Originally Posted by
Mr_G_Box
I don't think that was ever the case.
Don’t know about that one but I was at Topcliffe with the AAC from 84 to 86 and did at least one trip to see if it was feasible to be used as a platform for the police, we had been asked to help out with cover overhead the A1 and A64 when Sgt John Speed had been shot in Leeds in 84 but bureaucracy wouldn’t allow us to help on that occasion. After that it was sanctioned to see if something could be done, but the challenge at the time was we couldn’t run the police radio through the aircraft and it was a nightmare. We had a police cameraman in the back when one of our Gazelles ploughed in at Catterick so I don’t think much came of it after that.