Unless it’s an important person’s funeral or military, there generally aren’t police escorts. More often than not there will just be signs on their front or back window stating Funeral Procession (the funeral home hands the signs out to any family who is driving their own vehicle along with the hearse to the cemetery) as well as the vehicles having their headlights on.

Not true. When I used to do delivery, I came across a lot of funeral processions. There was always multiple police escorts. Having signs and your headlights on doesn't help when you go through a red light. The cross traffic will not see this. That's the main reason for the police escort. They block the cross traffic at the stop lights so the procession can proceed safely.

I WORK at a funeral home. Maybe it’s different where you live however across Canada, we do not have police escorts unless it is an important person’s death or military.