The title explains it. Do anybody else notice unmarked squad/government cars in public? I notice them on the highway really easily, probably because of LCPDFR lmao.

wait you mean irl or ingame?

wait you mean irl or ingame?

IRL. He's just relating it to LCPDFR, because LCPDFR has shown him every government vehicle their is (mods, pursuits, etc.)

I notice them often around big events in Detroit.

I've seen unmarked units here and there, since it's relatively easy to spot the lights inside of the car. The antennas and spotlights usually give them away, too.

The Wisconsin State Patrol has been handing out a lot of unmarked Explorers lately. I always look at the license plate of a vehicle, however, and can usually tell the difference solely on that. Also, if I'm on the interstate and am going to pass a black or blue Explorer, I can usually tell if it's a law enforcement officer by the trim level of the vehicle. Agencies typically don't buy the XLT models (the highest trim level). On the other hand, in the village where my vacation cabin is, they ride around in "undercover" cars that have regular plates! Their patrol vehicles are fully unmarked as well; they just have a lightbar equipped and official plates as opposed to their "undercover" vehicles. I'm always cautious about my speed up there. 

Most agencies have various 'levels' of unmarked units. The ones they really don't want you to know that are police cars, you won't ever notice. An agency near me uses two of these 4 cars I'm about to list as undercover units, neither of which have any visible antennas, lights, or license plates that would differ them from any other civilian vehicle on the road: 1) PT Cruiser, 2)VW Bug 3)Smart Car 4)Nissan Leaf

I don't normally see unmarked vehicles as Police Scotland normally patrol in fully marked vehicles but the ones that I have saw have really obvious lights on the grille, the antennas are also a give away and that officers driving them are normally in uniform.

I saw some Oregon State Police undercover F-350s and Ford Explorers when swat was securing a road when Obama visited my city four days ago

It's extremely easy to spot police vehicles, marked or not if you know to look out for them. They have certain trim traits, as mentioned above. The seemingly random cars mentioned earlier such as the VW Bug or Nissan Leaf are likely surveillance cars that disguise undercover police officers monitoring things like drug activity. You more than likely won't see them conducting traffic stops. They'll call in a marked unit for that.

In Ohio, any police officer conducting traffic enforcement are required to have permanent markings and lighting, This may have something to do with happenings in the past few years where civilians pretending to be cops have been pulling over cars and harassing drivers and some have even sexually assaulted drivers.

 

But you can still have officers driving unmarked vehicles for official business such as detectives making their rounds on their open cases to uniformed officers driving department issue fleet vehicles to drive them to and from court. I have even heard of uniformed officers driving their personally owned vehicles to get to and from court.

 

In my city, they drive Chevrolet Malibu's and Ford Fusions, nothing special about them except for the random mirror or sunshade lights as well as a few of them with rear deck lights, I have also seen an old Ford Taurus that has a full size light bar that isnt permanently mounted to the car, as in the driver places it on top when conducting road blocks for city events.

 

The above mentioned Chevy Malibu's all have similar state issued license plates, civilian plates,but all of them start with the letters "EEF" followed by sequenced numbers. The cars are all also the same grey color, but the Fusions are different colors.

at least a third of Metro Nashville Police is unmarked 06-11 impalas. i swear they use them the most. usually charcoal color or black, sometimes they are red though. no rambar, usually have spotlights and steelies. and a plethora of antennas....some have hubcaps and side lighting on the door and mirrors, almost all are tinted dark.

I was at a mall in Massachusetts a year or so ago and there was somebody important there; maybe a former president or governor or something. In the midst of the mall security and local police roaming around, I saw a black Tahoe with US government plates scanning the exterior.

I was at a mall in Massachusetts a year or so ago and there was somebody important there; maybe a former president or governor or something. In the midst of the mall security and local police roaming around, I saw a black Tahoe with US government plates scanning the exterior.

I would certainly hope so. "Nah f*ck it, we'll take our chances."

I don't normally see unmarked vehicles as Police Scotland normally patrol in fully marked vehicles but the ones that I have saw have really obvious lights on the grille, the antennas are also a give away and that officers driving them are normally in uniform.

I've seen a lot of unmarked cars in Scotland, but like you said, 9 times out of 10 the officers are usually in uniform with their high-vis jackets on. Not fooling anyone.

I've seen a lot of unmarked cars in Scotland, but like you said, 9 times out of 10 the officers are usually in uniform with their high-vis jackets on. Not fooling anyone.

I dunno if they're for the purpose of fooling anyone. With radar and laser speed detectors, people will often speed of drive recklessly when approaching the cruiser, and by the time they put 2 and 2 together, it's already too late and a traffic stop is now in their immediate future.

Edited October 16, 201510 yr by unr3al

Where I live I've seen a couple different undercover vehicles in use, which surprised me. Most notably I saw a Dodge Ram (the newest one) that had pulled over a car just before an on ramp. It's incredibly difficult to distinguish whether or not it's a Police vehicle or not, up until the lights are on - especially if you're in a car more lowered to the ground because you can't really see any of the lights in the rear and it doesn't have any markings or antennas. I wouldn't of expected Dodge Ram's as a Police vehicle, perhaps in the Country but I live in a city populated by half a million people, so it just added that much more surprise. 

Other than that I've come across unmarked Tahoe's and a Chevy Cruze here and there.  

NYPD has the typical unmarked patrol cars but also has what's called non descript cars that even have out of state license plates and are not your average patrol car and can be any type of car for example there was a narcotics unit using a Mitsubishi Galant with a loud stereo system in it

In the California Highway Patrol, only a few people get undercover vehicles, Captains and Lieutenant commanders get undercover Crown Victorias, Chiefs get undercover Dodge Chargers, and SWAT get take-home undercover Chevy SUVs. So where I live, I don't see many undercover vehicles

In my city there are just a few of them. I mostly see them doing traffic enforcement.
 

I too have seen many of undercover vehicles being used. According to forum juridique undercover vehicles should not be used.