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

PKW UNIFIL Zandarmeria Wojskowa Defender 110 Station Wagon.

Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Polish Military Police) Defender 110 station wagon in United Nations white, the hard-bodied sister of the soft-top patrol vehicles the Polish contingents (PKW) ran with UNIFIL in Lebanon and UNDOF on the Golan until their withdrawal in December 2009.

Sources & evidence
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand Rover (Defender 110 station wagon)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 — soft tops and station wagons — 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 a soft-top 110 chained to a trailer in a Polish port; this registry entry is the 110 station wagon in the same UN white with UN on the doors, the ZW light bar, spare wheel on the bonnet and white steel wheels, built as the enclosed sister of that vehicle.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Defender 110 station wagon)
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
FITTINGSStation wagon body, 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, Golan Heights
  1. ServedUNIFIL, southern LebanonLebanon · 2006–200933.12, 35.13
  2. ServedUNDOF, Golan HeightsSyria · 2006–200933.24, 35.92

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