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Took this picture a few years ago in PEI.
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I actually did drive that once. It was initially used by the FIS (Forensic Identification Section), commonly know as "Ident", the officers who dust for fingerprints and gather other evidence at crime scenes, hence the 9F13 identifier. It was a pig on gas, not very comfortable to drive, and took a football field to turn. It was based out of the RCMP office near the Maypoint plaza.

Once it got to a certain mileage, it was replaced with a white Tahoe, as they moved away from marked vehicles for FIS members as they often have their heads down, intently examining scenes, without an armed member to cover them. I believe that vehicle is now used for towing a Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) vehicle and is parked at the GSAR base near Charlottetown Airport, where I believe the photo was taken.

When you see a marked RCMP vehicle on the road, the letter in the identifying characters on the vehicle denotes the unit that the vehicle is assigned to. Vehicles with an "A" are usually assigned to a town, "B" are rural cars, "C" are Traffic or Highway Patrol and much more likely to be running radar and give you a ticket than other codes, "D" are plainclothes units in unmarked cars, so you will rarely, if ever, see a D code on a vehicle. "E" cars are unmarked, and usually specialty vehicles such as the commanding officer of a province, "F" cars are specialty units such as FIS and PSD (Police Service Dog) and are mainly unmarked.

The first number denotes the detachment the vehicle is from (ie, all vehicles used by the Bible Hill Det would have the same number at the start.) The last number is simply a sequential number - RCMP vehicles at the East Prince Detachment all start with a 1. A typical marked general duty car would have a number on the side such as 1B7. None of the police vehicles in the same province will have the same "call sign" or identifying number.
 
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