Mexico license plate: Police 2016

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

Mexico license plate, Police 2016 (2016 to today), sample AA-979R-3

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999L-9, for example AA-979R-3 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, truck, and van.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PATRULLAS, police and public-security fleets of every level below the federal police. A 2000-Acuerdo rule that the 2016 NOM does not repeat is worth recording here: ARTICULO NOVENO of the Acuerdo required that "los caracteres de identificación de las placas para las unidades de las diferentes corporaciones policiacas y de vigilancia deben corresponder al número económico que porte la unidad", the plate had to match the fleet number painted on the car.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 4 'Corporaciones Policiacas y de Vigilancia, Patrullas de todo tipo de vehículos, AA-000A-0' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice A Figura 10 'Corporaciones policiacas y de vigilancia vehículo' (siete caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-police-2016. 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-2016")'