Police Helicopter

A surprise visitor to our part of York earlier this afternoon was this police helicopter. I haven't discovered the reason for it's presence, but it was obviously carrying out some kind of search. It would hover for a short time, before moving position and hovering again. According to the Flightaware website, shortly after I took this shot, it left York heading south to it's base at Robin Hood airport near Doncaster.

For the record, it's a Eurocopter EC 135P2+ registered G-POLA.

Ian

[xbm]

We get a few police helicopters here too. We are not too far from RAF Lakenheath, so get the occasional AWACS and jet.

[Peter Dulis]

nice catch

[carol white]

Great capture.We often see one hovering nearby.

[Margaret Brown]

Super capture, we hear it regularly around here, we know there is a search or chase on when we hear it!

[Monica]

Interesting!

[Renee Salamon]

Oooh, right place, right time

[Pyrrhula]

Beautiful pov and close up capture. Those ae very noisy. Fav,

[gloria jones]

Great capture...

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Kathy A]

Great capture of the moving blades

[Fisher Family]

@g3xbm @pdulis @carolmw @craftymeg @monicac @rensala @pyrrhula @seattlite @bkbinthecity @kjarn

Thank you all for your lovely comments and fav, they are very much appreciated.

I haven't discovered the reason for this flight yet, nothing in the media this morning about a police chase or a missing person search, so it looks like it could remain a mystery.

Ian

[Bri]

Nice catch

[Fisher Family]

@bybri

Thank you Bri. It is quite fascinating to watch how the police carry out their searches.

Ian