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Dutch police inn 911
Did you know that our Dutch police used to run 911-s for the highway patrol team ? Not anymore unfortunately (well ....)
I came across a guy on the Dutch Porsche Forum who restored an ex-police 911 to its original specs. He has special allowance from the ministery of transportation to drive this obvious (ex) police car. High way patrol 911-s were always Targa's, the argument was that it allowed the police guy to stand up straight and manage traffic :-) It actually started with 356-s in the 1960-s. Before 911-s were replaced by Mercs & Volvos, they also ran a couple of 964 convertibles. Don't mind the language, just have a look at the pics here. It was the dream of many boys to join the police for this ... www.rijkspolitie911.nl - Home
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356's were also used back in the day as special police cars
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This brings back good memories. My family and I lived in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, for 2 years starting in 1985. Your post inspired my to look through some of my pictures from that time. We would see 911 police cars once in a while and I knew that I had taken a photo. I found it and here it is.
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I was in Scheveningen in 1986 for the Beach Race and remember seeing them on the road. Mostly they were on the highways around Amsterdam from what I remember.
I think I remember some 944's also. Somebody hit us in our car and I remember the police came in a Mercedes and he also had a broom in his trunk to clean up the accident mess. Never had seen that before.
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These were on their way to the The Netherlands in '89.
   
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