'Our Helicopters Don’t Run Commercial Or Chartered Shuttle Services' - Police
The Force’s Police Air-wing did not carry out any chartered shuttle for a paltry $30,000.00 and is not aware of the cost of charter for which commercial operators charge $105,000.00 The Nigeria Police said it's attention has been drawn to a story in The Nation Newspaper of today, Sunday, 4 th November, 2018 captioned “Illegal Helicopter Charter Flights Spark Row in Aviation Sector” credited to one Kelvin Osa Okunbor. In a press release by the Force Public Relations Officer, Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood, he said that t he Force wishes to categorically state that the helicopters on the fleet of the Nigeria Police Force Air-wing don’t run commercial or chattered shuttle services as claimed by the writer of the story. Police helicopters are deployed on regular basis for operational purposes and to aid other security and safety agencies in their operations and other activities in line with inter-agency cooperation and collaboration. There was no time the Po...