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Armed Offenders Police Drop in on Airfield
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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