Hull Daily Mail from Hull, Humberside, England • 10

10 NEWS HULL UA I MAIL TUESDAY MAY 26 1998 Humberside Police reach lor the sky as long arm of Financial Report Pfuiular Shares Abbey Nat 1090 Alliance 41 808 XD Anglian 860 BP 913 XD BT 647 BG 345 XD Brit Aero 51314 Brit Airwys 647 Brit Steel 160 British Energy 565 Centrica 100 Eurotnl 65 Halifax 842 XD Hyder 964 MA 582 Nat Grid 369 XLi Nat Power 560 Norwich Union 448 XD Powergen 764 Railtrack 1229 Sainsbury 497 XD Scot Hydro 573 Scot Power 540 Severn 960 Southern 535 SthWest 943 Tesco 559 XD Thames 967 Thomson Travel 193 United Utils 827 Viridian 576 Wessex 462 Woolwich 355 XD Yorks Water 468 Local Shares HE shiny dark blue and yellow police helicopter was dwarfed by the Sea King which was standing on the nearby tarmac It may appear small on the outside but appearances are deceptive and it has more space inside than I imagined Inside there is room for the pilot a flight officer and communications officer who appears to have the hardest job of all Each headset is linked into eight different channels with the pilot having an extra one air traffic control at Humberside Airport Messages have to be deciphered quickly There is also room in the back of the aircraft to take casualties from road accidents to hospital On board there are ordinance survey maps of East Yorkshire which are also computerised and a thermal image camera While a lot of incidents the helicopter is called out on are crime-related it has also been involved in large area searches taking casualties from road accidents to hospital and taking aerial photographs for scenes of crime officers and the coroner allf The head of the Helicopter Support Unit based at Normandy Barracks in Leconfield is Inspector Norman Wool-Ions who is also a qualified pilot think of a better he told me can get so much job satisfaction here At the helicopter support unit there is so much more involved than people realise and it is not just about flying around in the helicopter but there are things on the ground which also need taking care of measure our successes in the number of people we have arrested We can search a large area which would take officers days This lets officers on the ground be deployed to other jobs helicopter also acts as a deterrent because when we are up in the air no-one on the ground really knows where we are he said Contrary to popular belief the helicopter does not take to the air just for training flights or for a fly around to see what it happening The majority of training is done over the airfield at Lecon- Italy 2758 lira Japan 21749 yen Malta 061 lira New Zealand 291 dollars Norway 1186 kroner Portugal 283 escudo South Africa 797 rands Spain 23644 pesetas Sweden 1222 kroner Switzerland 233 francs Turkey 399488 lira USA 159 dollars (Figures by Thomas Cook) Australia 249 dollars Austria 1959 schillings Belgium 5756 francs Canada 23 dollars Cyprus 081 pounds Denmark 1069 kroner Finland 853 marks France 934 francs Germany 279 marks Greece 479 drachma Holland 314 guilders Hong Kong 1225 dollars Ireland 11 punts 1 ON REFLECTION: Capt Dennis Anderson ready for take-off Shipping VITAL STATISTICS 10000 A5 LEAFLETS Printed Distributed Designed FOR ONLY ARRIVALS King George Dock Pia Theresa (Aarhus) veg oil Redthorn (Dublin) blst Fmnbirch (Helsinki) gen Helgafell (Iceland via Faroes) containers Geest Atlas (Rotterdam) containers Bremer Zukunft (Gdynia via Felixstowe) containers Norsea (Rotterdam) gen pass Norbay (Rotterdam) gen Norstar (Zeebrugge) gen pass Alexandra Dock Baltiyskiy 108 (Riga) timber STK 1028 (Thames) blst Smaland (Italy) marble chippings Scorpio (Tonnay Charent) maize Andrina (Tallinn) timber Helse (Kalmar) timber Saltend Dutch Progress (Gonfreville) orthoxylene Trans Tind (Rotterdam) blst Northgate (Grangemouth) ldf DEPARTURES King George Dock Sofia (Riga via Copenhagen) containers Jonrix (Klaipeda) containers Norland (Zeebrugge) gen pass Norsun (Rotterdam) gen pass: Norbank (Rotterdam) gen Pia Theresa (Rotterdam) blst Alexandra Dock Charlotte Theresa (Rotterdam) veg oil Saltend Sunniva (Immingham) rob Dutch Pilot (Tees) blst Trans Tind (Skoghall) chemicals SHIPS IN DOCK King George Dock 5 Quay Norstar dis load gen pass 5 Quay Norsea dis load gen pass River Terminal Norbay dis load gen 1 Shed Redthorn load grain 7 Shed Veysal Verdal lay by 9 Shed Sommen dis timber 15 Shed Finnbirch dis gen 9 Quay Helgafell dis load containers 9 Quay Geest Atlas dis load containers 9 Quay Bremer Zukunft dis load containers Alexandra Dock 1 Euroterminal Scorpio dis maize 3 Euroterminal STK 1028 load malt 6 Shed Ivan Shchepetov dis timber Jetty Helse dis timber East of 2 Shed Baltiyskiy 108 dis timber 1 Shed Andrina dis timber 2 Shed Smaland dis timber East Quay Headsail dis veg oil Saltend 3 Jetty Northgate dis ldf load na naptha £249 I The Humberside Air Support Unit costs £500000 a year to run which includes the upkeep of the helicopter through to the officers wages I it flies 800 hours a year and on average 75 times a month I The average length of each flight is 32 minutes I In each individual flight the helicopter attends an average of three incidents I Between January and April this year the helicopter attended 740 incidents I The unit has carried out 683 open area searches and searched 1098 square kilometres VAT DSTRBlrOM Telephone: 610816 bringing people HP "A.