You’ll notice that we kept the two forward slanting stripes behind “police” but made the front stripe thinner than the one that follows it. It was important to us to maintain Hawthorne’s identity from the previous era so we tried to build forward slanting grey lines and the blue hues. We sought out a graphics designer and brought a new car over to his shop to begin working on a new design. He tasked the traffic bureau commander with looking into a new design with little direction other than he wanted something updated, forward, and unique to accompany the new Ford’s. Port was looking for a change when the fleet was changing from Chevys to the Ford Crown Victoria.

We liked and enjoyed our 1990s era design, but in 2003, Chief S. The standard across California at the time was a colorful and prominent “police” on the side of the car in a raised font. In the early 2000s, more agencies were moving beyond the standard city seal and beginning to use more and more color in their designs.

Photo police car