Springfield Armory announced Wednesday that Spain’s Policía Nacional adopted the Echelon 4.0FC 9mm as the issued sidearm for uniformed officers after evaluations against international makers showed it satisfied all accuracy, durability, and reliability criteria.

The 4-inch barrel and slide sit on a full-size grip, giving 17+1 or 20+1 capacity, ambidextrous controls, a transferable stainless chassis, and slide-mounted optics. Testers also ran obstruction, drop, interchangeability, and temperature checks from -4°F to 122°F and prized the modular frames that reconfigure, including compact setups.

HS Produkt partners on the 2023 platform, presented in Spain by Lejarazu Sport SLU. U.S. agencies already field the Echelon, which earned National Tactical Officers Association gold ranking, and the same commercially sold pistol is available to American civilians.