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Rail police stations will be provided one vehicle each,” he said.The officer said 43 new vehicles had already been purchased and the process to procure 100 more was in the pipeline.“These police stations either lack the number of vehicles required for routine patrol. He said there are altogether 264 urban, 762 rural and 40 rail police stations in the state.“The police headquarters has planned to buy at least four vehicles for each urban police station and two for every rural police station. The production of Commander jeeps purchased in 2007 has been stopped,” he said.“We have hired vehicles as stopgap measure in many police stations facing shortage of jeeps. The department is paying a fixed rent to their respective owners,” he said.“Apart from these vehicles, a huge number of bikes will also be purchased,” he said. In addition, most of the existing vehicles have outlived their usable age and the quantity and quality of the fleet is deteriorating day by day,” he said.“Most of the vehicles are either Commander jeep or Maruti Gypsy ..