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Calgary police vehicles are now equipped with daytime running lights after a citizen approached the service with a concern about the lack of automatic lights on the service’s black and white cars.

Police are also in the process of applying for a legal exemption so officers have the ability to switch off the daytime running lights for tactical reasons.

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In a Nov. 10 letter to the citizen who raised the concern, Insp. Scott Boyd said that as a precautionary measure, steps were being taken to re-activate running lights on all patrol vehicles.

Boyd added that while there is some uncertainty around legislation as it applies to the use of daytime running lights on police vehicles, the force decided “out of an abundance of caution” to apply for a legislative exemption to allow officers to operate their vehicles in “dark mode” in certain situations. As part of that exemption application process, switches will be installed in all patrol vehicles in order to turn off the running lights.