Rijkspolitie Porsche 911 SC heads to auction after a $252,000 record
Dutch motorway police ran 507 Porsches, and another one is now for sale
A 1980 Porsche 911 SC that once patrolled Dutch motorways for the Rijkspolitie is heading to an online sale on Collecting Cars, offered from Borne in Overijssel. It comes with its roof-mounted light bar, Bosch horns, rear STOP sign and two Rijkspolitie uniforms. Bidding dates and an estimate have not been announced, but the price it has to live up to is already known.
The 1980 Porsche 911 SC has covered 150,097 km since its police service
The car on offer is a 1980 911 SC in Grand Prix White under the Rijkspolitie's familiar decals, and it has covered 150,097 km. After leaving the force it passed through one private and two company owners, and it is already registered on Dutch plates, so a buyer in the Netherlands can drive it straight home. Its equipment is what makes it collectable: the blue light on the roof bar, the twin Bosch horns on the front bumper and the illuminated STOP sign at the back are all still fitted.
A 1989 Rijkspolitie 911 Carrera Targa sold for $252,000 in August
The benchmark was set in California in August, when a 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera Targa in Rijkspolitie livery sold for $252,000, about €216,000, at Broad Arrow's Quail Auction. It went into the books as a record for a G-body 911 police car, at a sale where a 1988 959 Komfort made $2,865,000. The record car was a Carrera 3.2 from the last years of the G-body, while the car now for sale is the older 3.0-litre SC that the Carrera replaced in 1984.
Why the Rijkspolitie chose the Porsche 356 in 1962
The Rijkspolitie bought its first Porsches in 1962, when Dutch motorways had no speed limit and serious crashes were rising. The brief asked for a car that was reliable, handled well and stopped hard, and it had to have an open top so officers could stand up in it to direct traffic. The 356 Cabriolet ticked every box and served from 1962 to 1966 in orange and white, with a single blue light on the windscreen pillar.
507 Porsches made the Rijkspolitie the largest police Porsche fleet in history
The 911 joined once Porsche launched the Targa in 1967, and it stayed in Dutch service until 1996. By then 507 Porsches had worn the livery, including the 914, 924 and 964, the largest historic police Porsche fleet in the world. They belonged to the Algemene Verkeersdienst, the national traffic division run from Driebergen, which handled accidents, roadside checks and first aid on the motorways. The Rijkspolitie itself was folded into a new national structure under the Police Act of 1993.
Dubai and Italy run police supercars as specialists, the Dutch 911s were everyday tools
Police forces still put fast cars in uniform, though today usually as specialists or ambassadors. Dubai Police has just added a Mansory Ferrari 812 Superfast as its fifth tuner car, and the Italian Polizia uses a Lamborghini Temerario to rush donor organs between hospitals. The Rijkspolitie 911s were bought as everyday motorway equipment, chosen against a written brief, and that working history is exactly what collectors now pay a premium for.
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A police Porsche earns its value from a working life rather than from rarity alone, and this SC still carries the evidence. Light bar, horns, STOP sign and uniforms are the parts that disappear first from retired patrol cars, and Dutch registration makes it usable on day one. For a Benelux enthusiast it is the more attainable route into Porsche's best-documented fleet: an earlier, simpler 911 with the same story painted on its doors.
The SC should finish below the Quail car's $252,000, because that record belonged to a late Carrera Targa sold in front of Monterey's deepest-pocketed bidders. A result above €100,000 when bidding closes would still prove the point that matters: collectors are paying for the Rijkspolitie name, not for the Carrera badge.
