Donation of an organ transportation vehicle for the Italian State Police

Project location: ITALY
Project start date: July 2005 - Project end date: July 2005
Project number: 2005-12
Beneficiary: POLSTATO

The Nando Peretti Foundation donated to the Italian State Police a Gallardo Lamborghini car, full of useful accessories. The powerful car is equipped with an automatic defibrillator and a thermal container for the urgent transportation of plasma and transplant organs. It is also equipped with the most highly advanced technology for video recording speed limit violations and other street and highway code infractions.  

The car was officially donated to the Italian State Police on the occasion of the 153rd anniversary of the State Police, the 13th  of May 2005 in the presence of the Chairman of The Nando Peretti Foundation, Elsa Peretti, at Piazza del Popolo in Rome. In the month of September 2005 it was assigned to the Police Road Department of Bologna. The ceremony  of delivery to the Police of Bologna took place in September in the presence of the Prefect of Bologna, a representative of the mayor of Bologna,  the representatives of the local health departments of the Regione Emilia Romagna, the chief of the Police Road Department and the President of the Provincia Emilia Romagna.