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San Marino license plate: Police

Issued today Documented since 1986. Police plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Police (documented since 1986), sample 378
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Format, years and the law

Format
999, for example 378 (9 any digit)

One word covers three forces: the single POLIZIA legend serves all the Republic's corps, Gendarmeria, Polizia Civile and Guardia di Rocca, so nothing on the plate tells you which one is behind the wheel.

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

Years issued
Documented since 1986; 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, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #005387 Background #FFFFFF
Size
390 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • San Marino license plate, Police 300×100 mm (documented since 1986)

    Police 300×100 mm

    police · 300 × 100 mm

About this plate
POLICE. ONE SERIES COVERS ALL THE CORPS: the current text says "Corpi di Polizia" in the plural and prescribes a single POLIZIA legend.
Format notes
THE SERIAL IS THE THREE DIGITS; "POLIZIA" IS PLATE FURNITURE, and the instrument supports that reading rather than merely permitting it. DD 132/2022 art. 4 lit. b describes the word as "iscritta in un rettangolo a rilievo", inscribed in a RAISED RECTANGLE, of 80x29 mm on the front plate and 103x37 mm on the rear, with a 3 mm stroke. A badge whose size differs between the front and rear plates is not a serial character; it is a device, like the arms. Decreto 151/1986 art. 2 lit. b had a single 95x37 mm rectangle. SECOND REASON, and it is the honest one: the human-pattern DSL cannot spell a literal "L", the lint reads every L in a pattern as "any letter", so "POLIZIA 999" would generate "POIIZIA 692". Even had the word been serial-significant it could not be written here.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DD 132/2022 art. 4 lit. b https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html
  2. Decreto 151/1986 art. 2 lit. b and art. 3 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/documento17020523.html

This plate in your app

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

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