
In this Thursday May 19, 2016 photo, Dubai police Lt. Saif Sultan Rashed al-Shamsi, who oversees the tourist police’s patrol section, pushes down one of the twin scissor doors of the $140,000 BMW i8 during a demonstration in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Police in Dubai have built up a high-horsepower arsenal of luxury sports cars and SUVs over the years to complement its fleet of green-and-white patrol cruisers. They say it is a way to reach out to the community and make their officers more accessible to the public in a country home to huge foreign workforce.

The above photos shows the front of a Bentley Continental GT police car during a demonstration in Dubai.

In this Thursday May 19, 2016 photo, Police officer Bodoor Jassim al Saffar takes the wheel of a Bentley Continental GT police car during a demonstration in Dubai.

Dubai police women walk towards their luxury cars during a demonstration on May 19, 2016.