Introduced for the 2001 model year, this police-duty Dyna variant adapted the Super Glide-based Dyna platform for law-enforcement service. It occupied a middle ground in Harley-Davidson’s police lineup: lighter and more compact than the full-dress touring police bikes, but still built around the modern rubber-mounted Dyna chassis that helped define the company’s big-twin lineup in the 1990s and 2000s. Harley-Davidson’s own service literature and police-model manuals show it in the catalog from 2001 onward, with dedicated police parts and service documentation continuing through the 2007 model year. By 2002, Harley-Davidson was already describing accessories specifically for 2002-and-later FXDP police motorcycles, which confirms the nameplate’s continued use beyond its debut year.
Historically, this model belongs to the Dyna family that began with the 1991 FXDB Dyna Glide Sturgis and later expanded into several Super Glide, Low Rider, Wide Glide and police-oriented derivatives. In the police range, it sat alongside Harley-Davidson’s larger FL-based patrol motorcycles and served agencies that wanted a more maneuverable V-twin patrol bike without moving to the full touring chassis. The Dyna family itself was retired in 2017, but this police nameplate had already concluded its run years earlier. Enthusiast interest in the model remains tied to its place in that transitional era: a purpose-built police motorcycle from the period when the Dyna platform was Harley-Davidson’s main midsize big-twin architecture.