the best use of a police siren in a song, What is

One of Mannie Fresh's all-time greatest moments. That song is so layered and his placement of the little siren drops or whatever fits in there so prefect. Mannie Fresh's best beats always seem like rollercoasters to me the way they are just so energetic and up-and-down all the time.

Yeah, this happened to me once too, but I can't think of what it was just now.

Also: They're Coming To Take Me Away / Napoleon XIV

The Soulwax Shibuya mix of LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"

(highway sixty-one .... crazy!!! -- siren done with a ring whistle from a crackerjack box i think!!!)
-- bflaska (bflask...), April 10th, 2005.

Yep, but the LP cover indeed (absurdly) says "Police Car"!
Anyways, seconded.

Did "Leader Of The Pack" have sirens, or just motorcycle and crash sounds?

I'll go with D.I.

Thirded

similarly, the yardbirds, "happenings ten years time ago"

just him whooping. and that my friend is the best use of a siren in a song.

Autonomy?

yes. clearly the winner.

Brits all, it's worth noting. Harder for a guitarist to simulate an American siren (steady rise-and-fall) than the English variety(alternating high and low tones.)

Over 'ere!

Anyway, though, the Inspector Gadget theme song also deserves honorable mention. If nothing else, the accompanying video features one of the most well-animated police sirens you'll ever see.

So ages ago I noticed that Roy Wood's "Goin' Down the Road (A Scottish Reggae Song)" and Thunderthighs' "Central Park Arrest", which both have police sirens, both peaked in the UK charts at the same time in early July 1974*, and the latter song was written by Lynsey de Paul, who was Roy Wood's girlfriend at the time. And Roy appeared on Lynsey's "Ooh I Do", released a few weeks before those singles! Did they conspire to get two police sirens into the charts at once?

*back to back weeks, albeit with CPA's #30 peak continuing for a second week while GDTR peaked.

If I'm the only person who is interested in any of this it still won't stop me from telling people.

the rev. toad-eater, "alden street"

"Nathan La Franeer" by Joni Mitchell, but it's far from the best!

"Riot in Cell Block #9" by The Robins (Coasters)

...and the rewrite "Student Demonstration Time" by the Beach Boys.

George Harrison - Dream Scene

“- definitely masturbating -“

Body Count's in the House

"Motherfucker!"

I’ve always been partial to the menacingly slow-moving siren that comes in at the :30 mark in the intro to War Pigs. Granted, it’s more of an ambulance than a police siren, and a European-sounding one at that, but it is very effectively creepy.

Hard House Banton - Sirens

No I am the Walrus?

https://www.tiktok.com/@_pitafajita_/video/7116540833607748910?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7116540833607748910

The 1988 version of Morgan Pask's Overkill, better known to Brits as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyIHZqG0PE

(This is a soundalike but that's because the 88 version has never had an official release if I'm not mistaken)

Ween "Isreal"

Anyway, though, the Inspector Gadget theme song also deserves honorable mention. If nothing else, the accompanying video features one of the most well-animated police sirens you'll ever see.

Underrated post.

And recently Drake's "Sticky" has one right after "If it's an escort / it's a police one."