Straż Graniczna Defender 110
A Straż Graniczna (Polish Border Guard) Defender 110 station wagon, HWA A334, photographed on the Vistula Spit where the Warmińsko-Mazurski unit patrols the frontier with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave: plain dark green, black chequer-plate wing tops and arch flares, an electric winch on the front bumper, and a roof light bar whose centre panel reads STRAŻ GRANICZNA.
History
The Straż Graniczna is Poland's border security agency, re-established in 1990 and operational from 16 May 1991 under the Ministry of the Interior. Its nine regional units include the Warmińsko-Mazurski unit at Kętrzyn, which holds the northern land border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave — from the Lithuanian tripoint west to the Baltic, where the border cuts across the Vistula Spit (Mierzeja Wiślana) in the dunes and pine woods beyond the village of Piaski. That last section is sand track rather than road, and the unit works it with Land Rover Defenders.
The documented vehicle is HWA A334, a Defender 110 five-door station wagon of the Td5 or early Puma years, photographed on the Spit on 15 August 2014 by Wikimedia Commons contributor LukaszKatlewa. It is a working vehicle rather than a marked patrol car: plain dark green with a body-colour roof and no lettering on the panels, black plastic wheel-arch flares, black chequer-plate protection on the wing tops, black steel wheels on mud tyres, a heavy black front bumper carrying an electric winch with a roller fairlead, a whip antenna on the bonnet, and a blue light bar over the windscreen whose white centre panel carries the service's name in green. The engine, the Guard's total Defender numbers and the vehicle's fate are not stated in the source.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover
- Manufactured
- Defender 110 station wagon; photographed in service August 2014, build date not recorded
- Engine type
- Not recorded in the source (Td5 or 2.4 Puma era by appearance)
- Production run
- Unknown — one vehicle documented
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- Poland
- 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
- File: Polish Border Guard at Polish-Russian state border.jpg — Border Guard patrol vehicle on the Mierzeja Wiślana at Piaski, 15 August 2014 (CC BY-SA 4.0, LukaszKatlewa) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Polish Border Guard — re-established 1990, operational 16 May 1991; Ministry of the Interior; Warmińsko-Mazurski regional unit at Kętrzyn; Land Rover Defender in the fleet ↗ — Wikipedia (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_Border_Guard_at_Polish-Russian_state_border.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_Border_Guard_at_Polish-Russian_state_border.jpg ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T05:30:43.596Z · status: researched