# San Marino license plate: Police

> The San Marino police license plate: format 999, for example 378, documented since 1986, car, van, and motorcycle.

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Part of [San Marino license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino) (19 registration series).

![San Marino license plate, Police (documented since 1986)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-police/san-marino-license-plate-police.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1986 → today (documented from 1986; the format is likely older) |
| Class | police |
| Issued for | car, van, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 390 × 120 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #005387 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `sm-police` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/san-marino/police) |

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.

Sources:

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

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sm/sm-police.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/san-marino?series=sm-police
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sm` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "sm-police"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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