It was probably on its way to the state auction by looking at the writing on the window.

Whoops: Violation of 625 ILCS 5/3-413 (a)
NO FRONT PLATE
Consider this a stern warning Trooper. Also, don't forget your silly hat, because only you can prevent forest fires.

I'm not sure if this particular car is still in service. But, ISP district 15 still uses a few. They are mostly used as spare cars as most of them are not outfitted with in-car cameras.

But these were damn nice cars. It's a real shame Chevy stopped the production of the best police car ever.

There are a handful of these still in service at 11 years old and well in excess of 200,000k on the odometer.

Cool picture, alot of the older caprices are still in service in the Phoenix area along with the newer cars.

You can answer your own question about when the photo was taken by clicking on the EXIF details to the right of the photo:

Captured with: Canon EOS 30D
Exif Image Details

It could be....our state police fleet is in terrible shape!

When was this picture taken? Is this vehicle still on service?