- Police bus
A police bus is a
bus used by thepolice for a variety of reasons.Depending on the use, police buses might have markings or a livery indicating its ownership by the police, and also have appropriate equipment fitted. Police buses can be ordinary vehicles, or have some degree of
riot protection, or be fully fittedarmoured bus es.Seated buses are used by police forces for transporting large numbers of officers to a needed area, such as for crowd control at sports events and demonstrations, or to facilitate large scale deployments for more serious riot control, such as the
UK miners' strike (1984–1985) . These may be hired vehicles, or vehicles retained by the police force for the purpose.Police buses are also used at some large events as static temporary holding and processing areas, where detained people can be processed, and held until onward transport in another vehicle is possible. Police buses may also serve as
prisoner transport vehicle s where the police force has responsibility for this.The police may also use buses converted by a bus manufacturer or other specialist company (from a new or retired
school bus -style body), to serve more specific purposes. This can be as an incident control room or mobilecommand post , or even as small mobile police stations for public events.Toronto Police Service have used retired transit buses for their fleet.Behind the scenes roles for converted police buses can include being used in public information or awareness campaigns, or as mobile
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