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We offer cull/management stalking for experienced and novice stalkers, catering to your requirements. 01922 722988 or 07958 942960 [email protected] www.keithshighseats.co.uk Contents Provost Parade Editorial Team Chairman of the Journal Foreword and Editorial ...................................4 Gp Capt M S Sexton PM(RAF) 95991 6066 Coordinating Committed, Responsive and RAFP-HQ PM Adaptive Force Protection p11 Force Elements .....................................................5 Editor HQ Air Force Protection Sqn Ldr A J Porter Commitments Staff .............................................5 95991 6176 RAFP-HQ A3 A9 SO2 HQ RAFP Relocation to the Force Protection HQ at RAF Honington ...........................................6 Assistant Editor WO S Coppard 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF Police ...8 95991 6131 RAFP-HQ PMWO British Forces South Atlantic Islands - RAFP Operation NEWCOMBE ................................. 22 Dog Trials .................................................................. 11 Provost Parade Shop Manager Op Helvetic G8 Summit .............................. 24 Covert and Scientific Support Flight ..... 12 FS Paul Symons Exercise WINTERMARCH 2013 ................. 26 93835 4852 Life at The Defence Animal Centre ......... 13 02392 284852 603 Sqn Aviation Nights ............................ 28 Batoning Down Personal Safety ............. 14 Postal Sales Manager 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Cpl Dallinger MoD Corsham - Joint Cyber Unit .............15 Auxiliary Air Force Update ........................ 29 93835 4356 02392 284356 OP ATALANTA - RAF Police Support to Air Command Force Protection Force Anti-Piracy Missions .................................... 17 Development .......................................................... 30 Curator of the RAF Police Museum Sgt Wilkinson RAF Cosford Airshow ................................... 18 RAFP Reflections from the Past to the 93835 4803 Present...................................................................31 Keeping the Peace at RAF Waddington 20 02392 284803 Triple Crown Challenge .............................. 32 DCPG-TrgWg-CDT-RAFPPSSME p26 Charity news........................................................33 Future Submissions Address: The Battle of the Editor Provost Parade Lincolnshire Ashes ....................................... 37 HQ RAFP SO2 A3/A9 Force Protection HQ Mod Corsham Field Gun Crew ......................38 RAF Honington Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1EE Tel: 01359 239560 ext 6176 Email: [email protected] Provost Parade is not an official publication and the views expressed in this magazine, unless otherwise stated, do not reflect MoD, Command © This magazine contains official information and should be or Station policy and are the personal views of treated with discretion by the recipient. 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British Forces South Atlantic Islands Provost Parade 3 Commander RAFP / Provost Marshal (RAF) y the time that you read this, I will skills deployed on numerous complex and and every one of you and your partners and have come to the end of my tour as extremely high profile investigations and a families who provide you with unstinting BCommander RAF Police and Provost raft of high-end counter-intelligence and support and love. Marshal (RAF) and will have been replaced by security outputs in support of major events, Gp Capt Kevin Bailey as I depart for a 6-month red-teaming and the routine activity of the The remarkable characteristics and traits of tour at the Afghan National Defence University, Service. What makes it even more impressive is the men and women who together form the Kabul. It has been a great honour and privilege that all this has been achieved throughout an Branch and Trade will continue to serve us well to command the Force for the last 2 years, unparalleled period of operations and against a as we look towards a future beyond HERRICK, throughout which it has continued to excel backdrop of redundancies, the Olympic Games, for which we are exceptionally well-placed. across its huge spectrum of operational outputs Force reorganisation, diminished resource The operational pedigree and performance of on enduring and contingent operations in and the wider dynamics of global insecurity. the Force, its delivery of integrated FP, security the UK and around the world. The immense YOU – the multi-skilled, professionally qualified and policing effects alongside other elements contribution that RAF Police men and women and experienced, agile and adaptable men of Air FP, the seamless operation of the Force’s make to the efficient and effective delivery and women of the RAF Police - are at the heart command and control within the integrated of integrated Force Protection effects for of all that we do and provide the Force with FP Force HQ and the continuing hard work to Air is gaining substantial recognition within its fighting edge which is key to current and refine structures and develop new and existing the Air chain-of-command, across Defence future success. I have been hugely impressed capabilities within wider Air FP for the future and Government and amongst the general throughout my visits to stations and squadrons operational environment stand us in excellent public and is something of which we should with the selfless commitment and forbearance stead for the future. The next few years offer all be justifiably proud. And those effects are of the RAF Police, collectively and individually real opportunities that you should embrace delivered day in and day out, on ops and in at all levels. The professionalism and capability wholeheartedly on equal terms and also many the UK and across a huge spectrum of general of all members of the Force shines through, challenges which you should face as one under and specialist tasks. Much of the focus has but so does the morale, fighting spirit, esprit de the leadership of Gp Capt Bailey, capitalising on rightly been on the operational sphere and corps, robustness and resilience, without which and developing the unique skills, identity and the outputs of TPS and the other units and the RAF Police could not consistently deliver ethos of the RAF Police. My very best wishes individuals employed right at the sharp end of so successfully against the unrelenting cycle of to all of you and my sincere thanks for your Op HERRICK, Op NEWCOMBE and in support operations. And I am acutely conscious of the outstanding performance and loyal support of the Middle East Exercise programme on human costs associated with all of this: the very throughout my tour. I will continue to watch WIS, CS, MWD, CISU, SIB, APSS, Avn Sy, GPD and sad loss of Brent McCarthy, Mick McConnell’s future developments with a very keen and other duties. But we have also maintained an life-changing wounds and the injuries suffered active interest. outstanding level of support to Air in the UK, by others; and the pressures and stresses that Fiat Justitia providing GPD coverage, specialist investigative the operational tempo has imposed on each Group Captain Mark Sexton Editorial write this having taken over the Provost involved and on the front foot in being As you will see, your Parade “baton” from Sqn Ldr John Duffy prepared to support Expeditionary Air Wing I who over the past two years has compiled Force Protection operations and the wider support to exercises an excellent array of varied, interesting and UK Defence effort for operating effectively professional publications and I hope to in the Future Operating Environment. such as Ex CAPABLE follow in his footsteps to ensure that the EAGLE at RAF Leeming full spectrum of Committed, Adaptive and As you will see, notwithstanding the Responsive operational deployments, tasks operational outputs and maintaining core has