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Poland license plate: Police

Issued today Documented since 2025. Police plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Police (documented since 2025), sample HPM I156
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Format, years and the law

Format
HPL L999, for example HPM I156 (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
Documented since 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 114 mm · every country's size
About this plate
U. 2025 poz. 1326 is merely the latest in a chain running back through Dz. U. 2023 poz. 1778, Dz. U. 2019 poz. 560, Dz. U. 2017 poz. 447, Dz. U. 2011 nr 195 poz. 1160 and further, none of which was read here, so 2025 is the date of the instrument that STATES the rule and NOT the date the HP prefix began.
Region code notes
But note § 5 ust. 2 pkt 2 and § 6: a service may equally register a vehicle under an ORDINARY voivodeship+powiat number, and must do so for vehicles that are NOT liveried ("Tablic rejestracyjnych, które zawierają wyróżnik województwa i powiatu, nie stosuje się do oznakowanych pojazdów służb"). So an H plate implies a marked service vehicle, while an unmarked one wears a civil plate that no parse can distinguish.
How numbers are issued
§ 5 ust. 2 pkt 1: the service wyróżnik, then ONE letter from the 25-letter set, then the vehicle wyróżnik, which by ust. 4 is either a letter and three digits 001-999 or two digits 01-99 and two letters. Seven characters in total.

Legal basis and sources

  1. rozporządzenie MSWiA z 30 września 2025 r. w sprawie rejestracji pojazdów Służby Ochrony Państwa, Policji, ABW, AW, CBA, Straży Granicznej i KAS wykorzystywanych przez Służbę Celno-Skarbową: § 5 ust. 2-4 (the number... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2025/1326/text/O/D20251326.pdf

This plate in your app

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

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