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Police in the United Kingdom use a wide range of operational vehicles, including compact cars, powerful estates and armoured police carriers. The main uses are patrol, response, tactical pursuit, and public order policing. Other vehicles used by British police include motorcycles, aircraft, and boats.
A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...
The Joint Military Police Unit utilise white patrol vehicles with blue and white Sillitoe tartan markings and "Military Police" written in red. The Naval Police Coxswain Branch of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force Police use similar patrol cars, with "Naval Police" and "Service Police" written instead of "Military Police ...
Former Royal Hong Kong Police Force PTU Saracen armoured vehicle on display in Fanling. British Hong Kong – Royal Hong Kong Police Force: Fourteen Saracens were delivered to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force in 1970 for use as personnel carriers by the force's Police Tactical Unit (PTU), formed following the 1967 Hong Kong riots.
In the wake of the 2011 riots in the UK and the success of the Pangolin Armoured Public Order Vehicles used in Northern Ireland, some British police forces approached the OVIK Group [25] to recycle former Snatch Land Rovers into cost effective Public Order Vehicles. This led to the creation of the Phoenix – B6+ Armoured Vehicle.
Pages in category "Military vehicles of the United Kingdom" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Armoured cars of the United Kingdom (1 C, 32 P) Armoured personnel carriers of the United Kingdom (13 P) R. Reconnaissance vehicles of the United Kingdom (10 P) S.
The cars currently used are armoured, custom built Range Rover Sentinel supercharged 5.0 litre V8 models and armoured Audi A8L models. [1] [2] Prime ministerial and ministerial limousines are operated and administered by the Government Car Service, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, and stored and maintained at 10 Downing Street.