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Law enforcement from the air.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Century of flight ;v13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--History.
- Aeronautics.
- Law enforcement--History.
- Law enforcement.
- Airplanes--History.
- Airplanes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 mins.).
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide ; [Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], c2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Helicopter monitoring of a high speed car chase. How police monitor traffic and deter crime, including tracking down criminals. Use of Nitesun and other night vision aids. In criminal hands - light aircraft used from smuggling and how law enforcement agencies combat this and maritime smuggling. Use of helicopters to spring prisoners from high security jails (1973 rescue of IRA prisoners from Dublin jail and other cases). The drugs war - how aircraft, civil and military, are used to combat the drugs traffic from Central America.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 17, 2012).
- "The epic story of human triumph in the sky"--Original container.
- Previously published as DVD.
- OCLC:
- 689524542
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