first, i have no knowledge/understanding of THIS specific car. Looks great, buyer and seller happy with deal, cool. Nice car. good home it seems.
My personal experience is what people consider "police cars" to be defined as sometimes varies.
My understanding (please, nobody jump on me ... just sharing experience and NOT representing this as "gospel"
) is ANY OEM car could be a "police car".
This is even before and since OEM's decided to build/option such cars SPECIFICALLY for "fleet" (taxi, military, police, fire department, etc.) customers' duty requirements (chasing, take a curb at 35 mph and keep going, hard braking .. whatever ... in the case of police)
Take two hypothetical examples.
Purpose-designed and factory built cars had/still have identifiers -- VIN letters/numbers, option codes, heavy duty duty spec'd parts, high-performance of the vehicle as a result, factory-build/body-in-white instructions, etc, -- that indicated there was something "different" about such cars.
Other cars, i'll just call them "civilian" cars of the same model/nameplate, available to ANY buyer, and NOT designed to a "fleet spec", ALSO could be bought by a "fleet' buyer for whatever purpose they wanted them for.
Either of these cars could, for this example, IMHO, be called "police cars" if that was a "police" department. Car could have chased other cars, or did parking meter violations. Some cars were likely "police-equipped" for high-speed pursuits, vs. the meter maid's car that was not as capable of such duty.
Extend the logic .. if one is interested in this distinction, "police-equipped" cars are "self-declaring", from their VIN's, options, broadcasts, etc. BUT may never had done a minute in police servce.
Likewise, a pure "civilian" car, bought by a police department, could have been on police patrols, officer duty calls, etc, with a police department and NOT have a single, "police-equipped" factory identifier.
TO ME, both of these hypothetical cars are "police" cars.
One type, I gravitate toward. I like them to be "police-equipped" from the factory, AND I like a "paper trail" (original owner title, officer duty ogs, department maintenance records, auction paperwork, etc.,) that proves a police department bought/used it in "police-service".
My next preference is the "self-declaring", police-spec features of the car as built at OEM factory. Sometimes, I may NOT know what department used it as that paper trial is lost on the sands of time. But the car, "is what it is (or was, when built)" just as it sits.
my $0.02
