Police car painting and warning lights in 13 countries
There is a Chinese proverb: people depend on clothes, Buddhas depend on gold clothes. Well, cars rely on lighting and painting - especially police cars!
Highly visible paints and police signs can reduce the chance of traffic accidents due to the lack of visibility of the body, while allowing the police car to be clearly visible in daylight. At night, the red and blue lights are also easy to find. At the same time, it can deter illegal elements and create a safe atmosphere for the public.
In China, the use of warning lamps for special vehicles has the following unwritten provisions on color: special vehicles in the Public Inspection Law Division system use red and blue flashing lights, ambulances and blood collection vehicles use full blue lights, fire trucks use full red lights, and for engineering vehicles, snow shovels, water sprinklers, dung suction trucks, buses. Road emergency vehicles, obstacle clearance vehicles, sanitation vehicles, school bus lights special vehicles use full yellow lights, urban management use yellow and blue lights, road vehicles use red, yellow and blue lights.
Chinese Police Car
Why do we choose these two colors for the police lights?
From the color point of view, red is the primary color in the warm color system, with warning effect, while blue is the primary color in the cold color system, which represents alert and order.
In terms of the function of the warning lights, the main purpose of the warning lights is to warn pedestrians to make way for the police to take action. Of course, there are also some deterrents to criminals. The red and blue color contrast is more noticeable!
Chinese Police Car
Are the three colors of red, green and blue dominant in the painting of police cars around the world? Let's take a look at the painting of police cars in 13 countries.
China
First of all, we are most familiar with the most common Chinese police car painting, white background, blue pattern and blue-yellow stripes decoration, the body has a striking badge, public security and other signs. The lights on the roof are red and blue. In our memory, blue and white police cars are all over every street in China. Wherever the people need them, there will be lights flashing and people's policemen.
Chinese Police Car
Chinese Police Car
U.S.A
The American police car seems to be a frequent visitor in Hollywood movies, mostly in black or black-and-white coatings, with striking English POLICE logo on its body and red and blue lights on its head and roof. Their police cars are usually big, muscular men like Schwarzenegger or Johnson Stone. There are often fierce chases between American police cars and outlaws in movies.
American Police Car
In fact, the United States does not have uniform regulations for the painting of police cars, and police departments in all States and localities can paint according to the regulations of their own regions. So we can also find American police cars with blue and white stripes and yellow and green stripes.
American Police Car
The United Kingdom
British police car painting is very distinctive, it uses yellow and blue staggered grid painting, neatly arranged along the body, the grid arrangement is usually two lines, larger vehicles will add one line. This kind of painting also has a beautiful name "Battenburg lattice". Its design and application can be said to follow the physiological characteristics of human eyes. The name "Battenburg lattice" is named because it is very similar to the cross-sectional lattice pattern of "Battenburg cake". The body has a striking English POLICE logo, the tail has orange and yellow reflective oblique stripes, and the light on the roof is blue.
British Police Car
Early British police cars were painted with white background and red and blue stripes. There are orange-red, blue-yellow stripe decoration, or white, Blue-Orange stripe decoration plus white-blue double-color "Battenburg lattice". The police lights on the roof are blue, and in the early days there are red-blue double-color.
British Police Car
Australia
The Australian police car is painted like a racing car, with a white background and a white-blue two-color "Battenburg grid". The body has a striking English POLICE logo, and the light on the roof is red and blue.
Australian Police Car
Germany
German police car painting for the early silver-grey base, green stripe decoration, now silver-grey base, blue stripe decoration, the body has a striking German POLIZEI logo, the top of the lights are blue.
German Police Car
France
The painting of the French police car uses the color of the French flag, white background, red and blue stripe decoration, the body has a striking English POLICE logo, and the light on the roof is blue.
French Police Car
Italy
The Italian police car is painted with blue sky, white stripes, striking Italian POLIZIA logo on the body and blue light on the roof.
Italy Police Car
The United Arab Emirates
The UAE police car is painted white with green stripes, with a striking Arabic Police Logo on the body and red and blue lights on the roof. Others don't want to say anything more, let's watch the car. A knowledgeable friend can popularize the car model for everyone. It should be the strongest line-up on the surface.
The United Arab Emirates Police Car
Japan
The painting of Japanese police cars is similar to that of the United States, which is simple black and white. The car body has a striking Chinese character and English POLICE logo of the police hall, and the light on the roof is red.
Japanese Police Car
Korea
Korean police car is painted with white background, blue and yellow stripes. The body has a striking Korean police logo, English POLICE logo and badge. The light on the roof is red and blue.
Korea Police Car
Russia
The Russian police car is painted with silver-gray base and blue stripes. The lights on the roof of the car are blue and red-blue.
Russia Police Car
South Africa
South African police cars are painted with white background, yellow-blue checked flag stripes and yellow-blue stripes. The body has striking English POLICE logo and badge, and the light on the roof is blue.
South Africa Police Car
India
Indian police car painting is very simple, no decoration, white background plus red English POLICE logo. The lights on the roof are red and blue.
India Police Car
Here we have seen the painting of police cars in 13 countries. It is not difficult to find that except for most police cars in the United States and all police cars in Japan, the painting of other national police cars is based on scientific basis, using red, green and blue, which are the three most recognizable colors of human eyes.
