TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1988
ACTING GOVERNOR VISITS PTU
THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, VISITED THE POLICE
TACTICAL UNIT AT FANLING TODAY (TUESDAY).
SIR DAVID WAS BRIEFED ON THE WORK OF THE UNIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE PREPARATIONS BEING MADE TO PROVIDE TRAINING FACILITIES FOR THE POLICE FORCE TO TAKE OVER BORDER DUTIES IN 1993.
OVERFLYING BY HELICOPTER THE SITE OF THE NEW PTI BASE. SIR DAVID NOTED THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE OLD VOLUNTEER SLOPES CAMP WHERE GROUND LEVELLING AND THE ACQUISITION OF ADDITIONAL ADJACENT LAND HAS DOUBLED THE USABLE AREA TO SEVEN HECTARES.
ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, MR VINCE CHAPMAN EXPLAINED THAT SITE FORMATION WORK HAD TAKEN UP MUCH OF THE TIME WHICH HAD LAPSED SINCE PTU VACATED THE BASE IN MAY 1986, BUT BUILDING WAS NOW MOVING AHEAD QUICKLY.
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MR CHAPMAN STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT REMAINING SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETION BY FEBRUARY 1990 IN ORDER TO TIE IN WITH THE PROGRAMME FOR COMMENCING TRAINING FOR THE POLICE TACTICAL UNIT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DETACHMENT.
THE FORCE IS PLANNING TO ESTABLISH THIS DETACHMENT IN A PHASED PROGRAMME DURING THE EARLY 1990s. IT IS INTENDED THAT THERE WILL BE FIVE OR SIX 170-MAN COMPANIES, DEPENDING ON OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, ASSIGNED TO ANTI-II DUTIES. THESE WILL BE BACKED UP BY ABOUT 150 HEADQUARTERS AND SUPPORT STAFF.
AS THESE EXTRA COMPANIES ARE FORMED, RESUME RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE ARMY FOR ALL
THRY WILL PROGRESSIVELY ANTI-II OPERATIONS.
AND
THE NEW COMPANIES WILL BE FORMED BY INCREASING THE NUMBERS LENGTHENING THE TIME FOR WHICH POLICEMEN ARE ATTACHED ΤΟ THE PTU. ULTIMATELY, THE PTU ATTACHMENT CYCLE WILL COVER 52 WEEKS, MADE UP OF 12 WEEKS ON INTERNAL SECURITY TRAINING, 4 WEEKS ON ANTI-II TRAINING, 12 WEEKS ON BORDER PATROLS, 4 WERKS IN RESERVE AND 20 WEEKS ON ATTACHMENT TO A REGION.
ONCE THE NEW BASE IS OPENED THERE WILL BE THREE PTU UNDER TRAINING AT ANY ONE TIME.
SIR DAVID'S TWO-HOUR PROGRAMME WITH THE PTU ALSO BRIEFINGS BY THE ACTING COMMANDANT, MR PETER BURBRIDGE KING, OFFICER COMMANDING THE SPECIAL DUTIES UNIT, MR STEVE ROBINS.
COMPANIES
INCLUDED AND THE
HE WAS ALSO SHOWN ONE OF THE NEW SAXON ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS AND SAW A DEMONSTRATION IN INTERNAL SECURITY DRILLS BY MEN NO. 2 PLATOON, GOLF COMPANY, UNDER THE OVERALL COMMAND OF MR MARTYN RERS, COMPANY COMMANDER.
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BEFORE LEAVING SIR DAVID INFORMALLY MET PTU STAFF AND OFFICERS UNDER TRAINING.
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