Find an LEO's Name by license plate number

[asianfire]

I was curious as to if there is a way to find the officer of a particular car?

[RW'07]

Unless is a special vehicle (fully unmarked), the first 2 digits of the cruiser's number (NOT the license plate) are the one of the local police dept (or division, or precinct, etc.), so look in the phone book and find the address of that police station, go over there and ask for that police officer (they will ask you for the entire cruiser number, 4 digits in total)... good luck :wink:

[hockey005]

never knew that

[RW'07]

Originally Posted by hockey005

never knew that

I live in Toronto, size of Chicago, 17 divisions, first 2 digits of the 4-digit cruiser number is the one of its division, for instance cruiser 4100 is 41 division and vehicle 00...

[asianfire]

So does that work for US police too???????

[RW'07]

Originally Posted by asianfire

So does that work for US police too???????

I think so, at least for a big city like NYC, Chicago or LA... but there are exceptions even for a large city, police cruisers with odd numbers assigned to multiple divisions, for instance cruiser 741 in Toronto, there is no such division in Toronto to start with number 7 so for that cruiser you will have to call or go directly to the head office and inquire about cruiser 741...

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/orgchart.pdf

[SmaartAasSaabr]

I don't know if you can, I would think the cars to be semi-randomly selected each time they go out (unless they needed a car with particular properties, eg undercover).

[asianfire]

My neighbor is a VA State cop and he drives the same car all the time. Now there are two cars and I want to see who the other person is, perhaps an "office" romance?

Btw, I got 1.5 miles over two small hills today on K band.

[Nighthawk243]

Some officers get their own vehicles (my neighbor is the only Sheriff dept K9 unit, so he gets to take his Explorer home.), but alot of officers share the vehicles. My locals usually use a different car on each outing.

[Stealth 795]

About half the Baltimore city police cars dont have any numbers at all...

Baltimore city police has "bogus" numbers on there cars sometimes, they call them shop numbers, each car goes in the garage for repairs pretty often..Never understand why the city dont do id numbers on the cars..


Baltimore County is way different but, same as was explained farthur up in this post... Lets say theres a precint 9. Then theres 4 sectors in that area starting from 1 to 4, then 6 or so offficers working in each sector..
Perfect Example being;, unit 912<precint 9 sector one and the second highest lever cop for that sector. 921<precinct 9 sector two officer #1 ect...

I figured that out via the police scanner thru the years....