Ford 2006 Crown Victoria Supplement Manual page 10

Severe duty equipment
Trunk Pack and trunk loading
Ford recommends that police equipment be both secured and
laterally aligned. Hard, stiff or sharp objects, especially when not
secured or properly located, pose a risk to the fuel tank and back seat
occupants in the event of a high speed rear impact. After-market
organizers that do not adequately deform in rear-impacts can
themselves become injury-producing objects. When locating, securing
and mounting police equipment, please review the Trunk Equipment
Mounting Guide, available on the www.cvpi.com website, which
provides recommended fastener mounting types and locations.
Following the trunk packing recommendations, also on the
www.cvpi.com website, is the most meaningful method of
reducing risk. If your department practice is inconsistent with the
trunk packing recommendations, then Ford suggests that you consider
purchasing an optional drop-in Trunk Pack
of injury resulting from police equipment pushing forward into the
back seat and/or fuel tank in the event of a high-speed rear impact.
The Trunk Pack provides more flexibility to officers transporting
police equipment than the truck packing recommendations.
To improve trunk packing by police agencies, Ford has made the
following items available:
• Trunk Pack
– a drop-in box with a tough plastic shell made of High
Density Polyethylene (HDPE). It both aligns police equipment laterally
in the trunk and utilizes a puncture resistant lining on the forward
side of the box to reduce the risk of police equipment penetrating into
the fuel tank and/or back seat in high-speed rear impacts.
• Trunk Equipment Mounting Guide – an outline pattern with
recommended fastener mounting locations in the trunk. The guide can
be found in the Police Interceptor Modifier Guide and on the Internet
at www.cvpi.com.
• Trunk Packing Considerations – the following guidelines are offered to
reduce the risk of unique police equipment items pushing through the
fuel tank and/or back seat (see our www.cvpi.com website for more
details).
Trunk Packing Considerations
A slogan has been developed to increase police agency awareness of the
importance of trunk packing.
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to further reduce the risk