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It is home to the Los Angeles Police Department's Air Support Division which is the largest metropolitan police aviation unit in the U.S. with 16 helicopters. The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for the LAPD motor pool including marked and unmarked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.
Swedish police with a Bell 429 A Eurocopter AS365 N3 Dauphin 2 of the Victoria Police Air Wing.. Police aviation is the use of aircraft in police operations. Police services commonly use aircraft for traffic control, ground support, search and rescue, high-speed car pursuits, observation, air patrol and control of large-scale public events and/or public order incidents.
The New York City Police Department Aviation Unit is a division of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) focused on airborne law enforcement and public safety. Operating under command of the NYPD Special Operations Bureau, the unit frequently works alongside partner agencies like the NYPD Harbor Unit and United States Coast Guard (USCG) to service New York City and its surrounding waters.
In 1968, the unit received its first turbine-powered helicopter, the Bell 206A JetRanger, which significantly decreased police response times. With a major expansion in 1974, the Helicopter Unit was renamed the Air Support Division. At that time, the ASD grew to fifteen helicopters and one Cessna 210 crewed by 77 sworn personnel. In 1976, the ...
A Las Vegas Metro police helicopter had to make an unusual stop on a college campus in Henderson Tuesday night. The helicopter made the landing in the parking lot of the CSN Henderson campus in ...
A Metro Nashville police helicopter spotted Tyrone Walker, 30, in the Edgehill homes area Monday night, and detectives from the department's TITANS (The Investigative Team Addressing Neighborhood ...
A police helicopter sitting on its pad. The Helicopter Division was initially formed in 1972 with the donation of an Enstrom F-28 helicopter by a local businessman. It suspended operation in 1975. In 1983, the Division was reformed as a full-time operation with two Bell 206 Jet Rangers. Formerly based out of Dulles Airport, it is now based out ...
The video has nearly 1.8 million views. A view over flood-damaged western North Carolina on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, as Andy Petree flies a helicopter through Operation Airdrop to deliver supplies.