RO04 EYM This Durham Honda Fireblade is fitted with a number of blue flashing lights in the form of small LED clusters. It is normally supported by a Honda ST1100 police bike when out on duty.



The rear view of this rare police bike. Notice the amount of open space there is at the rear compared to a traditional touring motorbike. Also striking is the twin exhaust pipes that emerge from below the seat. The blue flashing light is mounted immediately above the rear red light.

NK04 VED This Harley Davison police motorbike is minimally liveried. The blue flashing lights are mounted low down at the front.

RE53 WWM This is a Durham Honda VTR.



The rear view.

NK04 GRF is a blue Northumbria Police Honda CBR. It carries some livery, including a few force badges and a wide yellow stripe on the fairings.

P601 WUM A very unusual form of police transport: a Suzuki motorbike and sidecar. The blue three-wheeled combination is liveried in yellow checkers and carries ‘police’ signage but not blue lights. This vehicle is for advertising and is not operational.

F827 OJR The iconic Norton Commander. Carrying Durham Constabulary livery, this preserved motorbike has the blue flashing and white lights mounted behind the glass that forms the windscreen.



The rear view of the Norton. This style of bike was popular with police forces throughout the UK in the 1980s and early 90s. Notice the illuminable ‘stop’ sign and the rear light clusters that are mounted into the panniers.

The rear aspect of a police VW Golf V6 4Motion. This demonstration car does not have any police wording! It was used by Gloucestershire Constabulary around 1997/8 as a traffic car. The poor ground clearance meant that they did not buy any after the evaluation.

Both of Northumbria Police’s Polaris jetskis. Decked out in battenburg livery, these personal watercraft (PWC), more commonly called jetskis, are very manoeuvrable and have 1200cc engines that can take the rider (and two passengers) up to 60mph. They follow from the success of a trial in 1993.

NK54 MYP is a Northumbria Police Volvo S60.

NK54 NAU The rear view of a similar S60. Notice the variable message matrix sign in the centre of the lightbar. For example, it can alternate between moving chevrons “> > > >” then “TURN RIGHT” to direct traffic.

LX03 AEK This is a Met police 2003 Ford Fiesta in silver. Note the lack of blue flashing lights, meaning that it is used for non-emergency response work.

SV54 BPE This is one of a fleet of Grampian Police Range Rovers. It is fitted with a turbo diesel engine and a tiptronic transmission.



The rear view of this workhorse.

YX53 KME Humberside police introduced Proton Impians into their fleet from 2003. The Impian is very similar in appearance to the Persona model, which is also used.

YW52 LKK This Volvo V70 is used for patrolling by traffic police officers. Notice that Humberside police have not adopted the battenburg paint scheme (along with a handful of other forces, including Durham)



The rear view of the Volvo. It has a LPG conversion, which is inkeeping with Humberside’s mission of running only LPG or diesel vehicles. It may also be one of the last Volvos as Humberside considers moving to an all-Proton fleet.

S764 MKH A Humberside Ford Transit, fitted with only two rotating beacons.

AU53 GCX This is a Norfolk Constabulary Ford Focus, with high-visibility rear and sparse livery on the rest of the bodywork. Inset: the front.

X48 XNG This Norfolk Ford Escort has the same minimal livery as the Focus. It is also fitted with a smaller light bar, and carries force advertising on the bonnet.



The rear and nearside.

AO02 OHY is a Norfolk Ford Galaxy people carrier. Its livery is very different to the above cars. It carries full battenburg markings, blue repeater lights on the front grille and the force website address at the foot of the door sills. Also notice the directional white spot lamp of the roof.



The rear view. The Galaxy has heavily tinted glass on the rear window and rearmost side windows.

R821 EEX This dated livery belongs to a Norfolk police Vauxhall Astra. Note the rear ‘police’ sign and the large pennant in the rear screen.

Y283 WVV This North Yorkshire Police Vauxhall Astra gets a special award for one of the worst liveries on a UK emergency vehicle. It is a one-off sponsored vehicle which is used for non-urgent work. On the rear of the vehicle is an advert for a carpet company, with the tag line “Pulling the rug on crime”!

YJ54 VLD A far more sensible NYP Ford Focus, carrying the non-emergency telephone number of the front wings, and Crimestoppers number on the rear.

YJ04 CEF An overhead look at a NYP collision investigation Mercedes van. It does not have any roof markings, and only a double rotating blue light on the roof. Blue strobes are also drilled into the reverse light and headlight clusters.

YJ04 CFK A double overhead look at a North Yorks. Volvo V70 which is used for road policing. It has an oval lightbar and rear-facing, roof-mounted ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera.

H467 STH is a preserved Rover 827. This car is powered by a 2.7 litre Honda V6 engine driving the front wheels.



The rear view. This model of Rover saw service with many police forces throughout the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

W42 KFE is a Ford Escort van used by the dog section of Lincolnshire Police.

R364 KFL is a Ford Explorer four wheel drive used by Wiltshire Constabulary. This vehicle carries a rather faded version of the force’s old livery. It is equipped with a large telescopic pole which comes out of the roof to provide lighting at an incident.W

We now have a Suzuki GSX R motorbike. Although it carries police markings, it is not equipped with blue lights.

MK04 ZWS is another Mercedes Benz E-class demonstrator.

Here we have a Ford Focus estate designed to be used for the carrying of police dogs. Notice how on this demonstrator vehicle the side windows are silvered out in the rear of the car to hide the dog cages. It also has a roof mounted air vent for the dogs.

We now have a Ford Galaxy people carrier in police markings.