"Cop car" redirects here. For other uses, see Cop Car.
"Squad car" redirects here. For the song, see Eddie & the Showmen.
"Police truck" redirects here. For the Dead Kennedys song, see Police Truck.
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Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor used by the Los Angeles Police Department
BMW X5 used by the Metropolitan Police Service
Nissan 370Z used by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
Nissan NV350 Urvan used by the National Police of Colombia
Ford Ranger used by the South African Police Service
Holden Ute (VF) used by the Western Australia Police Force
A police car (also called a police cruiser, police interceptor, black and white,patrol car, area car, cop car, prowl car, squad car, radio car, or radio motor patrol) is a ground vehicle used by police and law enforcement for transportation during patrols and responses to calls for service. A type of emergency vehicle, police cars are used by police officers to patrol a beat, quickly reach incident scenes, and transport and temporarily detain suspects, all while establishing a police presence and providing visible crime deterrence.
Police cars are traditionally sedans, though SUVs, crossovers, station wagons, hatchbacks, pickup trucks, utes, vans, trucks, off-road vehicles, and even performance cars have seen use in both standard patrol roles and specialized applications. Most police cars are existing vehicle models sold on the civilian market that may or may not be modified variants of their original models (such as the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor being a variant of the Ford Crown Victoria); the few purpose-built examples include the canceled Carbon Motors E7 and the Lenco BearCat armored vehicle.
Police cars usually contain communication devices, issued weaponry, and a variety of equipment, with emergency lights, a siren, and livery markings to distinguish them as such.
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century increased car ownership, leading to a growing number of criminals attempting to evade police in their own vehicle or a stolen car. Car chases may also...
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Police in the United Kingdom use a wide range of operational vehicles, including compact cars, powerful estates and armoured police carriers. The main...
Ploddy the PoliceCar on the Case (Norwegian: Pelle Politibil på sporet; also released as Bold Eagles) is a 2013 Norwegian 3D computer-animated adventure...
Ford police vehicles constitute the automobiles manufactured and sold by the Ford Motor Company for use as policecars and other car-based emergency vehicles...
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front of the car. The car stopped and as it reversed back up the street Knight fired two more shots at it before it crashed into a policecar, driven by...
transported in a conventional patrol car, the prisoner might attack the officers during the journey. To combat this, police vans were designed with a fixed...
Car of the Year. Production ended in 1996. From 2011 to 2017, the Caprice nameplate returned to North America as a full-size, rear wheel drive police...
Volkswagen cars for their police force. Before the police reform in the mid-1970s, Germany had many city police forces and each had its own policecar livery...
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from 1992 to 2011. It is the policecar version of the Ford Crown Victoria and was the first vehicle to use the Ford Police Interceptor name. From 1997...
have developed car classification schemes that are used for various purposes including regulation, description, and categorization of cars. The International...
and encountered the same police car fleeing the scene of another house fire. As they pulled alongside the policecar, Wortman fired at them with a handgun...
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