Norfolk Police Santana PS-10
Norfolk Constabulary's Santana PS-10: a white Spanish-built 110-inch station wagon, AO52 UXW, wearing only a blue POLICE band with chequer blocks on the front doors, POLICE on the bonnet and the force crest — no blue lights, no light bar — with a black bumper and A-bar up front.
Factory colours
- White
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
History
Santana Motor of Linares had built Land Rovers under licence since 1961, and when the licence ended it kept the layout and developed its own vehicle from it. The PS-10 — sold at home as the Aníbal — was shown in 2002 and reached the market in the years that followed: a Series-derived leaf-and-coil 4×4 with an Iveco 2.8-litre common-rail diesel, a flush front with paired round headlamps in body-colour panels and a single-piece bowed windscreen, on 90 and 110-inch wheelbases in station wagon, pickup, double-cab and soft-top forms. A small number came to Britain in right-hand drive as a cheaper alternative to the Defender, before Santana's collapse in 2011 ended the line (the last version was rebadged as the Iveco Massif).
AO52 UXW is one of the British ones: a 110 station wagon registered to Norfolk Constabulary in the 2002–03 registration year, photographed by UK Emergency Vehicles at a public display. It is a deliberately low-key vehicle. There is no light bar, no beacon and no Battenburg; the only markings are a blue POLICE band flanked by blue-and-white chequer blocks on each front door, the force crest and the 'Keeping Norfolk Safe' strapline beneath it, POLICE in blue on the bonnet, and a black bumper carrying an A-frame nudge bar with the registration on its centre. The photographer's own caption notes the absence of blue lights and the minimal livery. What the constabulary used it for is not recorded; a rural force's unmarked-looking 4×4 of this kind is typically a rural-beat, wildlife-crime or estate vehicle rather than a response car. How many Santanas Norfolk ran, and the vehicle's fate, are not known from the source.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) ↗Linares (Jaén), Spain
- Manufactured
- AO52 UXW, registered 2002–03
- Engine type
- Iveco 2.8 L common-rail turbo-diesel inline-four (PS-10 standard fitment)
- Production run
- Unknown — one vehicle documented
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Santana
- 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
- AO52 UXW is a Santana 4×4 used by Norfolk Police (caption: revised and modernised Series 3 built under licence in Spain; not equipped with blue lights; minimal livery) ↗ — UK Emergency Vehicles (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Santana Motor (Linares; Land Rover licence from 1961; PS-10 concept 1999, production from 2002; settlement filed 16 February 2011) ↗ — Wikipedia (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Iveco Massif (restyled Santana PS-10 built at Linares 2007–2011; 2,452 / 2,768 mm wheelbases; 3- and 5-door estates, pickup) ↗ — Wikipedia (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ao52-uxw-is-a-santana-4x4-used-by-norfolk/ https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ao52-uxw-is-a-santana-4x4-used-by-norfolk/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T05:13:15.768Z · status: researched