Guernsey Police Armoured 110

Guernsey is a Crown dependency of some 63,000 people with its own police force, and in 2012 that force bought an armoured Land Rover Defender 110 for roughly £180,000. The reasoning was stated plainly by the then Chief of Police, Patrick Rice: it was his job to ensure the island was adequately protected. The vehicle exists for the narrow case of an immediate risk to life or an armed individual — to recover injured people from a scene, or to put paramedics into one.

Eleven years later the island's press reported that it had still never been used in its primary role. It has been deployed on training exercises over the years, but never operationally. That is not, on the force's account, a waste: it remains available to officers and is described as a very valuable tool to have.

The running costs are correspondingly small — around £190 a year, of which roughly £50 is mechanical parts and £140 labour and fuel — with the armour recertified every ten years for a modest further sum. A vehicle that sits waiting is cheap to keep; the £180,000 was the whole of the expense.

The converter is not named in the reporting, and no engine specification or registration has been published. A 2012 Defender 110 would be a Ford Duratorq 'Puma' car, but the sources consulted do not state it.