Armed Offenders Police Drop in on Airfield

Trainees from the elite police Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) have descended from the sky onto Paraparaumu Airfield,alarming some locals in a noisy exercise with an Iroquois helicopter.

But it was all part of a realistic exercise,teaching the AOS recruits how to abseil into inaccessible territory to deal with someone using a firearm or dangerous weapon.

The training is realistic and the trainees are fully equipped, but their guns are deactivated for the duration of the exercise….

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