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Police Aviation News May 2014 Police Aviation News May 2014 ©Police Aviation Research Number 217 May 2014 PAR Police Aviation News May 2014 2 PAN—Police Aviation News is published monthly by POLICE AVIATION RESEARCH, 7 Wind- mill Close, Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3BQ UK. Contacts: Main: +44 1992 714162 Cell: +44 7778 296650 Skype: BrynElliott E-mail: [email protected] SPONSORS Bond Air Services/Avincis www.bondaviationgroup.com Broadcast Microwave www..bms-inc.com Churchill Navigation www.churchillnavigation.com Enterprise Control Systems www.enterprisecontrol.co.uk FLIR Systems www.flir.com Honeywell [Skyforce] Mapping www.skyforce.co.uk L3 Wescam www.wescam.com Excellence in avionics www.phoenixavionics.com Powervamp www.powervamp.com RDDS Displays www.rdds.co.uk Trakka Searchlights www.trakkacorp.com Troll Systems Corporation www.trollsystems.com Vislink www.vislink.com Airborne Law Enforcement Association www.alea.org POLICE AVIATION CHINA COAST GUARD: Swedish firm CybAero re- cently sold a number of its APID 60 rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicles to the Chinese coast guard for use aboard customs vessels assigned to combat smuggling. The 180-kg APID 60 is capable of carrying a 75- kg payload for up to six hours per sortie, has a maximum speed of 150 kph, and a max altitude of 3,000 metres. The APID 60 can be operated up to 200 km from a base station located on a ship or land, and costs at least 75% less than a CybAero manned helicopter to operate. China has designed its own helicopter UAVs such as the Z-5 but the quality and perform- ance of these drones fails to match Western types such as the APID 60. The Z-5 designed in 2011 weighs more than twice that of the APID but can only carry a payload of up to 100- kg for three hours and can only be operated 100 km away from a control station. The APID 60 was an original design derived from the APID 55 designed for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), that type remains in license production in the UAE and sells across the world. JAPAN NATIONAL POLICE AGENCY: AgustaWestland and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace have announced that the Japan National Police Agency (JNPA) has ordered another AW139 in- termediate twin helicopter which will be operated in the Kagoshima Prefecture. The AW139 Front Cover Image: A recent sponsor of the Midland Air Ambulance charity is local car dealer Graypaul Birmingham. The dealership sells iconic cars from Ferrari and Maserati and they did a photo shoot with two Maserati cars and MAA’s new ‘hot’ helicopter to showcase a newly established relationship with the charity, with a view to supporting them with a few events this year, to include sponsorship of their Awards and Recognition Ball on 20th June. www.sytner.co.uk [Graypaul] Police Aviation News May 2014 3 helicopter will replace an ageing Bell 412 model and will enter service in 2015. The helicopter has been ordered with a law enforcement configuration that includes rescue hoist, search light, auxiliary tank and dedicated avionic systems such as an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System and Enhanced Vision System. Andrew Symonds, President, AgustaWestland Japan said “This order represents the 9th Prefecture to operate the AW139 helicopter in a law enforcement role and underpins the strength of AgustaWestland’s products in the extremely competitive law enforcement mar- ket where over recent years we have gained significant market share” The Kagoshima order increases the number of AgustaWestland helicopters performing law enforcement operations throughout Japanese prefectures to over 40, which represents 40% of the law enforcement market. The AgustaWestland products providing this capability in- clude the AW109, GrandNew, AW139 and the AW101. The AW139 has proven extremely successful in Japan performing a number of roles includ- ing search and rescue and coast guard duties, firefighting, disaster relief and electronic news gathering with a number of operators. MALTA AFM: Although the first ex- ample of their AW139 heli- copter has yet to be delivered to the customer AgustaWest- land has announced that the Armed Forces of Malta has taken up an option for a sec- ond AW139. The helicopter will be used to conduct mainly maritime border con- trol missions replacing the wholly inadequate ancient Sud Alouette III fleet that dates from the very early days of the AFM. The delivery of the second AW139 is scheduled for June 2015, while the first helicop- ter will be delivered in June this year. This order is part of the ongoing plan to strengthen the capabilities of the AFM using re- sources from the European Borders Fund and Internal Security Fund Programmes. The twin PT6-67A turboshaft powered AW139 is equipped with a state-of-the-art equipment package for maritime patrol and SAR missions and includes a high-definition FLIR system, search/weather radar, cabin mission console, naval transponder, Trakka search light, satel- lite communication system, a 4-axis autopilot with SAR modes, external rescue hoist and a four bag floatation system. The AW139 has been selected by, and is now performing border patrol and SAR duties with, a large number of operators in Italy, UK, USA, Spain, Estonia, Bulgaria, Japan, Re- public of Korea, Malaysia to name a few, placing the type as the market leader in its class. [AW] NIGERIA POLICE: A row is looming over funding of police equipment in the country and that in- cludes funds for helicopters purchased in recent years. It is claimed that Nigeria’s police affairs ministry deliberately misled the House of Represen- tatives in feigning ignorance of a presidential directive mandating the Central Bank of Nige- Police Aviation News May 2014 4 ria to provide N19.7 billion for police equipment, and in denying receipt of the funds. The expenditure, made public two weeks ago, was used to finance the purchase of new helicopters and security equipment for the police. That might have been the end of the matter but for a subsequent police denial that they ever received the funds – despite a clear paper trail apparently proving the movement of funds between source and recipient and the delivery of the helicopters. The documents show how the ministry of police affairs initiated a memo in 2010 asking for CBN Funding, followed through with an application for contract award clearance from the Bureau of Public Procurement, and eventually the awarding of the contract for the pur- chases, approved by President Jonathan. There were three sources of funding, the 2010 budget; the CBN and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; and contributions from the police reforms fund. It is not clear what role the NNPC played and how much it paid to the ministry, as only con- tributions from the CBN were reflected in the communication between the ministry and the president. The equipment requested by the ministry in 2010-11 were four Bell 412 helicopters, 60 ar- moured patrol vans and 40,000 Motorola radios destined to reequip the police for the 2011 Elections. [The Sahara Reporters] Ed: Nigeria has taken delivery of a number of new helicopters since 2010, in addition to the four Bell 412s nominally acquired for 2011 election duties another two were delivered in 2012 as has a Bell 429. It looks like someone simply forgot that the money for them had to have come from somewhere! Tut tut! UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL: The National Crime Agency is appealing to people who work in general aviation or live near small airports to join the fight against organised crime and terrorism by reporting unusual activity. A ‘brand new’ project, codenamed Pegasus, encourages people familiar with small airports to report unusual activity, threats and vulnerabilities as- sociated with general aviation - activity outside commercial passenger flights and large-scale airfreight. Anyone with information about unusual activity at airports, and in particular those who work in general aviation or who live near small airports and landing strips, can report anony- mously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or to their local police force on 101, quoting “Pegasus”. Further information on Project Pegasus is available on the NCA campaigns pages http:// www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/campaigns/project-pegasus-aviation-vigilance Ed: Nothing new here, another reinvention of the wheel, probably by a new boss, with a new brainwave that’s just an old project that has been forgotten about because no-one maintained it last time. It is relatively easy to propagate in the UK where ‘plane spotting’ is a hobby that is considered strange behaviour in other parts of the world. Despite spotting be- ing unusual the USA sought to introduce a similar project in the aftermath of 9-11. Police Aviation News May 2014 5 CUMBRIA: A TV-repair shop owner has become the first person convicted in the UK for “dangerously” flying a UAS. Robert Knowles, 46, of Barrow-in-Furness, a town and seaport in the county of Cumbria on the Irish Sea coast, was fined £800 and ordered to pay costs of £3,500 at court after being prosecuted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). A high volume user of the craft – there are currently over 300 YouTube videos taken from his craft on-line - he pleaded guilty to flying a small unmanned surveillance aircraft within 50 metres of a structure – the Jubilee Bridge on the Walney channel – and flying over a nu- clear installation, the BAE Systems submarine-testing facility that Barrow is most famous for. The CAA said that the case raised important safety issues concerning recreational flying of unmanned aircraft, which is legal as long as it is done away from built-up areas and struc- tures. They stated that the Jubilee Bridge and the vehicles on it raised the possibility that the device could have hit a car and caused an accident.
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