# Austria license plate: Police

> The Austria police license plate: format BP-999999, for example BP-695779, 2002 to today, car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Austria license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria) (18 registration series).

![Austria license plate, Police (2002 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-police/austria-license-plate-police.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `BP-999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 2002 → today |
| Class | police |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 520 × 120 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `at-police` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria/police) |

BP is the Bundespolizei, ahead of a digits-only official serial. Just don't run the logic backwards: the law lets security services register unmarked cars under cover plates, so the absence of BP proves nothing about the car behind you.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `BP` | Bundespolizei | federal police |

Sources:

- [§ 26 Abs. 4 lit. a: 'für Fahrzeuge, die zur Verwendung im Bereich der Bundespolizei bestimmt sind, BP'; Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. a.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26)
- [§ 48 Abs. 1 Z 2 and Abs. 1a: security-service vehicles may additionally hold one or more DECKKENNZEICHEN, which look like ordinary plates.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=48)

## About this plate

BUNDESPOLIZEI. The one thing this series cannot tell you: § 48 Abs. 1 lets security fleets carry several Deckkennzeichen, so an unmarked police car deliberately does not read as BP. It was the BUNDESGENDARMERIE code BG, repealed as the tidy-up of the 1 July 2005 merger of the Gendarmerie into the Bundespolizei, which is why lit. a's BP survives and lit. b does not. The repeal citations themselves are confirmed verbatim (BGBl. II Nr. 275/2007 Z 19, "§ 26 Abs. 4 lit. b entfällt."; BGBl. II Nr. 376/2002 Z 8, "§ 26 Abs. 4 lit. d entfällt."). A BG plate is a real string a parse API will meet: the Gendarmerie ran a national fleet under this KDV for thirty-seven years.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-police.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/austria?series=at-police
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/at` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "at-police"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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