Met Police Marine Policing Unit Defender
The Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit's Defender 110 station wagon BX61 EFC: an unmarked silver 2011 Puma-era Defender with a Warn winch in the front bumper and a single blue beacon on the roof, used on the Thames for launching and recovering the unit's boats and for foreshore recovery work.
History
The Marine Policing Unit is the Metropolitan Police Service's river force, based at Wapping and responsible for the tidal Thames through London. Alongside its launches and rigid inflatables it runs a small number of four-wheel-drive vehicles for slipway work, towing boat trailers, foreshore searches and recovering craft and equipment from the river's edge, where a winch and low-range gearing matter more than a marked livery. BX61 EFC is a Defender 110 station wagon of the 2.2-litre Puma era, registered in late 2011, in plain silver with a Warn winch and fairlead set into the black front bumper and a single magnetic-style blue beacon on the roof; it was photographed unmarked on the street for UK Emergency Vehicles' police Land Rover gallery, with only a POLICE sign in the windscreen to identify it. How many such vehicles the unit operated is not stated in the source.
The registry's model is the Defender 110 station wagon in silver with the winch, beacon, bonnet bulge, lettering and plates from that photograph; it is listed under both the police and marine categories as the queue asked.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover
- Manufactured
- 61-plate (September 2011 to February 2012) Defender 110
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Metropolitan Police Service fleet workshops (winch and beacon fit)
- Engine type
- Ford/Land Rover 2.2 L Puma turbo-diesel (Defender of the period; not stated in the source)
- Production run
- Unknown — a small fleet of winch-equipped 4x4s within the Marine Policing Unit
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 110″
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.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- UK Emergency Vehicles — police Land Rover Defender search (Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit Defender 110 BX61 EFC) ↗ — ukemergency.co.uk (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/?s=Land+Rover+Defender+police https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/?s=Land+Rover+Defender+police ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T09:11:11.413Z · status: researched