A Broward Cop Car Somehow Ended Up in England

Picture this: you're cruising through the English countryside — soaking in the sheep, quaint cottages, and rolling green hills — when you suddenly spot a Broward County cop car.

For most Broward folks, it's the kind of thing you'd blame on jetlag, or perhaps that extra gummy you took before the flight across the pond.

But for Rodney Price, it was very real.

Earlier this month, while sightseeing through the United Kingdom, Price posted a photo on the social media app Threads showing what appears to be a black-and-green Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) cruiser parked in a lot somewhere in England. The selfie shows Price rocking silver aviators and smizing in front of the car, which appears to bear a "Pompano Beach" tag and the agency's former motto, "Pride in Service with Integrity," in cursive lettering. In a comment on the post, Price explains that he took the photo in Stevenage, a town about 30 miles north of London.

"I'm not sure what it's [doing] here," Price's post reads, "but a Broward County, Florida Sheriff car is something probably not seen physically in England very much."

Price's photo, sandwiched between images of his other UK adventures, including stops at Warwick Castle and Wales, has received more than 3,000 likes.

"Somebody took the wrong exit off the Sawgrass!" one person commented.

"✨You can leave south Florida but South Florida will never leave you 🎀" another wrote.

"Someone is going to jail for beans and toast," a third joked.

So, how the bloody hell did a BSO car end up in England? Did someone buy it at an auction and ship it across the Atlantic? Is it some sort of replica?

While BSO spokesperson Veda Coleman-Wright tells New Times the agency can't say for sure if Price's photo is of an actual BSO vehicle, if it is legit, all the police equipment seen on the vehicle would have had to have been installed after it was sold via auction.

"We don't know if that photo is of a BSO vehicle or not. Any vehicle that BSO auctions off has all the police equipment, markings, and decals removed prior to sale in accordance with Florida Law," she says. "If the vehicle in the photo was a BSO vehicle, all the police equipment seen on the vehicle would have had to have been installed after it was sold."

She cites a Florida law that states: "A person may not knowingly sell, exchange, or transfer a police vehicle without, before consummating the sale, exchange, or transfer, removing any police markings from the vehicle."

While it's uncertain if this is the first sighting of a BSO vehicle abroad, American police cars have previously been spotted on European streets.

Last year, after a video of a Sacramento County Sheriff's Office patrol car cruising through a small city in Poland went viral online, a spokesperson for the California sheriff's office explained to the local CBS News station that some hobbyists in Europe enjoy collecting American cars and outfitting them with police-style finishes — and that people have witnessed Sacramento County Sheriff's in Poland, England, Iceland, and Germany, likely owing to private owners buying stickers or decals that match the department's logo.

CBS News reported that it found a website that connects hobbyists with vehicles and decals, including sticker packs for the Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago police departments.

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