Policía Militar Aníbal

History

Santana Motor of Linares built Land Rovers under licence from 1958 and continued with its own derivatives after Land Rover withdrew in the mid-1980s. The Aníbal, sold abroad as the PS-10, was the company's last original design: begun in 1997 under factory director José Antonio Navarro Yagüe, shown at the Madrid motor show on 23 May 2002 and produced until Santana was wound up in February 2011. It used the Iveco 8140.43P — a 2,798 cc turbocharged common-rail four of 92 kW (125 CV) and 275 Nm — with a five-speed gearbox and dual-ratio transfer case, parabolic leaf springs, a 3,050 kg gross weight, a tonne of payload and a 100-litre tank. Around 1,700 went to the Spanish Army, with further sales to France and the Czech Republic.

Military police work is one of the roles the army fleet covers. Policía Militar units handle route control and convoy escort, traffic regulation on military movements, security at installations and general discipline duties, and their vehicles are marked to be recognisable to civilians as well as soldiers: army green with white 'PM' lettering on the body sides, a blue light bar over the cab, and Ejército de Tierra ET-series plates. The Aníbal suited the work because it was already the fleet's standard liaison vehicle, and both body styles appear — the soft top with its canvas tilt over the rear body, and the five-door station wagon.

The Unidad Militar de Emergencias, the joint military emergency unit created in 2005, took 225 Aníbals of its own and runs military police vehicles among them. These wear a more conspicuous scheme suited to working alongside civil emergency services on public roads: army green with 'POLICIA MILITAR' in yellow along the bonnet and body sides, a yellow-and-black chequered flash along the waist, a blue light bar and the UME's roof rack and spare wheel. The example photographed here carries the shield of BIEM I. As across the rest of the fleet, these vehicles are now being replaced — the UME began buying 292 Volkswagen Amaroks from 2016, and the army's Aníbals are giving way to the VMTT programme's Iturri Landtrek and Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Santana Motor S.A., Linares (Jaén), Spain

Manufactured

shown 2002; built 2004-2011

Modifier / coachbuilder

Spanish military police fit — blue light bar, PM markings

Engine type

Iveco 8140.43P 2,798 cc turbocharged intercooled common-rail diesel inline-four, 92 kW (125 CV), 275 Nm

Production run

~1,700 Aníbals delivered to the Spanish Army (225 to the UME); military police vehicles a small proportion

Country of origin

Spain

Status

still in service but being withdrawn; replaced by Volkswagen Amarok in the UME and by VMTT vehicles in the army

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Santana

Wheels

4

Base catalogue fields are exported from the Difflocked game. In-game physics values are arcade tuning, not certified historical measurements, and are deliberately not shown as specifications here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• Santana Aníbal ↗ — Wikipedia (Spanish) (accessed 2026-09-10)
• Vehículo ligero Aníbal (official specification) ↗ — Ejército de Tierra, Ministerio de Defensa (Spain) (accessed 2026-09-10)
• Unidad Militar de Emergencias (vehicle inventory, including the military police Aníbal) ↗ — Wikipedia (Spanish) (accessed 2026-09-10)
• File:Aníbal policía militar Ejército español.jpg ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-10)
• File:Aníbal PM.JPG ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-10)

Catalogue references

• https://c8.alamy.com/comp/3BDMYK9/mlaga-spain-april-17-2025-anibal-santana-of-the-military-police-car-based-on-a-land-rover-with-an-iveco-engine-28-diesel-125-hp-3BDMYK9.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/3BDMYK9/mlaga-spain-april-17-2025-anibal-santana-of-the-military-police-car-based-on-a-land-rover-with-an-iveco-engine-28-diesel-125-hp-3BDMYK9.jpg ↗