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A police helicopter is a helicopter used in police operations. They are commonly used for traffic control, ground support, search and rescue, high-speed car pursuits, observation, air patrol and riot control. In major cities where they are often called 'Ghetto Birds' by inner city youth, police helicopters are also used as air transportation for SWAT personnel. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 159 KB) Summary Photo taken (28th July 2002) and supplied by Nachoman-au. ...
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The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ...
Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
Members of the 60th Security Police Squadrons Base Swat Team, Travis Air Force Base, wearing black uniforms stand with M9 pistols ready behind concealing foliage. ...
Police helicopters are normally equipped with variants such as night vision, FLIR, infrared, surveillance cameras, radar, special radio systems and engines, loudspeaker systems, tear gas dispensers, searchlights, winches and winch cables, flashing light beacons, police rescue equipment and special seating. Weapons are usually not attached to the aircraft. Night-vision is seeing in the dark. ...
A forward looking infrared (FLIR) system is a television camera that takes pictures in infrared. ...
A riot control agent is a type of lachrymatory agent (or lacrimatory agent). ...
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Police forces sometimes use military surplus helicopters, such as the Bell UH-1 Huey, but most buy their helicopters from major aircraft companies. The Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1 Iroquois, commonly (or officially in the United States Marine Corps) known as the Huey, is a multipurpose military helicopter, famous for its use in the Vietnam War. ...
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The Belgian Aviation Support Group is part of the country's Federal Police. It offers specialised support to the police such as event control (traffic jams, plane crashes, crowds, sporting events, etc). The group’s five helicopters and two planes also search for missing people, suspects, clandestine laboratories, etc. The protection of VIPs and the transport of funds is also part of the mission.
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