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Police Aviation News May 2011 8
One of the helicopters will be based at Shoreham, Sussex and the other in Hampshire but
they will both provide cover for all three force areas.
Editor: But of course NPAS plans that one, the MD902 Explorer in Sussex will go and the
Surrey operation will move from its current ‘Gipsy retreat’ base at an RAF station in Hampshire
to a new yet-to-be-built facility at Dunsfold in Surrey.
It seems clear that someone is already writing the next ‘massive improvement, greater savings,
more efficient’ script that will cover that scenario in the next two years or so.
NORTH YORKSHIRE: Meanwhile one of
the ‘have not’ police forces of the UK scene continues
to make use of the volunteer sector. Everyone
in ‘real’ air support [aka £5M helicopters]
wrings their hands but the little stick and string air
resources continue to do the job perfectly well.
A Cessna 152 crashed on Ingleborough in the
remote and picturesque Yorkshire Dales whilst
on a night training exercise from Blackpool,
thankfully without killing anyone. The local volunteer
air sector kept an eye on the upturned wreck
and as a result an AirSearch Sky Ranger flown
by Mike Poole and Andy Dixon out of Rufforth
(York) were on hand to take a picture of people
at the wreck. That image suggests that there is a
man apparently removing parts from the aircraft.
A section has been enlarged and forwarded
to North Yorkshire Police.