4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 2004–09
NAMED MODELSpecial · PoliceMilitary · United NationsMilitary · PolandUnited Kingdom

PKW UNIFIL Zandarmeria Wojskowa Defender 110

Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Polish Military Police) Defender 110 soft top in United Nations white, used by the Polish military contingents (PKW) with UNIFIL in Lebanon and UNDOF on the Golan, photographed on a low-loader at a Polish port as both contingents' equipment came home in December 2009.

Sources & evidence
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand Rover (Defender 110 soft top)IN SERVICE2004–09OPERATED INPoland, Lebanon, SyriaPRODUCTIONunknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″

The record

Poland kept a battalion-sized contingent with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon from 1992 and a company with the UN Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights from 1974, and each had a Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Military Police) detachment for traffic control, escort and discipline duties. Their patrol vehicles were Defender 110s from the ZW's mid-2000s Land Rover purchases, repainted UN white with black UN lettering and keeping the Military Police's blue-and-red roof light bar with its ZW centre panel.

When Poland withdrew both contingents at the end of 2009 the vehicles were shipped back, and Wikimedia Commons' photograph of the returning equipment shows one such soft-top 110 chained to a trailer in a Polish port: white cab, white canvas over the rear body, UN on the doors, the light bar, spare wheel on the bonnet and white steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Defender 110 soft top)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERŻandarmeria Wojskowa (light bar, UN livery)
MANUFACTUREDZW Defender purchases; photographed December 2009
ENGINELand Rover Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel
PRODUCTION RUNunknown
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INPoland, Lebanon, Syria, United Nations
STATUShistoric
FITTINGSWhite canvas tilt, ZW blue/red light bar, bonnet spare, UN white livery
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Police, Military · United Nations, Military · Poland

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.

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Where it was

PL Poland2005–2015 · Żandarmeria WojskowaLB Lebanon2006–2009 · UNIFILSY Syria2006–2009 · UNDOF
  1. ServedUNIFIL, southern LebanonLebanon · 2006–200933.12, 35.13
  2. ServedUNDOF, Golan HeightsSyria · 2006–200933.24, 35.92
  3. EventContingent equipment returned through a Polish portPoland · 200953.43, 14.59

Sources

  1. 1Powrót sprzętu PKW UNIFIL i UNDOF (03) ↗Wikimedia Commons · accessed 2026-09-12SOURCE
  2. 2Polski Kontyngent Wojskowy w Libanie ↗Wikipedia (pl) · accessed 2026-09-12SOURCE
  3. 3https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powr%C3%B3t_sprz%C4%99tu_PKW_UNIFIL_i_UNDOF_(03).jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powr%C3%B3t_sprz%C4%99tu_PKW_UNIFIL_i_UNDOF_(03).jpg ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.032Z · status: researched