Photo Gallery - Vehicles

Pictures of police vehicles - and Specials too! - from around the country - and further afield. For a complete feast of pictures of UK police vehicles, visit www.ukpolicecars.co.uk.

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A Few Merseyside Vehicles

Some pics of vehicles from the Merseyside Police, courtesy of Alex McKenzie from PolicePics UK...

Two yellow CCTV "Caught on Camera" vehicles. There are many of these yellow cars and vans with mobile CCTV as part of the "Be Streetsafe" initiative on Merseyside.

A Vauxhall Sintra Collision Investigation Unit.	And finally, a sparkling new Merseyside Police Jaguar! This photo was taken at at the Queen's Jubilee visit in 2002.

D&C Motors!


From SC Greg Phillips, Devon & Cornwall Police Greg writes, "Hi Andy, Just been looking at your site, and have to say, its pretty impressive. I am an SC in Devon & Cornwall, and work in and around the Plymouth area - E Div. Just thought I would send a couple of pics for you of our local units down here."

Surrey Galaxies

Surrey Police have recently taken delivery of three marked Ford Galaxy vehicles for use in targetted patrols in the county. Here's a couple of snaps of Surrey Specials showing off their new toys!
SO Colin Dowman and SO Nikki Dowman (yes, they're married!) with one of them...	...and SC Alan Nolan-Davies with the Galaxy from North Surrey Division

Welsh Focus

From SC Stu Phillips, St.Davids City Police, Dyfed-Powys Police

Thought I would send you this photo of me, with one of the Dyfed-Powys Police Ford Focus cars. Hopefully you will be able to put it on your web-site as one of the first pictures from a Welsh force.

An interesting fact for you. St.Davids is the smallest City in the UK, with only three regular officers and two Specials.

Mini Miles from Home

This photo was sent to me by Pete Cavallo who lives in Orange County Florida USA. He used to own this ex-Liverpool England police Cooper S, complete with all the equipment - roof box, sirens, radio, accident signs, accident lights, etc.
	Peter used to exhibit it at local car shows in the US and says it would get almost TOO MUCH attention. He has since sold on the vehicle but we're pleased to still have the picture here!

Warwickshire Heart Starter!

From Garry Swinburn, Section Officer with Warwickshire Special Constabulary.

Warwickshire Specials have a new vehicle - the first car of its type used by any Special Constabulary as it will carry a portable Automatic External Defibrillator, more commonly known as a heart start machine. It is also the first police car in Warwickshire to be fitted with a satellite navigation system.

It's a fully equipped VW Passat estate provided by local sponsor SPIRIT Volkswagen, with other police suppliers, Woodway Engineering, Ringway Vehicle Graphics, Siemens VDO Automotive, Tildawn, FIX FIRE, Warwickshire Ambulance service and even the biggest local Radio Station Heart FM!!

The Heart Start capability has really helped in not only procuring the car but in the publicity surrounding it, and as we have a very rural area to patrol (Southam, Warwick, Kenilworth and Leamington), it will really help us out. We are in the final throws of negotiating a trailer and we will be then trying to procure an Air Shelter, giving us the option to set up a truly portable police station. The project has been really hard work, with four of us making up the main contingent of bodies, but we got there.

On its first weekend of patrol, it ended up clearing off the nuisance youths in the town, protecting the scene of an RTC, 12 pace searches, 2 alarms one confirmed burglary, 3 stopped in a shed of a car, all with previous car theft against them, and one arrest for warrant!! That was just the Saturday!!

Met's Crime Prevention Car

John cleaning the car at the Met police show, Chigwell

At a local school fun-day

Back yard of Plaistow Police Station, East London

From John Stockwell, Sub-Divisional Officer with the Metropolitan (London) Police.

A friend of mine restores genuine ex Police vehicles from several different forces. Our unit was trying to get sponsorship for a crime prevention car to be used on our area. We had no offers of a new vehicle and at the time my friend was finding it hard to get the original bits to restore this SD1 Rover, an ex-Met police area car. It was suggested we fully kit the car out in current Met police livery. We got sponsorship for nearly all the equipment and used it for about four years, taking it to Police shows, local schools, shopping centres and other locations to promote Crime Prevention.

When it was finally withdrawn from service, the vehicle remained in its livery and is still owned by my friend as part of his collection, along with a P6 Rover Met area car, Austin Allegro and Metro panda cars, two Vauxhall Senators and various other ex Police vehicles!

Colchester's Freelander

Here's a photo of Land Rover Freelander that was provided to us by H.R.Owen of Colchester. Sadly she has gone back now and we are waiting for a replacement. Fingers crossed we will get a Range Rover but somehow I think not although a Discovery may not be out of the question!

From Colin Shead, Divisional Officer Colchester Division, Essex.

Northumbria Police's Unusual Patrol Car

Now some shots of an unusual police car - for the UK anyway! The car pictured below is on long term loan from Orange County Sheriffs Department, in Florida USA.

Steve Clare explains: "it is the second car we've had from them, although the previous one was exactly the same, just a little older! It is a Ford Crown Victoria, and has a 4.8ltr V8 engine, will do a top speed of about 145mph and will hit 60mph in a little over 7 seconds. And this is their STANDARD patrol car, equivalent to our Ford Fiestas! And just to put it into proportion, it weighs 2.5 tonnes and is the same length as a Ford Transit hi-top personnel carrier!

So, why have we got it? Well, Orange County provided the first one to us, simply because we are one of the biggest forces in the country (geographically), and so I guess they thought it would get seen by more people! It was dedicated in the memory of one of their officers who died in the line of duty, and they decided to put it to some good use. So it came over here in 1997 and has been used primarily for Crime Prevention work, such as large shows or conferences around the UK, as well as large events where it was used just to attract attention - and believe me, it did!

If you notice some of the livery on it, it has a lot of Crime Stoppers info on it. This is because they also use it as a promotional tool. However, it is insured for police use, and we have used it operationally a couple of times. It is quite funny when you try to stop a vehicle in it, the look on the punters face is usually pretty funny! So because of the success of the first one, in March 2001 they sent us a 2000 spec model, as pictured.