Heliport
5th Sep 2007, 22:36
From the Northants Evening Telegraph
New £4.3m helicopter takes to skies
A new £4.3m police helicopter is taking to the skies to help in the fight against crime in the county.
The aircraft is equipped with cutting-edge tracking technology and the latest digital recording equipment. It replaces the county force’s old helicopter which was sold to police in the Cayman Islands at the end of July.
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READY FOR ACTION – pilots Di Craig, Andy Stretton and Paul Atherton
The new helicopter is paid for by police in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
Chief Supt John Millar, head of Northamptonshire police’s operations department, said: “A police helicopter is a piece of equipment you just can’t do without in the modern force and it gives us a vital extra dimension in the search for missing persons and criminals.
“The old one was sold because it had come to the end of its service life. Hopefully the new one will take us forward for the next 20 years.”
Its crime-fighting armoury includes thermal imaging equipment, a powerful searchlight, public address system and camera equipment capable of beaming real-time images to command headquarters.
New £4.3m helicopter takes to skies
A new £4.3m police helicopter is taking to the skies to help in the fight against crime in the county.
The aircraft is equipped with cutting-edge tracking technology and the latest digital recording equipment. It replaces the county force’s old helicopter which was sold to police in the Cayman Islands at the end of July.
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READY FOR ACTION – pilots Di Craig, Andy Stretton and Paul Atherton
The new helicopter is paid for by police in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
Chief Supt John Millar, head of Northamptonshire police’s operations department, said: “A police helicopter is a piece of equipment you just can’t do without in the modern force and it gives us a vital extra dimension in the search for missing persons and criminals.
“The old one was sold because it had come to the end of its service life. Hopefully the new one will take us forward for the next 20 years.”
Its crime-fighting armoury includes thermal imaging equipment, a powerful searchlight, public address system and camera equipment capable of beaming real-time images to command headquarters.