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Description: Victoria Police Air Wing – Aircrew Qualification Brevet
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Condition: Very Good
Comments: Victoria Police Air Wing – Aircrew Brevet.
The Victoria Police Air Wing is the police aviation support unit of the Victoria Police.
The Air Wing undertake a wide variety of roles including:
- Crime prevention and detection through regular patrols,
- Traffic surveillance of major traffic thoroughfares,
- Air-to-ground direction, guiding police on the ground to their targets,
- Search and Rescue for missing people at sea and in remote places,
- Fire duties utilising a fire bucket as an aerial fire bomber, and providing the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) with aerial observation support,
- 24 Hour Air Ambulance service,
- Photographic tasks providing aerial photography for crime, traffic, planning and routine operations, as well as covert surveillance, observation and photography of criminal activities.