Police van
Type of police vehicle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Patty Wagon" redirects here. For the fictional vehicle, see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
Not to be confused with SWAT vehicle.
A police van (also known as a paddy wagon, meat wagon, divisional van, patrol van, patrol wagon, police wagon, Black Mariah/Maria, police carrier, or in old-fashioned usage, pie wagon) is a type of vehicle operated by police forces. Police vans are usually employed for the transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell in the vehicle, or for the rapid transport of a number of officers to an incident.