UK Police are ANO
TC, whilst I fully agree that Police Observers are passengers, the aircraft are not operated under EASA but ANO, hence all the problems last year with changing airwortiness certificates when using relief aircraft. Therefore it would be up to the CAA to decide if winching was a go/no go, particularly as it is already addressed in the PAOM Part One (Sect5, Chap 6, para 2). I believe that all the Met 145's are fitted for winch but they only have purchased one winch to fit as required.