Department of Motor Vehicles

The Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is an agency of the United States government that administers vehicle registration and licenses.

Day 5
During Day 5, CTU was following a blue van driven by terrorists Polakov and Komar. Curtis Manning gave CTU the license plate and analyst Edgar Stiles verified it against the DMV database. It resulted that the plates belonged to another vehicle, which meant that the van was probably stolen.