Force, and Military are in a white background, with red and black text. Police Service plates have a designated format of X·LLNNN (X is the geographical abbreviation, N is a digit, and L is either a digit or a letter; "" means police and is coloured red, but the separator dot is no longer a circle, rather, a dash). These plates are issued to traffic police, some patrol vehicles, court, and procuratorate vehicles. The plates’ combination of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force ("") begins with the pinyin wujing abbreviation WJ. The 2012 series of CAPF vehicle registration plates is in the WJ P NNNNL pattern, where the stands for a Chinese character i.e. 京 for Beijing, serving as the provincial identifier, and the L denotes the first letter in pinyin of the branch of service. e.g. WJ = a vehicle for firefighting use in Shanghai The 2004 series use the format WJNN-NNNNN. The first two small letters behind the WJ are area prefixes: WJ01-NNNNN. = Headquarters WJ31-NNNNN. = Beijing WJ14-NNNNN. = Shandong WJ21-NNNNN. = Hainan The Alphabet Numeral behind the area prefix shows the section of the Armed police: WJ01-JNNNN. = Official Guards, Official and Diplomatic Escorts WJ01-BNNNN. = Border Police WJ01-XNNNN. = Firefighter (Fire Department) WJ01-1NNNN. = Headquarters Military vehicles previously had plates using a code of heavenly stems in red. After reorganization in 2004, again in 2013 military vehicles now use a more organized prefix. These licence plates use the format XL·NNNNN (X is a prefix, L is a letter). The People's Liberation Army vehicle prefixes 2013: Military vehicles can be identified by having a red letter from the alphabet *V V PLA Central Military Commission K PLA Air Force H PLA Navy B PLA Beijing Military VA PLA Central Military Commission VB PLA Political Works VC PLA Logistical Support VD PLA Equipment Development The People's Liberation Army vehicle prefixes 2004: "" (Jūn; "Military") Vehicles of the Central Military Commission Vehicles of the Headquarters of People's Liberation Army Vehicles of the PLA's units at Army-Grade or above. Deputy-Military-Region-Grade, Military-Region-Grade. The Ground Force of PLA vehicle of the various military regions have their own prefixes: "" (Beǐ) Vehicles of the Beijing Military Region of Ground Force) "" (Shěn); Vehicles of the Shenyang Military Region of Ground Force) "" (Lán); Vehicles of the Lanzhou Military Region of Ground Force) "" (Chéng); Vehicles of the Chengdu Military Region of Ground