About 15,000 Mustang SSP police-package cars were built from 1982 to 1993.
The Mustang SSP, or Special Service Package, was a law-enforcement version of the Fox-platform Mustang. Ford developed it after the California Highway Patrol sought a lighter, more capable pursuit car than the large sedans then common in police fleets. Production began in 1982 and ended in 1993, spanning the third-generation Mustang’s full service life.
Sources generally describe the total as nearly 15,000 rather than as a precisely audited production figure. The cars were purchased by more than 60 law-enforcement and government organizations for highway patrol, traffic enforcement, pursuit, drug-interdiction work, academy training, and other specialized duties. Some were even assigned to unusual missions, including support for the Lockheed U-2 program.
The figure is easy to underestimate because SSP cars were not sold as a regular high-volume consumer trim. It is also easy to overestimate by confusing the SSP total with broader Mustang production. The 15,000 figure refers specifically to police-package cars made across the 1982–1993 period.