HERMISTON — The Hermiston Police Department has a new crime mobile.

The department has retrofitted a 2001 Dodge diesel as a crime scene vehicle stocked with equipment for the department to collect evidence at large or complicated crime scenes, according to a Facebook post from the department. The enclosed truck can also be used during warrant sweeps or as a mobile command post.

According to the post by Lieutenant Randy Studebaker, the department got an “amazing deal” on the vehicle from Umatilla Electric Cooperative. The truck was in good mechanical condition, he said, but it no longer served UEC’s purpose for it.

“We’re thankful for our partnership with UEC, and we anticipate this vehicle will be in service with us for many years,” he wrote.

The department was previously planning on using a retired ambulance donated by Umatilla County Fire District #1, but that vehicle met an unfortunate end when it was parked at a mechanical shop awaiting repairs and a driver lost control and crashed into it at “highway speeds.” The ambulance was totaled.