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Santana Motor of Linares built Land Rovers under licence from 1958 and continued with its own derivatives after Land Rover withdrew in the mid-1980s. The Aníbal, sold abroad as the PS-10, was the company's last original design: begun in 1997 under factory director José Antonio Navarro Yagüe, shown at the Madrid motor show on 23 May 2002 and produced until Santana was wound up in February 2011. It used the Iveco 8140.43P — a 2,798 cc turbocharged common-rail four of 92 kW (125 CV) and 275 Nm — with a five-speed gearbox and dual-ratio transfer case, parabolic leaf springs, a 3,050 kg gross weight, a tonne of payload and a 100-litre tank. Around 1,700 went to the Spanish Army, with further sales to France and the Czech Republic.
Military police work is one of the roles the army fleet covers. Policía Militar units handle route control and convoy escort, traffic regulation on military movements, security at installations and general discipline duties, and their vehicles are marked to be recognisable to civilians as well as soldiers: army green with white 'PM' lettering on the body sides, a blue light bar over the cab, and Ejército de Tierra ET-series plates. The Aníbal suited the work because it was already the fleet's standard liaison vehicle, and both body styles appear — the soft top with its canvas tilt over the rear body, and the five-door station wagon.
The Unidad Militar de Emergencias, the joint military emergency unit created in 2005, took 225 Aníbals of its own and runs military police vehicles among them. These wear a more conspicuous scheme suited to working alongside civil emergency services on public roads: army green with 'POLICIA MILITAR' in yellow along the bonnet and body sides, a yellow-and-black chequered flash along the waist, a blue light bar and the UME's roof rack and spare wheel. The example photographed here carries the shield of BIEM I. As across the rest of the fleet, these vehicles are now being replaced — the UME began buying 292 Volkswagen Amaroks from 2016, and the army's Aníbals are giving way to the VMTT programme's Iturri Landtrek and Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles.
