Police aviation

Police helicopters are helicopters a police force that can be used as a management and use of resources. They provide, inter alia, high speed and independence of the state of the site. In addition, you can scan them with large land areas quickly by persons, objects or vehicles.

Application profiles

Police helicopters are mainly used in police operations. This includes, but is

  • Localization of volatile or missing persons or fleeing vehicles ( mobile specifications)
  • Detection of the traffic on the road, especially at extremely busy highways to the main travel time,
  • Delivery of evidence by photo - and videography,
  • Detection of distribution of certain substances or events in the environment and nature conservation (eg water pollution, forest fires),
  • Detection of event locations, such as a crash of an aircraft body,
  • Rescue of accident victims in the mountains or rough terrain,
  • Transportation of persons, such as injured, seriously ill or -making in safety to persons,
  • Special devices, such as SEK - groups,
  • Highly placed politicians or functionaries,

Furthermore, a participation in fire fighting is possible.

Organization ( Germany )

The German police have various police helicopter squadrons. The state police departments each have a police helicopter squadron with the exception of Bremen, Saarland and Schleswig -Holstein. In Mecklenburg- Vorpommern is the helicopter unit of the National Police - two Eurocopter EC 135 - part of the water police. In North Rhine -Westphalia is the name police squadron, as also two fixed-wing aircraft are used.

The largest fleet of police in Germany, the Federal Police ( Federal Police ). The largest fleet of state police, the police squadron North Rhine-Westphalia with seven helicopters and two fixed wing aircraft. Has the largest helicopter fleet of state police, the Bavarian Police Helicopter Squadron with eight machines.

The Federal Police has the Federal Police Aviation Group, headquartered in St. Augustine and is the superior authority for the air service of the Federal Police. Your assumed are five federal police squadrons based in Fuhlendorf, Blumberg, Fulda valley Oberschleißheim and Sankt Augustin, and based in Sankt Augustin Central maintenance squadron and flight training school for police service.

Besides a wide range of tasks for national and international needs support, which includes the safe and efficient conduct of the police, but also humanitarian mission flights, the five federal police squadrons serve twelve air rescue centers in Germany. The required flying ambulance - also called Christoph - be procured by the Federal Ministry of the Interior to air rescue and provided to countries for the purposes of air ambulance available. They bear the inscription Air Rescue - Federal Ministry of the Interior. The Federal Police is responsible for air service so in addition to providing a pilot, and the maintenance and upkeep of these helicopters. After modernization of the fleet, which was concluded in March 2008, consistent with the EC 135 T2i helicopter available that can be used as the modern rescue helicopter are worldwide.

The helicopter crew is in flight under visual flight rules (VFR ) are generally of a pilot and a flight engineer - formerly board waiting, when flying under instrument flight rules (IFR ) always consists of two pilots and, optionally, a flight engineer, or a so-called operator that the thermal imager served.

List of helicopter squadrons of the federal police and state police

As of March 2012, the Federal Police and the federal states were talking following Squadrons:

1 The Federal Police use the helicopter EC 120 Colibri ( solely as a training helicopter ), EC 135 T2i, EC 155 B and AS 332 L1 Super Puma one. The entire fleet of 87 helicopters. 2 seat of the Season leadership is Bad Bramstedt. 3 In the future Oberschleißheim (near Munich) 4 Future unclear because Heeresflugplatz Roth is resolved Together operated 5 from the Berlin police and the federal police

Gallery

San Bernardino County Sheriff 's Department in Victorville (California )

Helicopter of the Swedish police

MD 902 Helicopter Squadron Baden- Württemberg

BK 117C -1 police flying squadron NRW

EC-135 police Brandenburg

Mil Mi - 8 T D HOZH (former police)

Bell Jet Ranger ( Chicago)

AS 332 L1 Super Puma of the Federal Police

EC 155 of the Federal Police on the airfield Bad Gandersheim

Equipment

For police equipment includes, inter alia,

  • A gyro- stabilized binoculars
  • Image intensifier goggles
  • Night vision device
  • BOS radio
  • Searchlight
  • Thermal imaging vision system
  • FLIR system
  • Winch
  • Helicopter Laser Radar
  • Partly comprehensive rescue equipment
  • Partly an external intercom
Spezialeinsatzkommando Landespolizei (Germany) Fuhlendorf, Schleswig-Holstein Ahrensfelde Fuldatal Stuttgart Airport Eurocopter EC 155 Roth Air Base Rastede Eurocopter EC120 Colibri Bad Gandersheim Airport
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