Portugal license plate: Police GNR

Issued today 2005 to today. Police plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, Police GNR (2005 to today), sample GNR V-90

Format, years and the law

Format
GNR L-99, for example GNR V-90 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

No abbreviation to crack, the force writes its initials in full: GNR is the Guarda Nacional Republicana, Portugal's gendarmerie. What the PSP, the civilian urban police, puts on its vehicles is, genuinely, undocumented.

GNR
Guarda Nacional Republicana (National Republican Guard)

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
2005 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
About this plate
GUARDA NACIONAL REPUBLICANA. Their absence is a gap, not a claim that they use ordinary plates.

Legal basis and sources

  1. pt.wikipedia.org https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matr%C3%ADculas_de_autom%C3%B3veis_em_Portugal

This plate in your app

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

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