Training
RAF Police are now trained at the Defence College of Policing and Guarding, at MOD Southwick Park, along with the Royal Navy Police and Royal Military Police.
Training in the 1950s was at RAF Netheravon in Wiltshire, and in the 1960s at RAF Debden near Saffron Walden. Until the mid-1990s, trade training took place at RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire, training then moved to RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire until the consolidation of all MoD policing training at Southwick Park in 2004.
Basic RAF Police training includes:
- Police exams/assessments
- Driving (on and off road)
- Weapons Training (Browning Hi-Power 9mm)
- Lines of Communication Police training
- Air Transport Security
- Baton and Handcuff Training
- Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare
Personnel are also required to maintain good physical fitness and this is tested every six months.
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