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[email protected] Police Aviation Research Airborne Law Enforcement Member since 1994—Corporate Member since 2014 SPONSORS Airborne Technologies www.airbornetechnologies.at AeroComputers www.aerocomputers.com Avalex www.avalex.com Broadcast Microwave www.bms-inc.com Enterprise Control Systems www.enterprisecontrol.co.uk L3 Wescam www.wescam.com Powervamp www.powervamp.com Trakka Searchlights www.trakkacorp.com Airborne Law Enforcement Association www.alea.org LAW ENFORCEMENT CAYMAN ISLANDS POLICE AIR OPERATIONS UNIT: The police have recruited a second pilot for the RCIPS Air Operations Unit (AOU). Richard Morcombe, who is currently flying with the UK National Police Air Service, is a former pilot with the British army and formerly flew the high skid EC135T1 helicopter VP-CPS now operated by the RCIPS for four years when he was stationed at the East Midlands Air Support Unit base before it was purchased by the Cay- man government. Morcombe will join the team in mid-September. He has been flying police helicopters for the last 13 years and has 7,000 hours of operational flight experience, includ- ing numerous day and night overwater operations around the world. This will not be his first time in Cayman as he has previously flown two relief duty periods in the Cayman Islands in 2010 and 2011.