Ukraine license plate: Police

Issued today 2021 to today. Police plates for car, van, truck, bus, and machine, issued by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України / Головний сервісний центр МВС (ГСЦ МВС). One of 37 Ukraine license plates.

Ukraine license plate, Police (2021 to today), sample 18 3656

Format, years and the law

Format
99 9999, for example 18 3656 (9 any digit)

The only Ukrainian plate with no letters. The big four digits are just the vehicle's number; the decode hides in the small figure under the state arms, the two-digit numeric region code, 11 or 31 for Kyiv.

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

Years issued
2021 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Police: police fleets where distinct from government. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and machine.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #8CC8E8
Size
520 × 112 mm · every country's size
  • Ukraine license plate, Police 220×174 mm (2021 to today)

    Police 220×174 mm

    police · 220 × 174 mm

About this plate
NATIONAL POLICE. The only Ukrainian plate with no letters at all, and the only one on the світло-блакитний field. The six digits Додаток 2 counts include the two-digit region code printed small under the state arms, so the number a human reads off the plate is four digits.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Додаток 1 підтипи 11-1 / 11-2 «Знаки для всіх типів автомобілів, самохідних машин та механізмів Національної поліції України, що використовуються для забезпечення публічної безпеки і порядку»; Додаток 2 Таблиця 5 (520... https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21
  2. Зміна № 1 до ДСТУ 4278:2012, Додаток А тип 11: «16, код адміністративно-територіальної належності; 3412, порядковий номер» https://web.archive.org/web/20180328225320/http://www.sai.gov.ua/uploads/filemanager/file/zmina-1-dstu-4278.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-police-2021. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ukraine's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ua \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ua-police-2021")'