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By agreement between the various Commissioners, most police cars in Australia are predominantly white, Tasmania's are blue, with a blue and white Sillitoe Tartan checkered strip on the side. Some jurisdictions also have fluorescent orange stripes surrounding the tartan. Most general patrol cars are Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons. Prisoner transport vehicles are based on light commercial vehicles such as the Holden Rodeo, Holden Crewman or Mercedes Vito. Highway Patrol vehicles are higher performance sedans, often in colours other than white. Emergency lights on police vehicles are now generally blue and red; historically though, blue lights were used for police vehicles and red lights for fire engines and ambulances.
Police are now increasingly employing the use of a diverse range unmarked police cars. These vehicles include, besides the Commodore and the Falcon, the Chrysler 300C, Toyota Aurion, Toyota Corolla, Ford and Holden Ute, Holden Monaro, Ford Focus XR5, Subaru Impreza WRX, and the Volkswagen Golf. In rural areas, SUVs such as the Toyota Land Cruiser, Ford Territory, Nissan Patrol, and the Hummer H3 are used.
Most Australian police services have mounted police units which are prominently used for ceremonial purposes, although in states like New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria the mounted police also undertake operational policing duties on a daily basis.
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