Police Aviation News November 2008
Police Aviation News November 2008
Police Aviation News November 2008
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<strong>Police</strong> <strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>November</strong> <strong>2008</strong> 2<br />
PAN – POLICE AVIATION NEWS is published monthly by<br />
INTERNATIONAL POLICE AVIATION RESEARCH<br />
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LAW ENFORCEMENT<br />
SOUTH AFRICA<br />
The South African <strong>Police</strong> Service [SAPS] ordered six new Robinson<br />
R44 helicopters and deliveries commenced this summer.<br />
The primary use of the craft is believed to be training.<br />
The SAPS chose the Flight Management Systems FMS Moving<br />
Map for their new aircraft and the six were delivered with<br />
the FMS Moving Map systems installed.<br />
Senior Superintendent Petrus Oberholster, Commander National<br />
Heliport SAPS Air Wing had the opportunity to view a<br />
fully operational system at the ALEA National Conference in<br />
Houston Texas, before taking delivery of the first aircraft. [FMS]<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
One of the new R44 helicopters on flight<br />
test with Robinson this summer.<br />
CHILTERN: The International Credit Crises is being blamed for setbacks to the programme<br />
for a new police helicopter for the multi-force Chiltern Consortium.<br />
It is claimed that a £250,000 [$500,000] hole has appeared in the funds set aside for a new<br />
Eurocopter EC135 P2 helicopter to be based at RAF Benson, Oxford.<br />
It is being reported that the police have gone to the Government for a grant to ensure they<br />
can buy the helicopter, despite the fact that the grant aid has already been allocated, the<br />
airframe recently ordered and the deposit paid on the basis of a price of about £4.35M. It is<br />
now being suggested that the ‘about’ figure has moved upwards thanks to the weakening of<br />
Sterling against both the Euro and the US Dollar. The cost is now £4.65M.<br />
Chiltern is the lead authority on the purchase of a handful of EC135P2 helicopters that are<br />
to be delivered to UK police forces over the next couple of years. Each of these will have an<br />
identical specification which it is hoped will serve to reduce prices and increase the overall<br />
value to the operator.<br />
An annual report on the existing<br />
EC135T1 helicopter G-CHSU based at<br />
Benson showed it had attended 1,004<br />
incidents in the county between April<br />
2007 and April <strong>2008</strong>. It led to 98 arrests,<br />
found 17 missing people and<br />
evacuated seven people to hospital.
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