In the US, police cars tend to be blue and white or black and white, and police stations rarely have a uniform color. But in Chile, the “Carabineros” (the police) drive green and white cars and are housed in green and white police stations.
One time, Asher took in his white toy police car with red and blue lights for Show and Tell. The kids at his school – Mackay in Renaca, Chile – asked him what it was because they had never seen a police car that wasn’t green and white!
The other interesting thing is that they drive around with their lights on ALL THE TIME! If they want to pull you over, they turn on their siren or step in front of your moving vehicle, point to you, and wave you over, as Ben found out the hard way. We were pulled over for not driving with our lights on in the middle of the day on the freeway!