I think that it's pretty easy to suggest that the sort of cars that the Police use in various countries affects the way we view them. In the United States for a long time the almost de rigeur choice was the Ford Crown Victoria, a big wallowing car with terrible handling but which looks cool in car chases. In the UK the police are issued with dinky little cars like the Vauxhall Astra Diesel; it fits the image of PC Plod, funny hats and truncheons. In Germany the police are likely to be issued with a BMW 3 Series or Mercedes-Benz C Class (very classy and efficient).
In Australia, we give our police Commodores, Falcons and Camrys for the most part; average family hacks.
I think that that says that the police aren't really different from us normal people. Apart from the little zone of improved driving around a police car where everyone tries to do better because someone's watching they're the same as us... or maybe a little bit bogan.
PS: What is up with green? Why a green police car? I've even seen that icky purple that Holden have as well. Maybe the police really are just a little bit bogan.
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