Roof marking
The roof markings ( aerial markings ) of vehicles, especially those used by the fire brigade , the police , the rescue service and aid organizations , enable these vehicles to be addressed via radio from the air. Many cash-in- transit vehicles are also marked with aerial markings. In addition to alphanumeric identification, symbols are also used.
The roof marking often consists of the license plate . You can v. a. in the case of purely regional uses also consist of the (then usually clearly abbreviated) radio call name (sometimes also with the radio channel ), or an internal coding of the respective organization.
For emergency vehicles with changing radio call names (e.g. due to assignment to associations with their own radio call names, stationing at changing guards, or national use with different radio systems), only the license plate makes sense. However, this makes direct communication with the vehicle more difficult if the crew does not know the license plate number. This should therefore always be clearly legible on the dashboard of every vehicle.
Germany
fire Department
After very bad experiences with the forest fires in the 1970s with no or different markings, the roof markings for fire engines in Germany has been standardized in DIN 14035 "Roof markings for fire engines" since 1981 . There are also z. Some of the requirements from the responsible state ministries. According to the standard, the official license plate is only used as roof marking .
In the norm u. a. described that the writing should be at least 400 mm high and either in white letters on a red background or in black letters on a white or metallic background.
The general color description for fire service vehicles, DIN 14502-3 (fire service vehicles - Part 3: Color and special markings, last updated December 2015), describes the roof markings according to DIN 14035 for emergency vehicles.
police
In some countries, the police no longer have roof signs. Usually the paging name is used here. In Baden-Württemberg , the nickname is placed on the roof (minibuses) or on the hood (passenger cars). The password of the nickname is only shown with the first letter.
Patrol car of the Baden-Württemberg police with the nickname Peter 2/394
Roof marking 574 of a patrol car of the Schleswig-Holstein traffic police
United Kingdom
police
The roof mark of the police in the United Kingdom consists of a symbol for the type of vehicle, a code for the authority and an alphanumeric individual vehicle identifier. Usually the symbol and the authority code are shown in one line and the vehicle identification in the next line.
The symbol for the type of vehicle means:
- star
- Armed Response Vehicle (ARV, patrol car with armed police)
- circle
- Traffic / Incident Response Vehicle (IRV, traffic police / accident recording)
- triangle
- Dog Support Unit (DSU, service dog vehicles)
- square
- Public Order (riot police)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thermal roof markings for police vehicles ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
