Does any body know of a guide to those letters on Met police cars? I know what ARV means and that's pretty much all I know.

You can search the Met police website for information, unit specifics I think are published (so you can get a rough idea what different acronyms mean).

To be honest though your best bet for vehicles would be to post the ones you don't know and let the UK members give you answers.

 

EDIT: Or do what Lund Said :)

Edited December 28, 201411 yr by LukeD

I'd tell you, but, there's simply too much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_roof_markings

Thanks guys! And Lund I probably specified UK Met police lol. Never mind I just need that guide to the acronyms except for UK Met. And I'n asking for somebody to list them all just a website link 

Edited December 28, 201411 yr by cdenker

Thanks guys! And Lund I probably specified UK Met police lol. Never mind I just need that guide to the acronyms except for UK Met. And I'n asking for somebody to list them all just a website link 

you may try and contact a gentleman by the name DoubleDoppler, he's the best British police expert as far as I'm concerned. Just don't tell him it was me who linked you :D

Thanks guys! And Lund I probably specified UK Met police lol. Never mind I just need that guide to the acronyms except for UK Met. And I'n asking for somebody to list them all just a website link 

Glad I could help.

you may try and contact a gentleman by the name DoubleDoppler, he's the best British police expert as far as I'm concerned. Just don't tell him it was me who linked you :D

 

I was thinking that, but I didn't want to disturb his mod making time :P

I was thinking that, but I didn't want to disturb his mod making time :P

Yea, it would be a waste of your time. He's a very busy person. Not with modding, but with College. I'm surprised he has any spare time.

Yea, it would be a waste of your time. He's a very busy person. Not with modding, but with College. I'm surprised he has any spare time.

 

I know right?

Ok heres my list:

 

FTW

MAT

BTL

AYY

BTE

BTS

ATS

DAT

GUD

RIS

PLE

DOP

Ok heres my list:

 

FTW

MAT

BTL

AYY

BTE

BTS

ATS

DAT

GUD

RIS

PLE

DOP

I assume you saw those markings on the roof of GTA 4 British police cars? I know Doppler makes many of the roof markings up (He named some of them after exam boards here in the UK like AQA, Edexcel etc.), and the FTW probably means "For the win" and Dop means "Doppler". I'd assume most letters you see on GTA 4 British police skins are made up.

I assume you saw those markings on the roof of GTA 4 British police cars? I know Doppler makes many of the roof markings up (He named some of them after exam boards here in the UK like AQA, Edexcel etc.), and the FTW probably means "For the win" and Dop means "Doppler". I'd assume most letters you see on GTA 4 British police skins are made up.

 

Thanks. And many aren't made by Double Doppler they're made by obsidian games, but your proabaly right.

Edited December 28, 201411 yr by cdenker

Ok heres my list:

 

FTW

MAT

BTL

AYY

BTE

BTS

ATS

DAT

GUD

RIS

PLE

DOP

As far as I know these have no actual meaning and are just a Unique identifier for each vehicle however as you mentioned before ARV there are four abbreviations that are for the vehicles use. ARV = Armed Response Vehicle, IRV = Incident Response Vehicle, PO = Public order and DSU = Dog Support Unit. As some further info the shapes on the roof tell you the use of the vehicle and the PNC(Police National Computer) code (number) tells you which force it belongs to. For example a five-edged star followed by the number 01 would be an Armed Response Vehicle belonging to The Metropolitan Police.

 

P.S - The PNC code also has other purposes such as being used when creating custody records and Firearms certificate's and also other uses relating to the Police National Computer.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edit - changed example from Dorset Police to The Metropolitan Police to make it more relevant. 

Edited December 28, 201411 yr by QuantumHD

As far as I know these have no actual meaning and are just a Unique identifier for each vehicle however as you mentioned before ARV there are four abbreviations that are for the vehicles use. ARV = Armed Response Vehicle, IRV = Incident Response Vehicle, PO = Public order and DSU = Dog Support Unit. As some further info the shapes on the roof tell you the use of the vehicle and the PNC(Police National Computer) code (number) tells you which force it belongs to. For example a five-edged star followed by the number 01 would be an Armed Response Vehicle belonging to The Metropolitan Police.

 

P.S - The PNC code also has other purposes such as being used when creating custody records and Firearms certificate's and also other uses relating to the Police National Computer.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edit - changed example from Dorset Police to The Metropolitan Police to make it more relevant. 

 

It helped and thank you.

Oh I ahve another qustion Do armed response vehicles stay at the station or patrol?

Oh I ahve another qustion Do armed response vehicles stay at the station or patrol?

They go on patrol and take regular calls like other units, and pull people over like other units. Our forces are so understaffed and underfunded that they need all the officers they can get. I have heard cases of armed officers having to drive back to the police station to pick up their weapons, and then go to the incident, but I doubt that happens much anymore.

They go on patrol and take regular calls like other units, and pull people over like other units. Our forces are so understaffed and underfunded that they need all the officers they can get. I have heard cases of armed officers having to drive back to the police station to pick up their weapons, and then go to the incident, but I doubt that happens much anymore.

 

Thanks. Yeah every armed patrol I was doing I was doing I would sit at the station and wait for a callout.

I have heard cases of armed officers having to drive back to the police station to pick up their weapons, and then go to the incident, but I doubt that happens much anymore.

 

Most armed units now carry all weapons on them, with their sub-machine guns in their vehicles kept within specially designed ballistic lock boxes. I do believe, however, that specialist equipment (marksman rifles, baton guns etc) are always kept at station armouries.

Just to confirm.

 

The 3 letters on the roof and sides of the cars (Now also on the rear windows with the new late 2014 / 2015 fleet) is completely random. As QuantumHD said they are just the vehicle identifier. There is only one exception to the lettering. DPG and Special Escort Group have numbers on their vehicles. For example a SCO19 ARV may have FDG as it's identifier but a DPG vehicle could have 12. (Some of the older DPG cars were also red they have stopped this now as the lower the resale value of cars).

 

I believe you was getting confused with these:

IRV: Incident Response Vehicle.

ARV: Armed Response Vehicle.

DSU: Dog Support Unit.

ASU: Air Support Unit.

POV: Public Order Vehicle.

I think there may be more but I can't remember anymore at the moment.

 

I hope this helps.

 

 

Edited December 29, 201411 yr by ObsidianGames

Thanks guys!