PLANES AID POLICE
LOCATING AN ESCAPEE PATTERN FOR FUTURE? (10 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. The quick success achieved by R.A.F. planes in helping the Yorkshire police to arrest an escaped prisoner has at last convinced the Home Office that the demand of the police chiefs throughout the country for the formation of a police air arm must be met. Dropping Verey lights, the planes guided the police to the exact spot near the wood where the man was hiding. Many police forces already have arrangements with civil and R.A.F. airfields for the use of a plane for special jobs, but this borrowed aid is considered totally inadequate. It is not expected that the police air arm will be one national body. Each police force is more likely to have its own air squad.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 7
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