Plumbing vans resembling police cars freaking out Aucklanders

A tradie van has been raising eyebrows in Auckland because it looks a lot like a police vehicle.

The local plumbing company, Polite Plumbers have designed their cars to look exactly like cop cars.

While police vans have yellow and blue checks on the side, the plumbing vans have yellow checks, and little blue people on toilets.

It's a subtle difference, and it's left Aucklanders shaking in their boots.

"We get a lot of laughs, a lot of chuckles, a lot of finger-pointing," Polite Plumbers owner Steve Terblanch told The Project.

"Kids love it, they point at the little men on the toilets pooping".

"I guess if people are on the wrong side of the law you'd feel like people are ticking you, but if you've got nothing to worry about you should be fine," he said.

"We're all about cheeky, our vans are cheeky, the back of our shirts are cheeky, we're just a cheeky bunch."

Police got back to The Project, and according to them there was no bad blood.

"This is the first we've heard of this company and while it seems a bit cheeky, it's important to flush away the notion they are in any way associated with Police," NZ Police told The Project in a statement.