This police-spec touring motorcycle first appeared for the 1996 model year as the fuel-injected version of the long-running Harley-Davidson police Road King family. It was part of the company’s factory-built law-enforcement lineup, sharing the basic Road King touring chassis and police-oriented equipment with the carbureted police model, but adding electronic fuel injection and related hardware. The designation was used through the 1990s and early 2000s on U.S. police motorcycles intended for patrol duty, traffic enforcement, and other public-safety roles.
By the mid-2000s, the model had become familiar in police fleets for its combination of touring-bike comfort, traditional styling, hard saddlebags, and factory-installed provisions for lights, sirens, and other duty gear. Harley-Davidson service literature for 2006 still identifies this fuel-injected police Road King variant by this nameplate, while 2007 police-model documentation shows the police Road King as FLHP instead, indicating the earlier designation ended after the 2006 model year. The nameplate did not continue as a separate revived series after that change.
Enthusiasts remember it as one of the classic factory police Harley touring bikes from the Evolution-to-Twin Cam transition era, bridging the older police FLH tradition with modern fuel injection and touring refinement.