police car
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road motor vehicle used by the police force
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A police car is an emergency vehicle used by police for transportation during patrols and responses to calls for service. Police cars are used by police officers to patrol a beat, quickly reach incident scenes, and transport and temporarily detain suspects.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “police car” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.