If it is not about saving lives, police officers will keep a distance of one hundred meters from damaged electric cars.
If they are seized, quarantine awaits for up to several weeks.
The voltage in an electric car can reach 900 volts and a shock with that strength is fatal, says the police's new routine for handling electric vehicles.
Seized cars end up in quarantine
Protection agent Roj Darwich, who also works as an investigator, assures that police officers will save lives if necessary.
In less critical cases, police officers will wait at a safe distance before, for example, the emergency services
But not being allowed to touch a seized electric car that is to be quarantined, doesn't that delay investigations?
- I find it difficult to see that it will be a problem.
If we are talking about more serious crimes and seized vehicles, we usually have time to quarantine them, says Roj Darwich.