YH03 ZRK is a Vauxhall Movano LWB van that is being used on high visibility ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) duties. The van carries very little livery and no ‘police’ signs. It is used to check the number plate of every passing vehicle. If a vehicle of interest passes, a team of police officers on bikes and in cars can join the road and stop them. One such Volvo S70 can be seen flanking the van to the left.

AD56 CGE This silver Ford Focus is a Ford demonstrator vehicle. Here you can see the wig-wag setting on the headlamps and fog lamps operating in conjunction with the blue lights. By flashing the main beam on one headlamp then the other repeatedly, the vehicle can attract attention at a much greater distance than blue lights alone.

Here is a BMW that is yet to be made operational. BMW have added the livery and light bar before the car is registered and delivered to the City of London Police.

LG56 KLP Here is a rear view of a Mini One which is used by Community Support Officers. Notice the unusual blue and yellow checkered roof.

SF53 CEU This Mercedes Vito van is used by police in Glasgow, Scotland as a Crash Investigation Unit. It will usually form part of the secondary response to fatal or potentially-fatal road accidents.

N173 SLJ This Dorset Police Land Rover Defender is being used here to tow a display trailer. The Land Rover has had four floodlights added to the roof as well as the blue light bar. The spare wheel has been taken off the bonnet.

LX05 DVK is a Metropolitan Police Mitsubishi Shogun. Here it is topped at the side of the road and the officers have switched on the rear red flashing lights and scrolling matrix sign. The red lights flash on the light bar as well as the standard light clusters.

W923 OFG This photo shows a Vauxhall Astra dog van from Surrey Police. It is an ex-front line vehicle that is now preserved.

GN54 FFZ This is a Skoda Octavia that is with Kent Police. It has full-height battenburg markings over silver bodywork.

HMN-352-J This silver Range Rover is used by the Isle of Man police. Notice it has a clear light bar that flashes blue. It has repeater blue lights on the front grille and wings.

HMN-977-E This is a silver Ford Transit which is also used on the Isle of Man. It is a combined command unit and cctv unit. You can just see a white camera pod above the rear light bar.

SY03 BWN is a Northern Constabulary Ford Transit Connect. The Northern Constabulary police the most northerly reaches of the UK which include the Scottish Highlands and numerous islands.



The rear view of the Transit Connect.

YJ04 CCD is a North Yorkshire Ford Focus that is used for general patrol work. You can see that the non-emergency telephone number has been placed on the front wings. Also note that there is no identifying marks on the roof, apparently as the air support units don’t use them!

GMN 724R This is a silver Ford Galaxy that is used by the police on the Isle of Man.

HMN-607-H This is a Honda Accord which again is used by the Isle of Man Police.

This Peugeot 307 is with West Midlands Police. It shows the revised livery a single band of battenburg markings down each side.

This Harley Davison Motorbike was on loan to the Met Police in early 2007. It is decked out in the usual police blue and yellow squares and has a number of square blue flashing lights mounted on the sides and back. To the front are the traditional blue circular flashing lights.

OU06 AOO is a Vauxhall Vectra 2.8 V6 that is being used by police in Oxfordshire.

MX06 CWZ is a Greater Manchester BMW. It will be hard to miss this car coming up behind you as it has a two-row light bar on the roof, flashing lights behind the grille and next to the fog lights, corner-mounted flashing lights and alternating headlamp flashes too.

This is a GMP sprinter van in the usual colour-scheme of a blue roof and roofline. It has been converted for police use by Coleman Milne.

This Cambridgeshire blue Nissan X-trail has a single wide band of battenburg markings up the sides, as well as two yellow pieces on the bonnet to increase its conspicuity. The white light on the roof is a remote control spot light.

HMN-351-J The police on the Isle of Man operate this silver Range Rover with clear light bar.

SY05 AXN Here is a photo of a 2005 Ford Transit that is used by Northern Constabulary in the Northern-most reaches of Scotland.

SY56 AEC In Inverness you may spot this police mobile CCTV unit. The Sprinter has small cameras in the black pods on all sides. The camera on the front is in white housing and can swivel to any direction. A miniature cctv control room is housed inside.

This silver BMW X3 has been specially adapted by BMW to ‘authorities’ specification. This includes external modifications to the paint scheme and blue lights, and internal mods such as upgraded alternator, radio wiring etc.

Here is a Nissan Pathfinder 4×4 that is being displayed as a demonstrator. A noticeable addition is the telescopic floodlight mast. The light fold flat to the roof when the vehicle is moving, but on arrival at an accident scene at night for example, they can be lifted up, switched on and pointed by remote control.

HMN-835-H This Ford Focus police car is used on the Isle of Man.

NK54 FYG This Northumbria Police Volvo traffic car is attending a minor road collision. The driver has switched the rear-facing red flashing lights on to warn approaching drivers.

VE06 DVO This a Vauxhall Astra estate that is a police demonstrator car. Vauxhall Special Vehicle Operations take a regular Astra and make a number of modifications to it. These include modifying the dashboard to accommodate police radios and computers, adding additional wiring and of course adding the striking colour scheme. The most noticeable body change is the plinth that the light bar is mounted on which hides the wiring and adds strength to the roof.

X838 FHB Here is an ex-front line Ford Transit that is now used for support work by North Yorkshire.