Subj : Re: B0rked Operational Security
To   : warmfuzzy
From : k9zw
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 06:37:57

On 02 Sep 2022, warmfuzzy said the following...
 
 wa> This is just something that I've noticed on my own, it sorta came to me
 wa> when thinking about things that relate to other things... if you go to
 wa> your local cop shop look at the license plates on the cop cruisers and
 wa> the license plates on the unmarked vehicles or those vehicles owned by

True undercover vehicles will never even appear at the police station.

Unmarked is the intermediate class where police is not proclaimed, but they are not undercover.  Usually a trained eye can pick out unmarked cars as the fleet managers and communication geeks tend to leave their impress on unmarked.  

Not so much on undercover, where great lengths are taken to truly obscure or fully make secret ownership and usage.  

As for plates, the plates you see at the fleet storage location may be changed for operational purposes once away from the station.  

Undercover/Unmarked also can be divided by intended use.  Various types of surveillance lead to differing customizations, unrecognized high speep pursuit cars are done differently, and VIP/Asset protection are set up yet another way.  And their are leadership customizations for the leaders who get to use their unmarked vehicles personally just in case they might need to be called out.

There are other special unmarked and undercover vehicles beyond this, everything from covert air-monitoring sampler vechicles, to rendition vehicles, to pre-positioned operative escape vehicles, to covert medical trama vehicles, to bluntly prepositioned defensive/offensive armories or actual weaponry.

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