Imagine how much more interesting it would be if the roads were patrolled by Porsche 911s or Audi R8s or Teslas?

Well, believe it or not, the police in one part of the world or other have used all these cars, and a whole lot of other notable machines, so cop a load of these. We’ve ranked them in order, working up to the police car we think is the world’s most interesting police car ever used.

For this 2019 version of Autocar’s visit to the subject, we’ve dropped all the cars that were only ever used for promotional purposes and stuck to vehicles that we’re reasonably certain saw active service: