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European police authorities prefer some cars which are commonly called “luxury cars” elsewhere, mostly of local production.However, you can frequently find one American brand used as police cars in Europe, and this brand is Ford. European Ford cars are developed and mostly produced in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and so their state police uses Ford S-Max and other models (not exclusively):Picture: Ford (promotion material)The Bavarian police commonly uses “Bimmers” (BMW), which are manufactured there:Picture (C) Marco Verch; License: Creative Commons - Attribution 2.0 Generic - CC BY 2.0The state of Baden-Württemberg prefers Mercedes-Benz models which are produced in their capital city of Stuttgart:Picture (C) Zwiadowca21; unmodified; License: Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - CC BY-SA 4.0In the German state of Saxony, police often uses Volkswagen cars, which are also produced there:Picture (C) Freistaat Sachsen; License: Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland - CC BY-SA 3.0 DEBut also non-local, however European makes are used, for example this Alfa Romeo of the Polish police:Picture (C) Assolut; License: Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported - CC BY-SA 3.0By the way, on this picture you can see how many items usually have to be stowed in a police vehicle:Picture (C) IM NW (press release); Source (in German language) with one more picture: POL-MG: First Ford S-Max taken into operation as a patrol car in MönchengladbachEDIT: As some wondered whether such cars are suitable for chasing someone, and for arrests: They are. Watch this video, where you see Dutch police (the white and the dark blue cars) crossing into Germany, following a white small van, and finally arresting the driver (German police are the blue and yellow marked cars, and the German officers are those without the yellow reflective patches):Remark: At around 0:10, the border had been crossed, and later on (0:34), a Dutch police car crashes into a car waiting at traffic lights.EDIT TWO: How this complies with competition rules: A larger police force does not buy the vehicles “off the shelf”, but enters into use studies, this involving users (police constables), developing prototypes of several police vehicles for different use cases (e.g. one for rural use, one for normal patrolling, one for larger scenarios, and so on). Manufacturers can participate in this, but all that development work makes only sense if your engineering or development capabilites are quite near. For a U. S. manufacturer, it might be too costly and cumbersome to be present in Cologne, Warsaw, Barcelona, or Bologna twice a week just to tailor-make a police vehicle and perhaps win a tender for 2000 police vehicles within three years, or less. For local producers, this also is not the best deal ever - it is a public relations effort rather. They would probably neither make big wins, nor big losses with the delivery of those vehicles. Later on, additional vehicles can be ordered from the same manufacturer because it is a reasonable argument that technical compability should be maintained. The framework contracts are usually newly concluded every five years. For example, a partial shift of the police in North Rhine-Westphalia from BMW to Ford was the result of such a re-design exercise, which took some years.[1]Footnotes[1] https://www.gdp.de/gdp/gdpnrw.nsf/id/43F1F38BE8557D84C12582F0003E69D5/$file/NRW_GdP_9_18_s1-8_Internet.pdf?open

I think the case for police driving skills and vehicles is over stated. Firstly, the police do have high speed training, but I wouldn't really characterise them as high speed driving experts.Nor would I really describe most police drivers as terribly experienced at truly high speed pursuits. I would happily agree that a police driver is going to be more skilled than your average member of the public. But I would suggest a typical driving enthusiast will be on a par and a track day regular or amateur racer will typically be more skilled in terms of car control.Then there's the vehicles themselves. Police patrol cars are not typically set up to handle. They're set up to be quick and stable in a straight line. Putting aside issues like helicopter assistance and road blocking techniques, you wouldn't need a terribly exotic sports car to put distance between yourself and a patrol car.All of this is high academic as they do have helicopters and radios and other tools to offset any ground speed advantage you may have. Never mind the fairly catastrophic safety and legal implications of trying to outrun the police!

There are no intentional differences, at least in the United States. There may be differences, but it is due to logistics and the manufacturer of the siren. One example is that in an ambulance, they typically go with a either a Whelen or Federal Signal siren box. These two sound somewhat similar. Police and fire vehicles may also go with these. A relative newcomer is Feniex, which has a rather unique sound. Larger law enforcement departments though, go with an integrated system that ties together many devices into one interface. They maybe integrating a computer, multiple two-way radios, lights and possibly other devices besides the siren. The brand of the siren may be different, so its sound may vary. Another variance may be on a police motorcycle. A siren box made for a car may be too big to install on the motorcycle, so again, it may sound different. With all this, they may sound different, but it is not necessarily to sound different, just that they’re using different manufacturers or models for a particular build.