Say, if you are a police officer and you have for example a 1974 Dodge Monaco, with the stripes of your city's PD still on it. Would it be legal to work in and also could you drive it around? I hope you understand, cheers. (It does not have to be a Monaco, I am just meaning an old police car (pre 1980's)
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For liability reasons, you can only drive a city owned vehicle. There would be too many legal issues if you got in an accident. If the car broke down, there would be issues on who would pay to get it fixed, or worse yet... legal issues if you didn't make it to a priority call because of car failure.
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Tropper is right except for one option. If an officer restored a vehicle (its done all the time BTW) and has a written agreement with the city/county s/he may drive said vehicle is community events like parades, copshop events, BBQs and the like. As a regular patrol vehicle, nope.
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They could most likely drive it around as a personal vehicle. As long as they are not using the siren or taking actions that would make people think they are an on duty police officer. There are people who drive around i old police cars all the time, some that even have sirens on top. Most of them are wanna be cops who cause a lot of problems but many times what they are doing is legal in the State of Washington.
