323 Police
 

The only Mazda 323 police car in the world! (that I know of) :)

http://www.info.gov.hk/police/offbea...photo/012e.jpg

I recently did searching for a 323 Police Car....... I could only find one in the world, but no picture, was just a text article. Small island off of Hong Kong where vehilces are banned. VERY cool I thought. So I contacted the Hong Kong Police Department last week and asked them to provide me with a picture. Believe it or not they responded today.

Here is a brief story I put together from several articles.....

Cheung Chau introduces their first police vehicle.

Cheung Chau, a 2.4-square-kilometre outlying island situated to the southwest of Hong Kong Island, is a city dwellers's paradise: there are no skyscrapers, no vehicles and none of the disturbance of modern city life. However, in the fourth lunar month each year, this quiet island is transformed into a hive of activity when the fascinating Bun Festival, Cheung Chau's main claim to fame, takes place.

Police can now respond more quickly on Cheung Chau thanks to a compact new patrol car being tested on the island where general vehicles are barred.

Islands District Councillors and Rural Area Committee members, along with scores of Cheung Chau folk, flocked to the ferry pier on October 26th 2000 to welcome the island's first police car, a small 1.3-litre Mazda 323 Saloon, as it was unloaded from a barge. It features highly visible blue, red and white livery, with flashing lights and a siren like a regular patrol vehicle.

Not all residences on the island are accessible by car and the use of it will be restricted to safe roads and lanes. However, where part of the journey is by car, response times will be reduced. Cheung Chau Divisional Commander Feline Li Wai-lin said the vehicle's introduction heralded a new era in police work for the Division.

First Hong Kong, then the world!!!!!!! :evilgrin:

Gotta get one of those light on top of the car for my Protege.....
might be something cool for a new rice wave:D

Bad idea, we already get busted for impersonating a police officer with blue headlights……

Rice boys are rich and can pay their tickets..........:cool: :cool: :cool:

Pretty cool, even cooler that they responded to your email request. Maybe they hardly have any crime over there, so your email was something for them to do. LOL :D

The coolest police car ive seen is a Porsche 911. ;)

Check out this thread I just posted today Paolo:

http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/sho...&threadid=4686

Thanks mnkyboy :) I figured it was a 50/50 shot.

Don't know if you guys are interested, or if it's even worth mentioning, but I have a few other pictures of Mazda Police Cars if you want to see them......

- Etude
- RX-7
- 626

it would be funny just to see everyone kinda slow down when passing me on the highway:cool:

Heres a site of Police cars from around the world for those of you that get off on this kind of stuff... heehee just kidding...

:wackit:

http://policecars.tripod.com/welcome.htm

Re: 323 Police
 

Dood thats some phat ass shit....

;)

1.3L....?
 

only 1.3L? whoa?!?! guess it doesn't have to be too fast to catch people on foot, huh. sweet stuff though!

Hey anyone notice that it has 99-2000 headlights but has a 2001+bumper? I guess our 2001 bumpers might be a rip off of what looks like the 99-00 j spec bumpers?

Yep 2 cops told us our blue windshield washer lights were impersonating police so now we are going to put them on a switch ;)

Here's another 3rd gen Protege police car.

Linked

I saw it in Jerusalem. Protege's (called the 323 Lantis over there) are really popular (1st, 2nd, and 3rd gens).

The police there also use Corollas and sometimes European cars (Seat, etc).