Rolling out a fleet of newly acquired vehicles funded via a restructured Police Modernisation scheme of the Government of India was the occasion. The fleet consisted of 561 vehicles, arguably the single biggest acquisition of motor transport in the history of the department. As these new cars hit the rutted roads, an obvious gap in the state police comes to fore— deficiencies in specialised investigative aids and units, forensic science being one. The irony becomes glaring when elected leaders keep talking about upgrading and improving civil policing, and evolving alongside the changing nature of crime. There is more to policing than simply buying new vehicles.