Police helicopter

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A Eurocopter EC 135 of the German Federal Police

Police helicopters are helicopters of Police , as management and operational resources are used. You offer u. a. high speed and independence from the condition of the terrain. They can also be used to quickly search large areas for people, objects or vehicles.

Mission profiles

Police helicopters are mainly used in police operations . This includes, among other things

  • Localization of volatile or missing persons or escape vehicles (mobile situations),
  • Recording of the traffic situation in road traffic, especially on extremely busy motorways during the main travel season,
  • Supply of evidence through photography and videography ,
  • Recording of the spread of certain substances or events in environmental and nature conservation (e.g. water pollution, forest fires),
  • Detection of event locations such as an aircraft crash site,
  • Rescue of casualties in the mountains or in rough terrain,
  • Transport of people such as B.
    • injured , seriously ill or people to be brought to safety,
    • Special forces , e.g. B. SEK groups,
    • high-ranking politicians or officials,
  • Clarification of major police situations such as high-risk demonstrations or state visits.

It is also possible to participate in fire fighting by means of external fire- fighting water containers , often with the support of so-called flight assistants .

Organization (Germany)

Eurocopter EC-145 in use for the Hessian state police

The German police forces have various police helicopter squadrons. The state police have with the exception of Bremen , the Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein each have a police helicopter squadron. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the helicopter squadron of the state police - two Eurocopter EC 135 - is part of the water police . In North Rhine-Westphalia the name is Police Air Force Squadron, as two fixed-wing aircraft are also used here.

The Federal Police has the largest police fleet in Germany . The North Rhine-Westphalia police squadron has the largest fleet of a state police force with seven helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft. The Bavarian Police Helicopter Squadron has the largest fleet of helicopters in the state police with eight machines.

The Federal Police has the Federal Police Fliegergruppe headquartered in Sankt Augustin and is the superior department for the Federal Police's flight service. It reports on four federal police squadrons based in Fuhlendorf , Blumberg , Fuldatal , Oberschleißheim , the aviation company (formerly: Bundespolizei-Fliegerstaffel Sankt Augustin) as well as the maintenance company based in Sankt Augustin (formerly: Central Maintenance Squadron ZIST ) and the aviation school for the police in Bonn - Hangelar .

When flying according to visual flight rules (VFR), the helicopter crew usually consists of a pilot and a flight technician - in the past: flight attendant, for flight according to instrument flight rules (IFR) always two pilots and, if necessary, an additional flight technician or a so-called operator who operates the thermal imaging camera served.

List of the helicopter squadrons of the federal and state police forces

The federal police and the federal states maintain the following helicopter squadrons (as of March 2012 with later additions):

police Callsign deployment fleet
Coat of arms Federal Republic  Federal Police oriole Saint Augustine Aviation School for the Police Service (LFSfPD)
Maintenance organization
Aviation company Sankt Augustin 1
Fuhlendorf Federal Police Fliegerstaffel Fuhlendorf
Ahrensfelde- Blumberg Federal Police Fliegerstaffel Blumberg
Fulda valley Federal Police Fliegerstaffel Fuldatal
Oberschleissheim Federal Police Fliegerstaffel Oberschleißheim
Coat of arms of Baden-Wuerttemberg  Baden-Württemberg buzzard  Stuttgart , Söllingen  6 H145
Coat of arms Bavaria  Bavaria Edelweiss  Munich 3 , Roth 4  8 EC 135 P3 (2015)
Berlin coat of arms  Berlin Oriole Berlin 5  Ahrensfelde-Blumberg  1 EC 135 T2
Brandenburg coat of arms  Brandenburg Adebar  Ahrensfelde-Blumberg  2 EC 135 P2 +
Hamburg coat of arms  Hamburg dragon-fly  Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel  2 EC 135 P2
Hesse coat of arms  Hesse Ibis  Egelsbach  3 EC 145
Coat of arms Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania  Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Merlin  Rostock-Laage  2 EC 135 P1
Lower Saxony coat of arms  Lower Saxony Phoenix  Hanover , Rastede  2 MD 902 ,
 2 EC 135 P2 +
Coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia  North Rhine-Westphalia bumblebee  Düsseldorf , Dortmund 6 H145
Coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate  Rhineland-Palatinate Sparrowhawk  Koblenz-Winningen  2 EC 135 P2 +
Coat of arms of Saxony  Saxony Passat  Dresden  3 EC 135 T2 / T2e
Coat of arms of Saxony-Anhalt  Saxony-Anhalt Icarus  Magdeburg  2 BK 117 B-1 / B-2,
 1 H145
Coat of arms of Thuringia  Thuringia hawk  Erfurt  2 EC 145
1The Federal Police use the helicopter types EC 120 Colibri (exclusively as a training helicopter ), EC 135 T2 +, EC 155 B and AS 332 L1 Super Puma . The entire fleet includes 87 helicopters.
3 currently Munich Airport, possibly moving to Oberschleißheim
4th Otto-Lilienthal-Kaserne Roth
5Operated jointly by the Berlin police and the federal police

Incidents

  • November 2007: Emergency landing of an MD 900 (registration D-HPNB , call sign Phoenix 92 ) of the Lower Saxony police at Hannover-Langenhagen airport on the return flight from an operation. The cause of the accident with three slightly injured people was a technical defect in the NOTAR system. The machine was totaled.
  • January 2010: Crash of an MD 902 (registration D-HPND , callsign Phoenix 94 ) of the Lower Saxony police on a snow-covered field near Elze (Wedemark) during a training flight. The cause of the accident with three slightly injured people was a pilot error, presumably due to “diffuse lighting conditions” ( whiteout ). The machine was totaled.
  • March 2013: Aircraft accident at the Berlin Olympic Stadium
  • February 2016: Crash of an EC 135 T2 + (registration D-HVBB ) of the Federal Police in Bimöhlen , near the Federal Police Heliport Fuhlendorf, during a night vision training flight. In the accident, the pilot and the system operator were fatally and the copilot was seriously injured, and the machine was totaled. The investigation report of the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation cites a "loss of control" by the pilot in charge of the aircraft as the cause.

equipment

Thermal imaging device
Searchlight

Police equipment includes a .:

Austria

The Ministry of the Interior operates the flight service of the Austrian executive at 8 flight operations. In addition to police tasks (searches, operations with the EKO Cobra, security operations at major events, ...), the helicopters are also available for rescuing uninjured persons, relief operations in the context of fire-fighting and exploratory flights for other agencies in the federal states (avalanche warning service, geological investigations after rock falls, ...) .

gallery

Web links

Commons : Police Helicopter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Police helicopter  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schwarz: Flying patrol cars - police helicopter squadrons in Germany . FlugRevue 2/2012, p. 34 ff.
  2. ↑ a b Bundespolizei-Fliegergruppe ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Bundespolizei.de, accessed on January 21, 2012)
  3. ↑ Police helicopter. Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
  4. ^ ZPD: New police helicopters for the Lower Saxony police on the approach. In: presseportal.de. August 20, 2015, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ U. Heeren: H145T2 New police helicopter for NRW - H145T2. In: www.polizeifliegerstaffel.de. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Fliegerstaffel: New helicopter fleet for the NRW police. In: RP Online. September 7, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ New police helicopter for Saxony-Anhalt
  8. ↑ Helicopter type currently operated by the Federal Police Air Service ( Memento from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Bundespolizei.de, accessed on January 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ Modernization of the Federal Police's helicopter fleet completed ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Bundespolizei.de, accessed on June 29, 2012.
  10. ↑ Handover of the “Pirol Berlin” police helicopter . bz-berlin.de, May 6, 2004, accessed January 10, 2013.
  11. ↑ Investigation report 3X182-0 / 07 , Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, accessed on December 15, 2017 (PDF, German, 262 kB).
  12. ↑ Investigation report 3X002-10 , Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, accessed on December 15, 2017 (PDF, German, 482 kB).
  13. ↑ investigation report BFU16-0185-3X , Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, accessed on 28 December 2018 (PDF, German, 1.4 MB).