again and revisit the whole model.