This Police Tesla Cybertruck Looks Like RoboCop’s New Ride

As an enormous wedge of stainless steel with not a single rounded edge to be found on it, the Tesla Cybertruck is already a pretty imposing thing to encounter out on the roads. It’s about to get a whole lot more scary to anyone flouting the law, though, as a Tesla tuning specialist has unveiled a police version of the bizarre-looking EV.

It comes from UP.FIT, a division of Tesla tuner Unplugged Performance, which has previously equipped the rest of Tesla’s far more normal-looking range for policing. It gets the expected gamut of lights, sirens and upgraded communications equipment, and UP.FIT can also fit it out with a police department’s usual livery (its website calls these ‘conspicuity markings’ as if the Cybertruck wasn’t conspicuous enough already).

UP.FIT can also, erm, upfit it with various other bits depending on its intended use. There’s the option of a partition between the front and back to keep any captured crims safely enclosed, as well as storage for the average American police department’s arsenal of weapons and tools, including the barking, slobbering, many-teethed variety.

Police forces in the more remote bits of the States might also be interested in the option to fit the Cybertruck with some serious off-road kit, including knobbly all-terrain tyres and forged beadlock wheels. UP.FIT also offers an upgraded ballistics protection package, which might come in handy given the Cybertruck’s past record with its apparently bulletproof windows.

There’s no mention of any performance upgrades – indeed, Unplugged doesn’t offer any for the regular Cybertruck. Yet. Even if a force plumps for the standard rear-drive Cybertruck as a base, though, it still gets 315bhp. Should any forces have enough funding for the triple-motor ‘Cyberbeast’ version, they’ll have 845bhp to deploy against anyone who tries to outrun them.

Of course, because Europe has pedestrian safety regulations that look less fondly on entirely pentagonal cars, there’s no chance of your local bobbies switching out their trusty Volvo V90s for one of these. UP.FIT, though, says the package is available to order now and that deliveries will begin by the end of 2024, so if you’re in the States and flirting around the speed limit, you might soon need to keep an eye out for these things. Not that you can really miss a 5.7-metre-long doorstop on wheels.