a four-day training course over 18 months. On 19 December 2019, Victoria Police announced the purchase of 300 Daniel Defense DDM4V7S semi-automatic rifles. The rifles will be issued to the Public Order Response Team (PORT) and four 24-hour regional uniform stations – Geelong, Ballarat, Morwell and Shepparton to be securely stored in vehicles. Over 700 Victoria Police officers are to be trained in the use of the rifles to be able to respond to critical incidents. The roll-out of the rifles will commence in June 2020 and will be completed by the end of 2021. The Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) are both issued with the SIG MCX SBR rifle and a variety of shotguns. Fleet Victoria Police's fleet comprises a wide range of different vehicles including Mercedes, Volkswagen, Hyundai, BMW, Tesla and more. In 2018/19 Victoria Police introduced a revamp to their highway patrol fleet, which previously contained mainly Holden VFs. During the revamp, State Highway Patrol was also announced. SHP is the same as Highway Patrol, but it does have a different design as well as few different types of cars, including the Tesla Model X. SHP is not seen all that often as they are used more predominantly in non-metropolitan areas. Victoria Police's general duties fleet now mainly uses SUVs including the new Volkswagen Tiguan, Kia Sorento, Hyundai Santa Fe and Toyota Kluger. They also use 4WDs in rural areas Toyota LandCruiser Prado, Mitsubishi Pajero and Holden Colorados. VICPOL's main frontline response vehicle is their divisional 'divi' van. The first 'modern' version of this unit started out as a Holden Ute based on the 2010 Holden Omega. Announced in 2010, VICPOL partnered with Holden to bring 200 of these vehicles to replace the old, aging divi van fleet of 160 cars, bringing an extra 40 divisional vans to VICPOL's fleet. Most VICPOL stations across the state have at least one divisional van including other general duties and specialist vehicles. In 2021, Victoria Police announced a new Divisional van to join the fleet, the Ford Ranger (see below). The new Ford Ranger includes numerous new safety features including CCTV cameras all over the van, including in the prisoner compartment, where police officers can monitor the prisoner at all times by flicking a switch on the rearview mirror. Malvern and Maryborough were the first stations to receive the new van, VICPOL said it