patrol car
noun
: a police automobile connected with headquarters by a two-way radio or computer : squad car
Placing an unarmed, compliant juvenile in the back of a patrol car transformed an investigatory stop into an arrest, the 9th Circuit held Aug. 24.—
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Local outlets have reported that the streets leading to the residence are taped off, and patrol cars were seen parked in the area on Tuesday morning.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 May 2024
After police took Miller to the city jail, an officer drove the patrol car to the city’s body shop for a damage estimate to the door.
—Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Buckner was traveling northbound through a green light at Sixth Avenue when he was hit by a turning vehicle that failed to yield to the patrol car.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
On March 31, Buckner, 31 and lead police officer for his midtown Tucson police district, was responding to a call in a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria patrol car, with its lights and siren on, when a crash occurred at around 10 p.m. at Campbell Avenue and Sixth Street just east of downtown Tucson.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Anderson later took the black bumper to his home after his shift ended before removing and hiding the broken parts from his patrol car’s front bumper, documents say.
—The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
Small put him inside a patrol car and fastened his seatbelt.
—Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
At that point, Kim wrote, the man stopped running and Kim tried to stop the patrol car to prevent a collision.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Another Florida State Guard recruit — a former Florida Highway Patrol trooper who lost his job after a viral video appeared to show him in a patrol car racing a Lamborghini on Alligator Alley in 2018 — was arrested by sheriff’s deputies during the February training camp.
—Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 May 2024
After police took Miller to the city jail, an officer drove the patrol car to the city’s body shop for a damage estimate to the door.
—Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Buckner was traveling northbound through a green light at Sixth Avenue when he was hit by a turning vehicle that failed to yield to the patrol car.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
On March 31, Buckner, 31 and lead police officer for his midtown Tucson police district, was responding to a call in a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria patrol car, with its lights and siren on, when a crash occurred at around 10 p.m. at Campbell Avenue and Sixth Street just east of downtown Tucson.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Anderson later took the black bumper to his home after his shift ended before removing and hiding the broken parts from his patrol car’s front bumper, documents say.
—The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
Small put him inside a patrol car and fastened his seatbelt.
—Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
At that point, Kim wrote, the man stopped running and Kim tried to stop the patrol car to prevent a collision.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Another Florida State Guard recruit — a former Florida Highway Patrol trooper who lost his job after a viral video appeared to show him in a patrol car racing a Lamborghini on Alligator Alley in 2018 — was arrested by sheriff’s deputies during the February training camp.
—Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
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