Oncoming police car Emoji

Travel

A front-facing police cruiser featuring a flashing light bar on its roof. The vehicle is designed to look like it is driving directly toward the viewer, typically depicted in a blue and white or black and white color scheme.

Usage Context

Used to signal law enforcement presence, emergencies, or an urgent warning to others. It is frequently sent as a shorthand for 'the police are coming,' or when alerting friends to watch out for patrol cars while driving. It is often paired with the 🚨 light or the 👮 police officer emoji to reinforce the message.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon was integrated to help mobile users communicate emergency situations quickly. Its design mimics the standardized graphics used in early Japanese mobile messaging apps to help users navigate urban environments and public safety alerts.

Details

Glyph

🚔

Unicode

U+1F694

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f694:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE94;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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