🚔

Oncoming Police Car Emoji 🚔

Flip 🚓 Police Car around and this is what shows up: the same cruiser facing the viewer instead of sitting in profile, lights still on the roof either way. It's used the same way as its sideways twin, for actual police activity or, far more often, as a joke about someone getting caught red-handed.

What 🚔 means

A forward-facing police car with a wide, rectangular windscreen, a pair of headlights, a siren board on the roof with red and blue lights with an installed siren sound too.

The 🚔 Oncoming Police Car emoji signifies an arriving police car, either to investigate a case or to give you a speeding ticket. This emoji suggests a sense of fear and panic if you're the one the police is after, but safety and reassurance if it's someone else.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a picture/video from your camera roll, a repost, or a meme about a cop following someone (or you), use 🚔 in the caption.
If you just got followed by a cop who gave you a ticket or misbehaved because you are colored, you can use 🚔 while putting up this incident on social media or even while texting a friend about it. Let's just say, you lived to tell the story. (Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and hundreds of others, we say your name #blm).
You could also use 🚔 while reposting news content that involves the police - it can be an outrageous news post or an appreciative one.
If you're texting someone about the routine cop patrolling scene in your area or some heavy patrolling post an incident, use 🚔. For instance, "Dude. It's just the usual routine, man. Twice a day 🚔".
If you're a patrol cop, who's taking out his/her car to run some personal errands, you can use 🚔 while sharing a social media story of the same.

Other Names

🚔 Arriving Police Vehicle
🚔 Followed by a Cop Car
🚔 Patrol Car
🚔 Cop Car
🚔 Front of Police Car
🚔 Patrolling Cop
🚔 Cop On Duty
🚔 Moving Police Car
🚔 Police Car Chasing an Offender

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F694
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :oncoming_police_car:
Keywords: car, oncoming, police

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.