Come to MI and it gets even stranger in regards to security.

 

Some entities (mostly hospitals) have "arrest authority" licensed security.

 

Licensed private security police officers, also referred to as "arrest authority" security guards, have misdemeanor arrest authority while on active duty, on their employer's premises and in full uniform. One person, usually a security manager, is responsible for licensure and all of the employees that have the arrest authority must meet minimum requirements related to age, security or law enforcement experience and suitable background including absence of any felony conviction and specific misdemeanor convictions.

http://www.michigan.gov/mcoles/0,4607,7-229--147950--,00.html

 

And a car photo for good measure.

 

 

 

I know in certain areas there are agencies with similar livery designs. The most obvious place is to look at California where most agencies have black and white cars with only minor changes to the decals. In Florida pretty much all the sheriff's offices run white cars with green stripes. In Massachusetts it seems like all the city agencies run the same paint scheme as Boston PD. In New Jersey there is an agency that looks similar to NYPD, obviously when you look at them they are clearly not NYPD but I can see if you were to quickly get a glance at it you might mistake it for an NYPD cruiser.

 

Union City, NJ

http://www.policecarwebsite.net/fc/rwcar4j/unioncity.html

 

Or NYC Sheriff which is identical to NYPD except their cars say "SHERIFF" across the side.

http://www.policecarwebsite.net/fc/ny/nyc.html

We also have Co-op City Police. Not that much identical but you can tell the difference 

 

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We also have Co-op City Police. Not that much identical but you can tell the difference 

 

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Interesting, I've never heard of this agency or anything like it. It is a private police force that has arrest powers (only while on duty). That is the strangest thing I've heard of, it is like a mix of a police force and a private security company. And some quick research shows that isn't the only private police force, I'm almost surprised that I haven't come across something like this before.

 

Learn something new every day, thanks for sharing.

As far as security companies go, I know of a couple in Florida. The biggest one we dealt with while patrolling my county was a company called Critical Intervention Services (CIS) which was an armed security company (they have air units, marine units, K-9, SWAT) that provided security services to the big power plant in Tampa. They also were hired for security at some of the Section 8 housing complexes in the Tampa area as well. However in my county some wealthy gated community hired them to provide security for their neighborhood which many of us laughed at because they were in a very nice part of the county with low crime and to make it worse one of the CIS officers that worked there regularly was this nut job who was a wanna-be cop. He would often tell us stories about how he would pull people over (they drove CVPIs with green and amber lightbars) and issue citations (they were really just HOA slips). He also told us about how he drew down on someone before and how a LT from our sheriff's office called him specifically while he was off duty to come in and help with finding a missing child in the neighborhood because apparently our deputies couldn't find her, but when he arrived he found the child within an hour. Yeah, this guy was full of stories and some of them were borderline criminal. We normally got stupid calls in that neighborhood (like juvenile complaints) and a few serious burglaries and anytime he saw one of us pull into the neighborhood he would follow us to the call to "back us up". The calls themselves weren't bad, but I hated responding to calls in that neighborhood simply because I hated dealing with that guy.

To clarify Massachusetts, most police cruisers are unique to that town/city, but a few of them copy other each other because the departments buy from the same company (MHQ), which offers templates. There's a few towns I know of that copy Boston PD's appearance like Oak Bluffs. It's all personal preference for the department, for example, my MA department recently made the switch from all white to black and white. 

 

Don't believe me when police departments copy others? 

 

North Adams, Massachusetts.

Thank you all! a lot of information about it.

 

I never think of how many liveries are the same as NYPD :D

 

Also, some police cars on Brazil are using only blue light bars.

 

Polícia Civil do estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Civilian Police of Rio de Janeiro.

 

But are some new cars coming:

 

 

Hahahah just kidding. maybe on dreams, maybe..

He soon realised it was another department so he ordered all NYPD cars to have the letters NYPD POLICE on the front and rear of the cars so they can be identified easier as nypd cars.

 

So that is the reason NYPD cars have the NYPD text on the front and rear now. You learn something new everyday.

 

Cheers.