PKW UNIFIL Zandarmeria Wojskowa Defender 110

History

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 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 one such soft-top 110 chained to a trailer in a Polish port: white cab, white canvas over the rear body, UN on the doors, the light bar, spare wheel on the bonnet and white steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 110 soft top)

Manufactured

ZW Defender purchases; photographed December 2009

Modifier / coachbuilder

Żandarmeria Wojskowa (light bar, UN livery)

Engine type

Land Rover Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel

Production run

unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

Poland, Lebanon, Syria, United Nations

Status

historic

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

• Powrót sprzętu PKW UNIFIL i UNDOF (03) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-12)
• Polski Kontyngent Wojskowy w Libanie ↗ — Wikipedia (pl) (accessed 2026-09-12)

Catalogue references

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powr%C3%B3t_sprz%C4%99tu_PKW_UNIFIL_i_UNDOF_(03).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powr%C3%B3t_sprz%C4%99tu_PKW_UNIFIL_i_UNDOF_(03).jpg ↗