Q&A for How to Get Cop Cars in Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012

You can crash and change the car you're driving while in a race.

Because unlike Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Need for Speed: Rivals, this is not an available function.

No, it is not possible to do on the PS3, at least the version showed here. You may be able to find it somewhere else.

Yes, the only thing changed by this mod is the skin of the vehicle. The functionality of the player will still stay the same, meaning that you can also get chased by the cops.

You cannot unlock it in vanilla Need for Speed. However, there are mods that you can get, but they are very hard to find. These city vehicles or other vehicle mods can only be used on PS4, Xbox One, or PC.

Crash hard enough that your car must reset. This means that their will be a brief moment where the screen will black out and reload your car in a new position. (Go into a lake or off a cliff, jump off a ramp but roll over.)

There should be a place where you can select the type of game you want. Move the nunchuck left or right until you find it.

It depends on what cars you already have obtained. The only cop cars in the game are the Ford Crown Victoria, Dodge Charger, Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Corvette, and the SWAT unit. If there are more police units in your case, then try searching for more options.