Step apart, Dubai PD, there is a new overseas police pressure with a fleet of efficiency vehicles. A dramatic hype video posted to X (previously Twitter) by Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reveals greater than two dozen sports activities vehicles, supercars, and SUVs assembled collectively after being seized over the weekend by the Turkish Police Department and remodeled into police cruisers.

The police impounded 23 automobiles in whole. They vary from high-end luxurious vehicles just like the Bentley Continental GT and Porsche Taycan to efficiency vehicles just like the Ferrari 458 and Volkswagen Golf R. There are even a handful of luxurious SUVs just like the Range Rover Sport and the Mercedes-Benz GLS. The whole worth is estimated to be round USD $3.5 million (100 million Turkish Liras).

According to the Daily Telegraph, the vehicles got here from a single drug trafficker named Hakan Ayik. Ayik was the chief of the Comanchero Motorcycle gang based mostly in Australia and had an estimated fortune of someplace within the neighborhood of $1 billion. He and 36 of his associates had been arrested in Istanbul final month.

Turkish Interior Minister Yerlikaya mentioned of the arrest on X: “As a results of the profitable operations carried out by our Istanbul Police Department in opposition to organized crime organizations, 23 automobiles had been seized. Following the court docket choice, these automobiles had been handed over to our police.”

The vehicles will likely be utilized by site visitors police in Turkey transferring ahead, so do not plan on rushing by Istanbul anytime quickly.