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Mexico license plate: Police 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2016. Police plates for car, truck, van, and motorcycle, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Police 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample 32-558
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-999, for example 32-558 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented 2001 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, truck, van, and motorcycle.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
One-back POLICE format, five DIGITS and nothing else, the only all-numeric series either NOM ever prescribed, and the direct consequence of the Acuerdo's rule that a patrol plate had to reproduce the vehicle's fleet number. The 2016 NOM abandons it for AA-000A-0.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice C row 4 'Corporaciones Policiacas y de Vigilancia, Todo tipo de vehículos, 00-000' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001
  2. Acuerdo ARTICULO NOVENO, the plate characters had to correspond to the unit's número económico https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=2060390&fecha=25/09/2000

Before and after

Mexico license plate, Police 2016 (2016 to today) Replaced by Police 2016 2016 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-police-2001. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-police-2001")'
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