Perplexing Callsign!

[auntys_eyes]

Whilst out and about today i saw a callsign on a WAPol car that has me quite perplexed. But first...

My understanding is that marked police vehicles with the callsign prefix of A* are normally District Traffic cars (eg AH*** would be a Midland District traffict car, AZ*** Mirrabooka etc). I also believe that a callsign suffix begining with 1 is normally for General Duties cars (eg 101, 102, 103 etc), and a suffix begining with 2 is normally for Traffic vehicles (eg 201, 202, 250-Major Crash etc).

Now here is the dilemma. Today i saw a Ford Falcon ute with a pod (Divvy Van) with the callsign of AH104.
a) This is a District Traffic prefix with a General Duties number.
b) I have never seen a van before, allocated as a traffic vehicle and would have thought that it is not that practical as a traffic vehicle.

So... Is Midland district using vans for traffic now (and surely there isn't 4 of them)?... and if so shouldn't it be AH204? OR... has someone stuffed up the callsign allocation and this should be HM104? OR... are traffic vehicles now using 1 in their callsign suffix? OR... Is this some bizarre new way of shuffling limited resources? OR... have WAPol just thrown all the cards up in the air with callsign allocations? OR...

[WPXZBP]

Possibly a district car that is used for general duties. I'm thinking not all AH (for example) callsigns are for traffic duties only.

[phreak]

reminds me of 'how much wood does a wood chucker chuck if a wood chucker could chuck wood?' or something like that lol

On topic tho, would be interesting to find out if there may be a departure from traditional call signs? Maybe the call sign intended was already allocated so they came up with a hybrid for this vehicle? out of curiosity, was it a newly registered vehicle?

[spartacus]

These may not be as rare as you think.
There have been reports of similar callsigns on this website.

Eg:
AV103
AP104
AL102

[CHEV4EVR]

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[auntys_eyes]

Thanks Chev