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Spain license plate: Police

Issued today Documented since 1999. Police plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Police (documented since 1999), sample CNP-165328
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Format, years and the law

Format
CNP-999999, for example CNP-165328 (9 any digit)

CNP stands for Cuerpo Nacional de Policía; Guardia Civil vehicles wear PGC, Parque de la Guardia Civil, instead.

CNP
Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (National Police Corps)
PGC
Parque de la Guardia Civil (Civil Guard vehicle pool)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1999; 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, and motorcycle.
About this plate
NATIONAL POLICE (CNP) and GUARDIA CIVIL (PGC).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII II.B: CNP and PGC, both under the Dirección General de la Policía y de la Guardia Civil https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-police-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-police-1999")'
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