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The state-of-the-art equipment suite installed in these helicopters is robust and complex. The Bell 407 is equipped with a Star Safire 380 FLIR camera (valued at $ 1.7 million) that not only allows the crew to obtain daytime or infrared images, but also can perform face and license plate recognition from the air; A Trakkabeam A800 searchlight that police have nicknamed “God’s Eye;” a two-way data link that connects the helicopter with the city’s automatic dispatch center in real time so they can stream live video; and a complete suite of radios. “Success was not to buy a single piece of equipment, but to buy hardware that worked together under a single integration,” Romero explains.


This police unit operates with a team of 25 pilots and 25 technicians that rotates periodically in the different units throughout the country. Each city also has six equipment operators who coordinate the work of the helicopters with the police patrols on land. These operators, known as “tacticals,” usually are selected from each city’s command and control center because of their experience with surveillance cameras and communications.


When the pilots arrive at each city, they must study all the characteristics of the flight operations in that area of country: procedures manuals, flight limits and altitudes, communications frequencies, and hazards such as communications towers and electricity lines. The pilots also must know the critical crime areas.


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