Each agency does this a little differently. As another answer indicated, larger departments have their own gas pumps in the motor pool. That was the way my former agency handled it. There was an “out of town” car used for trips. It had a corporate gas card in a sleeve taped to the windshield visor.
The smaller city (about 60,000 people, at the time) I grew up in handled it a bit differently. Separate from the police department, there was a city corporation yard where public works vehicles were parked and serviced. The corporation yard had its own gas pump. The police department had a part-time employee (a high school kid—the job was much sought after) who would ferry cars from the PD to the corporation yard each day, wash and fuel them, then return them to the police department. The cars seldom needed to be fueled more than once every 24 hours, but if that happened, the cops all had keys to the corporation yard gate and the gas pump.
In even smaller communities, each car or each officer has a city credit card for gas. Officers fuel the cars as needed, often patronizing a single station that has a contract with the city, or possibly just going wherever the gas is cheapest.
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