What is Police car?
[[File:Singapore Police vehicle in 2020 National Day Parade.jpg|thumb|Singapore Police vehicle in 2020 National Day Parade]] [[File:Police BMW X5.JPG|thumb|Police BMW X5, with active visual warnings showing, escorts riders on the [[Tour of Britain]]]] A '''police car''' is a motor vehicle used by [[police]]. It is used to assist with their duties in patrolling and responding to [[:wikt:incident|incidents]]. Typical uses of a police car include [[:wikt:transportation|transportation]] for [[police officer|officers]] to reach the scene of an incident quickly. Police cars are also used to transport [[suspect]]s, or to [[:en:wikt:patrol|patrol]] an area. Some police cars are adapted for certain functions such as [[traffic]] control, to transport police [[dog]]s or [[bomb disposal]]. Police cars usually marked{{efn|Police cars are 'marked' with symbols or words (like 'Police') so the public can easily identify them.<ref>Chris Oxlade, ''Emergency Vehicles'' (Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, 2008), p. 12</ref>}} to identify them. There are two reasons for this: firstly, so that other drivers know to get out of the way of a police car that is rushing to a crime scene, and secondly so that the car can be a [[:en:wikt:deterrent|deterrent]] to [[crime]]. Police cars also have sirens and flashing lights which are also used when they rush to a crime scene. However, some police cars are unmarked, so that police can carry out work without being noticed. == History == In the [[United Kingdom]] in the early 1900s, police vehicles were first used to chase speeding motorists. This had very poor results until police [[schools]] were opened to teach officers how to use their vehicles properly.<ref>Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, ''Road Policing and Technology: Getting the Right Balance; Tenth Report of Session 2005-06'' (London: Stationery Office, 2006), p. 29</ref> In 1910 the first police car in the [[US]] was used in [[Akron, Ohio]].<ref name=Dempsey19>John Dempsey; Linda Forst, ''An Introduct