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Pawel_Nottingham

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Undercover police vehicles
« on: 05 July 2009, 00:12:42 »

Hi!

My mate and I have recently discovered that all the undercover police cars have number plates starting with 'FJ'. I am wondering if anyone have spotted that too. Is it a rule or just a coincidence? (I've seen about 5 of them so far)
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #1 on: 05 July 2009, 07:17:03 »

i never noticed that

ive got a police station just round the corner from me with alot of unmarked cars on the front i pass every day taking ann to work
if i remember ill have a look as i go past :y
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #2 on: 05 July 2009, 10:34:22 »

I'm sure that I have seen unmarked cars on Road Wars that don't have an FJ prefix.

In fact doesn't Simon on here have an ex TVP unmarked car that has an OY prefix???  :-/ :-/
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #3 on: 05 July 2009, 11:40:13 »

You'll find that in certain areas they may have the same prefix, but that is just because they are all registered in the same place. So FJ won't be on all unmarked cars. For example where I live in the Thames Valley (Oxford), OU, OY, OV can be found on police vehicles. Simply because these registrations are Oxfordshire registrations. Like in Wales a lot of police vehciels are CN, that happens to be the prefix for some part in Wales. And in London the Met police have a lot of LX, LV, LY plates, again because that's the prefix for the certain area that vehicles were registered. But you'll find all different registrations in all different forces so by all means they are not all the same.

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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #4 on: 05 July 2009, 11:48:05 »

the first two letters is the area code, so of course all ones local to you would have been registered in the same place.

xx-05-xxx

First 2 letters = area

2 numbers  = year

last 3 letters are random (although when buying new you can specify these)
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« Reply #5 on: 05 July 2009, 18:06:09 »

like a lot of the new thames water vans are fe 09 and some of the older ones are ro06.
Just because there all regiestered at the same place at the same time.
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #6 on: 05 July 2009, 18:41:20 »

There are a lot of unmarked vehicle that don't have FJ, most on roadwars with omega's in are OJ OV. Police vectras are OU etc  :)
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #7 on: 05 July 2009, 21:13:15 »

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Hi!

My mate and I have recently discovered that all the undercover police cars have number plates starting with 'FJ'. I am wondering if anyone have spotted that too. Is it a rule or just a coincidence? (I've seen about 5 of them so far)


It is probably the case in Nottingham.....FJ is a Nottingham reg........!!!

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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #8 on: 06 July 2009, 12:34:59 »

Thanks for the heads up guys:) BTW I didn't know that you have the area codes embedded in the plates' numbers :)
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Re: Undercover police vehicles
« Reply #9 on: 06 July 2009, 14:48:48 »

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Thanks for the heads up guys:) BTW I didn't know that you have the area codes embedded in the plates' numbers :)

notts and derby have a lot of FJ plates, i have seen some already, marked and unmarked, coming through the disposals 05s and 06s.
in dorset they are all HF and HG,  usualy easy to spot when they have big ass GPS sharkfins on the roof! lol
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