UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) 2016 Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Services ESF Scholarship: Inspector Craig SHEPHERD Position: Unit Commander – Police Air Wing Organisation: Victoria Police Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Service Version.1 December 2016 Page 1 UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) Table of Contents 1 Part 1 - Introduction .......................................................................................... 3 1.1 Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Purpose of the Scholarship ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 Australian Context – RPAS Capabilities Law Enforcement Agencies ..................................... 7 1.5 Victorian Context – RPAS Capabilities in Victoria .......................................................................... 8 2 Part 2 – Study Tour Overview ............................................................................ 9 3 Part 3 – Study Tour Outcomes ......................................................................... 15 3.1 National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) Drones Portfolio via Surrey and Sussex Police16 3.2 QinetiQ UK – Boscombe Downs ......................................................................................................... 24 3.3 QinetiQ UK – Malvern ............................................................................................................................ 36 3.4 UAS Capability Development Centre & National Cross-Government Working Group for Counter-UAS ..................................................................................................................................................... 39 3.5 Home Office's Centre for Applied Science & Technology ....................................................... 44 3.6 Steven Adams - London Fire Brigade ............................................................................................... 49 3.7 National Counter Terrorism Policing HQ (NCTPHQ) .................................................................. 52 3.8 David Owen, North East Counter Terrorism Unit ....................................................................... 58 3.9 National Offenders Management Service (NOMS) .................................................................... 61 3.10 Attend the European Commercial UAV Conference and Exhibition .................................. 64 3.11 Royal National Life Boat Institute (RNLI) and Skybound Rescuer ........................................ 73 3.12 2016 EENA & DJI Project ....................................................................................................................... 77 3.13 Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police Drone Unit ....................................................................... 86 3.14 Northamptonshire Police & Fire Rescue ........................................................................................ 92 3.15 Police Scotland Air Support Unit - Glasgow .................................................................................. 98 3.16 National Police Aviation Service (NPAS) ....................................................................................... 108 3.17 Lippitts Hill NPAS Base - London ...................................................................................................... 111 4 CASA Regulations in Australia ....................................................................... 114 5 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 115 5.1 Recommendations ................................................................................................................................. 116 5.2 Lessons Learnt ......................................................................................................................................... 117 5.3 RPAS Categories ...................................................................................................................................... 117 5.4 Terms and Abbreviations .................................................................................................................... 119 Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Service Version.1 December 2016 Page 2 UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) 1 Part 1 - Introduction 1.1 Acknowledgements I acknowledge the support and contributions of the following organisations and persons who have either supported this scholarship and or supported me whilst undertaking this study tour. Organisations: . Emergency Services Foundation Victoria (stakeholders and their representative management teams) . Victoria Police Force . Victoria Police Air Wing . New South Wales Police . Australian Federal Police . Babcock International Group . Leonardo’s Helicopters . National Police Chiefs Council (UK) . QinetiQ UK . Unmanned Air Systems Capability Development Centre (UASCDC) via the Home Office UK . Centre for Applied Science & Technology (CAST), Home Office UK . London Fire Brigade and BlueLight Project . UK National Counter Terrorism Policing HQ (NCTPHQ) . North East Counter Terrorism Unit, West Yorkshire Police . National Offenders Management Service (NOMS) . 2016 Commercial UAV Show UK (Terrapin Events Company) . Royal National Lifeboat Institute, UK (provided via Skybound Rescuer) . European Emergency Number Association (EENA) . Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service (UK) . Donegal Mountain Rescue (Ireland) . Greater Copenhagen Fire Department (Denmark) . Reykjavik SAR Team (Iceland) . Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police . Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service . Police Scotland Air Support Unit and UAV Unit . National Police Air Service (NPAS) for England and Wales (Wakefield, England) . NPAS – Lippitts Hill NPAS Base Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Service Version.1 December 2016 Page 3 UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) I would specifically like to acknowledge the following people for their support both in Australian and whilst on the study tour: . Inspector Randy Anderson, Victoria Police Force . Acting Sergeant David Christie, Victoria Police Force . Chief Inspector Stefan Kent, New South Wales Police Force . Sergeant Julian Webber, Australian Federal Police RPAS Unit . Ms Lauren Adams, Director of Aviation Onshore, Babcock (Aviation Company) . Jeff Salvestro-Martin, Leonardo Helicopters . Inspector Mark Callaghan, Operations Commander, Surrey and Sussex Police and support officer to Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry UK (NPCC) . Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Steve Barry, Surrey and Sussex Police . Chris Harrison, QinetiQ UK, Farnborough, Airborne Surveillance, QinetiQ . Ian Fuller, QinetiQ UK, Malvern Technology Centre, Lead for Airborne Surveillance in QinetiQ . Emma Hodgetts, Engineering Manager, Chief Air Engineer Group BCE, Farnborough . Alex Cruttwell, QinetiQ UK, Boscombe Down, Airborne Surveillance, QinetiQ . Carl Davies from the UASCDC . Detective Chief Inspector Colin Smith, Centre for Applied Science & Technology (CAST), Home Office UK . Alan Brooke from the Home Office's Centre for Applied Science & Technology . David Rowlett (non police) CAST Chief Remote Pilot, UAV Capability . Steven Adams, Strategy and Inclusion, London Fire Brigade . Inspector Trebess, National Counter Terrorism Policing HQ (NCTPHQ) . David Owen, North East Counter Terrorism, West Yorkshire . Joanna Parish, C-UAS Lead for National Offenders Management Service (NOMS) . Gemma Alcock (Skybound Rescuer) representing the RNLI, UK . EENA and JI Project Team . Inspector Andrew Hamilton, Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police, UK . Phillip Pells, Group Commander, Joint Operations Team, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service . Kevin Hardwick, Joint Operations Team, Northamptonshire Police & Fire and Rescue Service . PC Stuart Neilson, Police Scotland UAV Unit (Air Support Unit) . Inspector Nickolas Whyte, Air Support Unit, Police Scotland . Mr Russell Woolford, NPAS, Assistant Operations Director UK Police Sergeant Andrew Hutchinson, Lippitts Hill NPAS Air Base Manager Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Service Version.1 December 2016 Page 4 UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) Establishing a Remote Piloted Aircraft & Systems (RPAS) Unit for Police and Emergency Service Version.1 December 2016 Page 5 UNCLASSIFIED Emergency Services Foundation Scholarship - Final Report 2016/2017 Inspector Craig Shepherd (Victoria Police Air Wing) 1.2 Purpose of the Scholarship To travel to England and Scotland to gain specialist