North Yorkshire Police Rural Task Force Defender

History

North Yorkshire Police's Rural Task Force was formed in 2016 to tackle rural crime — livestock and machinery theft, poaching and hare coursing — across the Dales, Moors and Vale of York. Its Defenders are lettered POLICE SUPPORT rather than as response cars and are kitted for tracks and fields. YG12 VNW, photographed by ukemergency.co.uk, is a 2012 Defender 90 hard top in silver with two rows of blue and yellow battenburg between the arches, POLICE SUPPORT and the force crest with RURAL TASKFORCE on the hard-top sides, alpine lights, Emergency 999 / Non-Emergency 101 contact stickers and silver alloy wheels; the queue lists the base as a 110 but the photographed vehicle is the short-wheelbase 90.

The registry's model is a Defender 90 hard top in silver with the battenburg, lettering, crest, stickers and alloys, and a low-profile blue bar on the roof for the blue-light boost.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 90 hard top)

Manufactured

YG12 registration

Modifier / coachbuilder

North Yorkshire Police (livery and equipment)

Engine type

Ford 2.2 L Duratorq TDCi turbo-diesel

Production run

Production variant; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

in-service

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

90″

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

• Search: Land Rover Defender police ↗ — UK Emergency Vehicles (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 ↗