South Africa license plate: Police B
Issued today Documented since 2000. Police plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Department of Transport (national) and the MEC responsible for road traffic in each of the nine provinces. One of 20 South Africa license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999 B, for exampleZOT 758 B(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 2000; 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
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 113 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Like reg 27(5)(a) this limb is permissive ("may consist of"), so SAPS vehicles on ordinary provincial numbers exist. Metropolitan police departments are municipal, not SAPS, and are not covered by this limb.
Legal basis and sources
- reg 27(5)(b), verbatim: the licence number of a motor vehicle 'the owner of which is the South African Police Service, may consist of three letters, three figures, followed by the letter B'; reg 21A/25(2)(f) confirms... https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
- GG 37542 GN 287 of 9 April 2014 reproducing reg 27(5)(b) identically https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/37542gen287.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is za-police-b. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Africa's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/za \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "za-police-b")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-police-b.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/za/za-police-b/template.svg
