Edit: I’m talking colloquially not like official reporting language or anything.
In mine we call them G-Rides as in government rides but I’m curious what others refer to their vehicles as?
Also low key I’ve been getting clips from that show the rookie on my feed of late and it got me wondering if LAPD actually refers to their vehicles as “The Shop”? Cause that just seems too Hollywood cringe to me
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"The Shop" is definitely Hollywood cringe. Car or cruiser is what we call them.
NYPD is an RMP radio motor patrol each has a different #
If anyone ever called their car The Shop at my agency, the amount of shit talking they would be on the receiving end of would be insane.
Car.
We call them patrol cars or units
Just it’s number so 1-20.
"I’ll be in 4"
Green-and-White.
Unit
Patrol vehicle in police reports, or simply a car when talking in real life. We’re normal at my agency.
We call our patrol vehicles “cars”.
Squad.
"Shop" is cringy as hell.
PC – patrol car, pronounced pee-cee
G-Rides? Are you 0083 or 1811 by chance?
Shit box
“The Truck” or “My Truck” or “The Rig”
Truck, van or "divi" for divisional van.
Car
We call them GV’s
G ride is what we call stolen vehicles
Squad
Agency vehicle usually if we actually need to differentiate between it and our personal vehicle, otherwise it’s just “my car” or “my vehicle.”
Just about anything else I think is kinda dumb at best and calling it “my shop” is really fucking stupid.
"My car" or whatever her name is. Mine is Marina.
I’ll just throw in cruiser since no one else mentioned it yet.
Normally it’s your “rig” or “take home” since in king county (Seattle) most agencies here have take home cars
Car and "patrol vehicle" in a report
Shop
My hoe….TAhoe that is
car or squad.
I once referenced it as a land yacht in call details.
In feds it’s G-ride or GOV.
I just say “my car” and his name is Jadaveon 😁
My ride or my truck (even if it’s a Tahoe)
Shop,
At my department we either say “squad car, patrol car, or unit”.
You won’t believe it, but literally just… Car.
Shop is also used in the Huston/Harris Co area.
Cruisah’- we don’t pronounce ‘R’s here
It costs nothing to be normal here
“My Car”
“Cruiser 123” for a report.
That POS with 200k+ on it
Not a patrol vehicle, but FBI agents call their vehicles Bucars.
We call them “pandas” in the UK. For ordinary patrol vehicles
"Shop"
Houston Police
RMP
Car / squad. I say car 99% of the time
Unofficially= POS farm truck
Reports= Patrol vehicle
RMP (Radio Motor Patrol) NYPD
Unit or cruiser.
Unit
Cruiser, others in dept call them “sleds”
That’s interesting, we also call them g-rides in the fed.
Scout car
It’s just my take home, dude. If we’ve established that we’re talking about our patrol cars we just say “my car” “your car” etc.
car, unit, squad car
Squad car.
unit.
We call ours "g-rides", "rides", and "vehicles".
EDIT: We also call them "Kilos", Mike units", "Echo units" and so forth, which is in reference to the vehicle type code. Kilo is pickup truck, Mike is SUV, Echo is sedan, etc.
Current agency calls them "fleets", fleet 165 etc. My whole career it’s been a car or truck and that’s what I still say. Everyone else can say my fleet needs an oil change, well my car needs an oil change. I’m old an crusty and not conforming lol.
Creamy pony or black lightning. Depends if I’m driving the white or black one.
We call them RMP’s ( Radio Motor Patrol ) back in the day , wayyyyyyyy back, the cars had radios in them. And god forbid my department ever changes anything cultural or traditional…
Hotel security here, don’t have patrol cars because mostly that’d just be weird but we have golf carts.. I call mine Martha, like for Martha Stewart… because she’s old ( the oldest cart we have) white, she actually ended up in the police impound for a little bit so she did a lil time, smokes a lil bit when you get her going and may be old but still goin strong…
Fucking POS Ford
Oh, you mean the shit boxes?
Patrol truck, rig, car
Cruiser
Patrol truck, patrol vehicle or boat since I’ve got a Ram 2500 with a turning radius of 3 business days.
Work truck
PIU pronounced pee-eye-you. Because that’s what they are. Except the Tahoes. Those get called hoes.
“PC” short for police car not personal computer
We called our Scientific Investigations Unit trucks… wait for it… The truck
In 2002 I drove a Tahoe named Arnie’s hearse. Arnie was a supervisor that would pick up the dead bodies in the desert. He retired, but his truck kept the name.
Car in general, squad specifically.
On a call asking for a second unit? “Can you sent another car / unit”
Giving direction to another officer / trainee? “Put your car / squad in the left turn lane to block that traffic.”
We actually use shop at my agency. Not sure where it originated for us but everyone I’ve met in my agency uses it. Reports I’ll just say patrol vehicle
What, nobody uses, "prowler" anymore ?
shop
“Vic” around here
A car. I.e. can you go move my car up out of the way of the ambulance
Ranfla is what we call it in East Los.
We call them shops.
Squad or unit at my dept.
A patrol vehicle
Cruiser
PIU
RMP
Pretty sure its an east coast/NY thing
According to Buck Savage, it’s a MOP
In Ontario, "Cruiser".
Except in Toronto, some old guys call them "Scout cars". I don’t get it.
Refer to ours by their assigned fleet number, mine is 243.
Squad car if you’re driving a PIU or a charger; “the truck” if you’re in a F-150 or Silverado.
1.Black & White
2.Car
3.Vic