May 2012 - Police Aviation News
May 2012 - Police Aviation News
May 2012 - Police Aviation News
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<strong>Police</strong> <strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>May</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 4<br />
The incoming government met its election promises and announced that the Queensland<br />
Government will take over funding of a police helicopter on the Gold Coast, with its use expanded<br />
from just over 14 hours a week to 20 hours each week. A second helicopter would<br />
be funded for Brisbane and surrounds by 2014/15.<br />
The combined cost of the helicopters to taxpayers is expected to be $18M. [Brisbane Times]<br />
MORROCCO<br />
GENDARMERIE: Last month five decades<br />
of Eurocopter helicopter operations by<br />
the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie were<br />
celebrated at the <strong>2012</strong> Marrakech Air Show,<br />
where a commemorative plaque was presented<br />
to the military service.<br />
The Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie Air<br />
Squadron operates a fleet of Eurocopter rotorcraft<br />
that covers the company’s product<br />
range, with an inventory including SA3130<br />
Alouette II, SA315 Lama, SA316 Alouette III,<br />
SA342 Gazelle, SA330 Puma, AS355<br />
Ecureuil, AS550 Fennec, EC135, EC145,<br />
EC225, EC332 Super Puma and AS365<br />
Dauphin.<br />
Duties performed by this fleet range from<br />
search and rescue, medical airlift and anticrime<br />
missions to VIP transport and fire<br />
fighting. [EC]<br />
PERU<br />
POLICE: A Bell Huey helicopter searching for dozens of rebel-held hostages in Peru’s<br />
Amazon jungle was attacked with gunfire and a police captain, Nancy Flores, was killed and<br />
three others aboard wounded. The injured were named as the pilot, Major Roberto Ramos,
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