<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Millions of dollars of </span><a href="http://www.9news.com.au/queensland" rel="" target="" title="Queensland"><span>Queensland</span></a><span> Police vehicles are claimed to have been sitting idle in car parks, waiting to be fitted with radios, lights, and branding by the organisation's Fleet Services department.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>9News understands the vehicles have been unable to be rolled out to the frontline for up to four years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>According Queensland Police Union president Shane Prior, there is $8 million worth of vehicles sitting in a depot.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/police-hunt-gunman-who-shot-police-officer-civilians-manhattan-us/c545d211-0267-4535-a2fb-5372d477de94" target="_blank"><strong><span>Four dead, including police officer, in Manhattan shooting</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Something needs to be done better because taxpayers' money is being spent on this," Prior said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are aware that Fleet Services have taken delivery of vehicles in 2021, not kitted out those vehicles and delivered them to the front line till 2025.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Those vehicles no longer have a warranty attached to it.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-police-vehicle-backlogs-cars-idle-in-depot-news/0e806acb-f1bf-42fd-83fe-4ecd97c5d297" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They've been sitting on flat tyres, which also is a significant workplace health and safety issue, but we've also heard reports of vermin making a home in the vehicles sitting there in the yard."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Last week, 9News filmed a number of 2023 Land Cruisers with registration due to expire in October.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>9News has been told officers are driving cars that have clocked 250,000 kilometres, despite police policy dictating vehicles should be replaced once they have been driven 100,000 kilometres.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We've also got a prisoner van up in Caboolture that has over half a million kilometres on the clock," Prior said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Acting Commissioner Shane Chelepy said issues were raised in May and the "backlog has now been cleared".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said there's a "working group meeting weekly to manage the ongoing volume to ensure vehicles are delivered to the frontline as soon as practicable".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Apple App Store</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>and</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Google Play</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>.</span></em></strong></div></div>