China license plate: Police car
Issued today 2007 to today. Police plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9999, for exampleU8269(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The red 警, 警车, police vehicle, closes the serial, but the front of the number does not decode like a civil plate: police plates are issued by each provincial department, not by city offices, so the office letter is not the city key it usually is.
- 警
- 警车 (police vehicle)
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2007 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 440 × 140 mm · every country's size
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
- gov.cn https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/2026/issue_12586/202602/content_7059934.html
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-police-car-2007. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-police-car-2007")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-police-car-2007.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-police-car-2007/template.svg
