Police Scotland Underwater Search Unit Defender 110
Police Scotland Underwater Search Unit Land Rover Defender 110 hard top SN12 CHZ, the dive and water-rescue team's white battenburg-liveried vehicle based alongside the Coastguard at Greenock fire station on the Clyde, photographed in January 2015.
History
Police Scotland's Underwater Search Unit, inherited from Strathclyde Police when the national force formed in 2013, is based at Greenock on the Clyde, sharing the fire station site with the Coastguard. Its divers search rivers, lochs and the coast for evidence and missing people and provide water rescue cover, and their Defender 110 hard top carries dive kit and compressed-air cylinders — hence the hazard diamond on the body — to slipways and riverbanks the unit's vans cannot reach.
The January 2015 Flickr photograph shows SN12 CHZ outside the Greenock station: white Puma-era 110 hard top with two rows of blue and yellow battenburg along the doors and rear body up to the rear arch, POLICE in blue on the front doors and bonnet, the Police Scotland saltire crest and a green compressed-gas diamond on the hard-top sides with the force's Twitter handle beneath, a small hard-top window, a full-length roof rack carrying the spare wheel and two spot lamps, a plain black bumper and white steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Marine and Police groups.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 110 hard top, 2012)
- Manufactured
- SN12 registration (Mar–Aug 2012); photographed January 2015
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Police Scotland (dive-unit fit and livery)
- Engine type
- Ford Duratorq 2.2 L TDCi turbo-diesel
- Production run
- 1
- 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
- Police Scotland Underwater Search Unit Land Rover SN12 CHZ (Flickr, 73612929@N07) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/73612929@N07/16157283669/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/73612929@N07/16157283669/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T08:19:19.132Z · status: researched