Law-enforcement News

Mesa Police buy 11-year old 500E despite production line in town

Mesa Police buy 11-year old 500E despite production line in town

11-Oct-2009Source: AZ Central

With prices for new helicopters too expensive, particularly given the city’s fiscal constraints, the City Council this week approved purchase of a 1998 model MD500E, a general purpose utility and executive transport helicopter that has been widely popular with law enforcement agencies.... Read more

Arkansas allocates $3.5M for a new State Police helicopter

Arkansas allocates $3.5M for a new State Police helicopter

9-Oct-2009Source: Arkansas Times

The state has announced $9.6 million in federal stimulus money will go to state and local law enforcement needs, including $3.5 million for a new State Police helicopter with a hoist to use in rescue efforts in remote areas.... Read more

Westchester County Aviation Unit keeps busy

Westchester County Aviation Unit keeps busy

6-Oct-2009Source: Examiner.com

Westchester residence can feel safer now that there are two helicopters patrolling the skies.  The criminals may out run our ground police, but they can never out run the Westchester County Aviation Unit.... Read more

American Eurocopter Donates $10,000 to Airborne Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission

American Eurocopter Donates $10,000 to Airborne Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission

6-Oct-2009Source: American Eurocopter

During the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) convention in Denver, Colorado, today, American Eurocopter donated $10,000 to the Airborne Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (ALEAC).... Read more

Twin-engine safety rules will ground three NSW police helicopters

Twin-engine safety rules will ground three NSW police helicopters

5-Oct-2009Source: Sydney Morning Herald

New Civil Aviation Safety Authority requirements that will make it mandatory for police helicopters to have two engines... Read more

Trooper 6 Medevac Helicopter To Relocate From Centreville To Easton

Trooper 6 Medevac Helicopter To Relocate From Centreville To Easton

2-Oct-2009Source: WJZ

The Maryland State Police Trooper 6 medevac helicopter is relocating from Centreville to a hangar at the Easton Airport.... Read more

Brunswick commissioner regrets Sheriff helicopter acquisition

Brunswick commissioner regrets Sheriff helicopter acquisition

1-Oct-2009Source: Star News

Brunswick’s County new helicopter is a liability and will cost more in the long run than using a shared helicopter with Wilmington, the vice chairman of the board of commissioners said Wednesday.... Read more

Police Aviation News – October 2009 edition

Police Aviation News – October 2009 edition

1-Oct-2009Source: Police Aviation News

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Jackson Police announces new Sergeant of their Aviation Unit

Jackson Police announces new Sergeant of their Aviation Unit

1-Oct-2009Source: WBBJ

The Jackson Police Department announced the promotion of a 20-year veteran officer... Read more

Pratt & Whitney Canada Signs Fleet Management Program With Netherlands Police Agency

Pratt & Whitney Canada Signs Fleet Management Program With Netherlands Police Agency

30-Sep-2009Source: Pratt & Whitney Canada

Pratt & Whitney Canada Customer Service Centre Europe has signed a new 10-year Fleet Management Program agreement with the Netherlands Police Agency to provide comprehensive maintenance support for P&WC engines installed on its fleet of Eurocopter EC135 and AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters.... Read more

Eurocopter keeps on expanding in the United Kingdom

Eurocopter keeps on expanding in the United Kingdom

24-Sep-2009Source: Eurocopter

The company exhibits the EC135 “L’Hélicoptère par Hermès” as centre piece, as well as a large array of eight state-of-the-art helicopters: a London “Met” EC145, an EC135 by Suffolk Police, the UK’s first helicopter – an EC135 – dedicated to offshore wind farm maintenance, a utility AS355 NP used by National Grid for powerline inspections,... Read more

West Midlands Police orders new EC135 to replace arson casualty airframe

West Midlands Police orders new EC135 to replace arson casualty airframe

24-Sep-2009Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter UK announces the order for a new EC135 for West Midlands Police Air Support Unit. On top, Eurocopter will provide a fully equipped EC135 police helicopter to take over the duties of the West Midlands EC135 destroyed by fire in a recent arson attack until the new aircraft will be delivered in summer 2010.... Read more

Helitech: Police helicopters take the stage

Helitech: Police helicopters take the stage

23-Sep-2009Source: Rotorhub

The future of UK’s Police Helicopters has taken centre stage at this year’s Helitech.... Read more

South Africa adds five more FMS Moving Maps to their Police fleet

South Africa adds five more FMS Moving Maps to their Police fleet

23-Sep-2009Source: Vertical

Flight Management Systems of Calgary, Canada has announced that Carl Zeiss Optronics (PTY) has received 5 FMS Moving Map integration kits intended for the South African Police Service BO-105 helicopters and Pilatus PC-6 fixed wing aircraft. This brings the total number of FMS Moving Map systems flying with the SAPS, to eleven.... Read more

Avalex Technologies Sees Growth in European Law Enforcement Market

Avalex Technologies Sees Growth in European Law Enforcement Market

23-Sep-2009Source: RotorNews

Avalex Technologies is teaming with the United Kingdom’s Police Aviation Services to ensure its airborne teams of pilots and engineers have the most rugged, reliable and easy-to-use technologies on the market.... Read more

70% of Russia to have police aviation cover within 5 years

70% of Russia to have police aviation cover within 5 years

23-Sep-2009Source: Aviaport

70% of the territory of Russia will be reached after 5 years of aviation detachments of police, said today the Minister of Interior Rashid Nurgaliyev transmit “Vesti”.... Read more

MD Helicopters Delivers an MD500E® to Columbus, Ohio Police Unit

MD Helicopters Delivers an MD500E® to Columbus, Ohio Police Unit

22-Sep-2009Source: Vertical

MD Helicopters held a special delivery ceremony at its Mesa, Arizona completion facility on August 31 to tender the keys to a brand new MD 500E Helicopter to the City of Columbus Police Department.... Read more

Paraguay Police order three helicopters, hopes for two more

Paraguay Police order three helicopters, hopes for two more

22-Sep-2009Source: Ultima Hora

Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola said during a news conference that the helicopters will be used primarily to support the work of ground staff, especially in cases of persecution, impenetrable fly zones and to conduct rescue work.... Read more

Sheriff’s helicopter ready for missions in Brunswick County

Sheriff’s helicopter ready for missions in Brunswick County

18-Sep-2009Source: Star News

Two months later than expected, the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office’s Bell OH-58 series helicopter – called “Brunswick Air One” – is now available.... Read more

Tulare Police to get helicopter support

Tulare Police to get helicopter support

18-Sep-2009Source: Visalia Times Delta

With the approval by the Tulare City Council, the city’s Police Department entered into an agreement with Blue Sky Aviation for helicopter support. Six other departments in the county joined the agreement.... Read more

Kenya Police Air Wing stops flights after crash

Kenya Police Air Wing stops flights after crash

18-Sep-2009Source: Daily Nation

The Kenya Police Air Wing has halted all training for new pilots after Monday night’s accident involving an instructor and his student in Nairobi.  Consequently, and because of the shortage of staff in the department, this means the force will now have to rely on the military to airlift its officers until a solution is... Read more

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Turkish Police MD600N

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Turkish Police MD600N

17-Sep-2009Source: Airliners.net

Turkish Police MD600N... Read more

Japan National Police Agency Orders a AW139 to replace AS332L1

Japan National Police Agency Orders a AW139 to replace AS332L1

15-Sep-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace are pleased to announce that the Japan National Police Agency (JNPA) has ordered another medium lift AW139 helicopter to replace the Chiba prefecture’s AS332L1 helicopter.... Read more

Mauritius Police's new Dhruv arrives from India

Mauritius Police's new Dhruv arrives from India

11-Sep-2009Source: L'Express

Dhruv will be responsible for rescue operations and surveillance of our Exclusive Economic Zone. It can also be transformed by ambulance to transport the injured in case of extreme emergency.... Read more

Bayern Police to sell nine EC135P2 helicopters – eight new P2+ models pending delivery

Bayern Police to sell nine EC135P2 helicopters – eight new P2+ models pending delivery

11-Sep-2009Source: Bayern Police

The Bavarian Police will auction nine used Police Helicopter Type EC 135 P 2 within the time period January 2010 to July 2010.... Read more

A world first – Skyquest’s PC in a display

A world first – Skyquest’s PC in a display

10-Sep-2009Source: Skyquest Aviation

Skyquest Aviation is using Helitech to launch two revolutionary smart displays that, for the first time, will allow customers to run their own software applications on an embedded fan-less PC.... Read more

Edmonton’s new police helicopter unveiled

Edmonton’s new police helicopter unveiled

10-Sep-2009Source: Edmonton Journal

The Edmonton Police Service’s newest member of its flight operations unit went to work right after its unveiling ceremony Wednesday where it was made welcomed by police Chief Mike Boyd and other civic officials.... Read more

Man Sentenced To 3 Years For Lasering Helicopter

Man Sentenced To 3 Years For Lasering Helicopter

9-Sep-2009Source: CBS13

Balltazar Valladares, 30, pleaded guilty in June to shining a high-powered green laser at a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department helicopter on March 16, 2009. The helicopter was searching for a suspect who had shined a green laser at a Southwest Airlines flight that was landing at the Sacramento International Airport two hours earlier.... Read more

Skyquest Aviation adds the missing piece to the HD jigsaw

Skyquest Aviation adds the missing piece to the HD jigsaw

9-Sep-2009Source: http://www.skyquest.co.uk/pressNews%20200809.htm

Skyquest Aviation will unveil the first-ever production model HD (High Definition) video recorder at Helitech. Aimed firmly at the airborne surveillance sector, the world’s first lightweight HD recorder – a mere ten per cent the size and weight of the equivalent commercial device – allows a full mission’s worth of HD video to be stored... Read more

Winnipeg Police Service "could have a helicopter as early as 2010"

Winnipeg Police Service "could have a helicopter as early as 2010"

8-Sep-2009Source: Winnipeg Free Press

The author of a 2002 study into a police helicopter for Winnipeg is willing to do it all over again, but this time he’d like a reply.  Kim Hards, a quality assurance manager for an Alberta helicopter company, said recently he’s willing to put together another report, but only if the Winnipeg Police Service is... Read more

Eurocopter South East Asia signs a contract with Royal Thai Police for 3 EC155s

Eurocopter South East Asia signs a contract with Royal Thai Police for 3 EC155s

8-Sep-2009Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter, the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer is pleased to announce the contract signature of 3 EC155 Dauphin helicopters with the Royal Thai Police (RTP) at Asian Aerospace in Hong Kong. These 3 new medium weight twin-engine helicopters will be delivered in 2011 and will be dedicated to VVIP missions.... Read more

China training more police officers as helicopter pilots

China training more police officers as helicopter pilots

8-Sep-2009Source: Xinhua

Thirteen public security officers have entered a training camp at the Tianjin-based Civil Aviation University of China to learn to fly helicopters.... Read more

Fairfax Helicopter Crew Wins National Award

Fairfax Helicopter Crew Wins National Award

4-Sep-2009Source: WUSA

The video from the Superbowl pursuit helped prosecute the two thieves and break up a construction theft ring. A catch that won the helicopter crew third place from the 2009 FLIR Vision Awards. FLIR is a company that makes infrared cameras.... Read more

Corona to sell Police Bell 407 after recession grounding in 2008

Corona to sell Police Bell 407 after recession grounding in 2008

4-Sep-2009Source: Press Enterprise

Corona 1, the Corona Police Department crime-fighting helicopter, has a price of $900,000 after City Council members voted unanimously to sell it at their council meeting Wednesday. The city had paid about $950,000 for it in 2002, according to a city staff report.... Read more

L-3 Wescam to exhibit new MX-10 EO/IR imaging turret at Helitech 2009

L-3 Wescam to exhibit new MX-10 EO/IR imaging turret at Helitech 2009

3-Sep-2009Source: L-3 Wescam

L-3 WESCAM announced that its MX-10 EO/IR turret will be on display at Chalet 10 at the Helitech tradeshow in Cambridge, U.K. In addition, L-3 will offer live demonstrations of the newly released turret.... Read more

Appeals court: Police helicopter that spotted pot not flying legal

Appeals court: Police helicopter that spotted pot not flying legal

2-Sep-2009Source: Dayton Daily News

Because the helicopter was in the airspace without permission from air traffic control, the search of the property during which marijuana was found inside and outside the house was warrantless and forbidden by the Fourth Amendment... Read more

Helicopter issues, park ordinances on Tuesday board agenda in Lake County, California

Helicopter issues, park ordinances on Tuesday board agenda in Lake County, California

1-Sep-2009Source: Lake County News

A continuing discussion on the sheriff’s use of helicopters under a federal grant and new proposed ordinances for county parks will be on the Tuesday Board of Supervisors agenda.... Read more

Police Service of Northern Ireland hire in second helicopter

Police Service of Northern Ireland hire in second helicopter

1-Sep-2009Source: Belfast Telegraph

The PSNI has hired a second helicopter to help in the fight against dissident republicans who set up an illegal checkpoint in south Armagh last weekend.... Read more

Police Aviation News – September 2009 edition

Police Aviation News – September 2009 edition

1-Sep-2009Source: Police Aviation News

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Korea National Police Agency Order An AW119Ke

Korea National Police Agency Order An AW119Ke

28-Aug-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland and UI International (UII) are pleased to announce they have been awarded a contract by the Korean Public Procurement Services to supply the Korea National Police Agency (KNPA) with one AW119Ke law enforcement helicopter as part of an on-going programme to modernise the Police helicopter fleet... Read more

McLennan County leaders to decide fate of Sheriff's helicopter

McLennan County leaders to decide fate of Sheriff's helicopter

28-Aug-2009Source: Houston Chronicle

A dispute about whether spend $85,000 overhauling the engine of a law enforcement helicopter that McLennan County got for free could leave the chopper grounded... Read more

Omaha Police Dept helicopter unit reprieved to end of year at least

Omaha Police Dept helicopter unit reprieved to end of year at least

28-Aug-2009Source: Omaha World-Herald

Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle decided Thursday against grounding the city’s police helicopters, instead signing off on cuts elsewhere in the Police Department’s budget.... Read more

6 month suspended sentence for woman who shone laser pen at Surrey Police helicopter

6 month suspended sentence for woman who shone laser pen at Surrey Police helicopter

27-Aug-2009Source: Get Surrey

A WOMAN who shone a laser pen into the cockpit of the Surrey Police helicopter as it flew 1,000ft in the air above Staines has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence. The court heard that the police helicopter was responding to a call-out in the Staines area just before midnight on August 10 when... Read more

FLIR opens calibration service for infrared cameras in Melbourne

FLIR opens calibration service for infrared cameras in Melbourne

24-Aug-2009Source: Factory Maintenance

FLIR says owners of its infrared cameras can have their cameras re-calibrated annually at the new FLIR Systems service laboratory in Melbourne.... Read more

Princess Anne helicopter donated to Montgomery County

Princess Anne helicopter donated to Montgomery County

20-Aug-2009Source: DelMarva Now

The Montgomery County Police Department is just starting up its new division, and expects to have the helicopter reconditioned and flying by the end of the year... Read more

Aero Dynamix Completes NVG Lighting Modifications for Lake County Sheriff

Aero Dynamix Completes NVG Lighting Modifications for Lake County Sheriff

20-Aug-2009Source: Vertical

Aero Dynamix, Inc. (ADI) is pleased to announce that it has just completed the Night Vision Lighting modification for the Lake County Sheriff’s Aviation Unit. This completion was performed at American Eurocopter (AEC) in Grand Prairie, TX.... Read more

American Eurocopter Delivers EC120 to Lake County Sheriff's Aviation Unit

American Eurocopter Delivers EC120 to Lake County Sheriff's Aviation Unit

18-Aug-2009Source: American Eurocopter

The Lake County Sheriff Department’s Aviation Unit was started in 1979 and it is responsible for airborne law enforcement support missions throughout Lake County, Indiana, and surrounding areas. Since the start, the unit has utilized a variety of aircraft including military surplus models.... Read more

Royal Cayman Islands Police Service to finally receive EC135 in September

Royal Cayman Islands Police Service to finally receive EC135 in September

15-Aug-2009Source: Cayman Net News

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) will be receiving a much-needed boost in the form of its long-awaited helicopter. The twin-engine Eurocopter model EC135-T1 police helicopter is scheduled to arrive on the Islands next month and will serve to bolster the work of the RCIPS.... Read more

Helicopters becoming easy way to smuggle drugs

Helicopters becoming easy way to smuggle drugs

14-Aug-2009Source: KVAL

Colin Martin was on bail, appealing his sentence for leading a U.S.-Canada drug conspiracy involving aircraft. But he was still able to obtain three helicopters, two of which ended up being flown by drug smugglers.... Read more

Topeka Police Chief Makes Case for Reinstating Helicopter Unit

Topeka Police Chief Makes Case for Reinstating Helicopter Unit

14-Aug-2009Source: WIBW

Topeka Police Chief Ron Miller spent hours Monday with media and community leaders talking about Topeka’s need for a helicopter unit. He met with members of the media for nearly three hours where he discussed all aspects of the unit.... Read more

Profile: Durham Regional Police Service "Air 1" unit

Profile: Durham Regional Police Service "Air 1" unit

13-Aug-2009Source: News Durham Region

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Lawsuit by LAPD helicopter pilot goes to jury

Lawsuit by LAPD helicopter pilot goes to jury

11-Aug-2009Source: LA Daily News

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Maryland State Police unit awarded 'rescue of the year' for lifesaving mission with the AS365 Dauphin

Maryland State Police unit awarded 'rescue of the year' for lifesaving mission with the AS365 Dauphin

7-Aug-2009Source: American Eurocopter

A Maryland State Police Aviation Command crew has been honored for a daring December 2008 rescue which utilized American Eurocopter’s Dauphin AS365 when a broken water main left several vehicles trapped in three-to-four feet of swiftly-flowing water.... Read more

Police Aviation News – August 2009 edition

Police Aviation News – August 2009 edition

1-Aug-2009Source: Police Aviation News

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Cayman Islands Police EC135 controversy rumbles on

Cayman Islands Police EC135 controversy rumbles on

31-Jul-2009Source: Cay Compass

Governor Stuart Jack asked the Auditor General Dan Duguay in September to undertake an investigation into the purchase of the helicopter. Mr. Duguay found that there was no clear documentation of what the required operational capabilities of the helicopter should be, and limited communication between the police and the Civil Aviation Authority about the helicopter.... Read more

Trinidad and Tobago Orders Four AW139 Helicopters

Trinidad and Tobago Orders Four AW139 Helicopters

31-Jul-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the government of Trinidad and Tobago has signed a contract to purchase four AW139 medium twin turbine helicopters. Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Guard (TTAG) will establish a dedicated unit to use these helicopters for search and rescue, surface surveillance, law enforcement, drug interdiction and disaster relief... Read more

Profile: San Diego Police Dept ABLE unit

Profile: San Diego Police Dept ABLE unit

22-Jul-2009Source: Vertical

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Suffolk Police take delivery of new EC135P2+

Suffolk Police take delivery of new EC135P2+

22-Jul-2009Source: http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/Suffolk-Police39s-new-39eye-in.5479298.jp

The force took delivery of a new state-of-the-art £4.6 million helicopter on Monday which will help tackle crime and help in the hunt for missing people.  “The helicopter plays a crucial role in helping to make Suffolk an even safer place to live, work and visit,” said Chief Constable Simon Ash.... Read more

First two new Dutch Police helicopters landed at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport today

First two new Dutch Police helicopters landed at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport today

21-Jul-2009Source: Haarlems Dagblad

  The first two new EC135s from a total order for eight landed at Schiphol-Oost this afternoon.... Read more

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