You’re speeding down a South Carolina highway and soon you see a car behind you with blue lights flashing inside but no law enforcement markings.

Is this a real highway patrol car? And can the officer pull you over?

Yes and yes.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety has been using unmarked vehicles for almost four years. And they might not be the gray color normally associated with The Highway Patrol. They could be white, black or blue and have racing stripes down the hood.

“They are used statewide, and the troopers driving unmarked vehicles do the same job duties as troopers who drive fully marked vehicles,” said Captain Sonny Collins, spokesman for the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Known as Area Coordinated Enforcement (ACE) teams when they were set up in July 2021, the

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