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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