A Bulgarian Border Police Defender 110 station wagon in grey-green with ГРАНИЧНА ПОЛИЦИЯ identification panels on the doors, a blue roof lightbar and the European Union emblem on the rear quarter — the mark of the EU-funded equipment that followed Bulgaria's 2007 accession — photographed on 14 October 2011.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand RoverIN SERVICE2007–11OPERATED INBulgariaPRODUCTIONUnknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″
The record
When Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 its eastern and southern land borders became the Union's external frontier, and the Border Police — Гранична полиция, a directorate of the Interior Ministry — was re-equipped for the job with EU support. The Defender 110 station wagon was among the vehicles chosen: a nine-seat four-wheel-drive for patrolling the mountain and forest sections of the Turkish, Greek, Serbian and North Macedonian borders where the roads run out.
The vehicle in this record wears the service's flat grey-green with white ГРАНИЧНА ПОЛИЦИЯ panels on the front doors, a blue lightbar across the roof and a small EU flag on the rear quarter, the funding acknowledgement carried by equipment bought under Union programmes. Its flat bonnet places it before the Puma cars of 2007, so it is a Td5- or Tdi-era Defender. It was photographed by the Commons contributor Bin im Garten on 14 October 2011.
No procurement record for the fleet — quantities, dates or the units that ran them — was found in the sources consulted, and none is asserted here. What the record documents is one photographed vehicle.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover
MANUFACTUREDPre-2007 flat-bonnet Defender 110; photographed in service October 2011
ENGINE2.5 L turbodiesel — Td5 five-cylinder or Tdi four; the flat bonnet rules out the post-2007 Puma, and the source does not state which
PRODUCTION RUNUnknown — one vehicle documented
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INBulgaria
STATUSunknown
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Police
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
