Joint training of police units at Liptovská Mara Reservoir
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The Liptovská Mara Reservoir is hosting a practical training with instructional and methodological issues for rope and parachute training instructors the first week of August. Lt Col Marián Pogány, of the Police Corps Presidium, explained that the training has brought together representatives of all stand-by units of the SVK Police Corps, firefighters, and members of the Police Special Intervention Units, the Mountain Rescue Service, the Police River Section and the SVK Military Police.
Lt Col Marián Pogány, of the SVK Police Corps Presidium, said: “We are pleased that we can develop cooperation with all police elements across Slovakia in this way too. As we are in the same boat, we must know how to cooperate better on domestic crisis management operations and exchange our experience. Military policemen have a lot of experience, for example, from their deployment to Op SOPHIA in the Mediterranean Sea.”
Cpt Martin Urban, of the SVK Military Police, sees this cooperation as very beneficial. Among others, he believes that individual police elements should not repeat the same mistakes their colleagues have made in the past but should take the lessons learned forward to future training. The practical phase, which took place in an area close to and above the reservoir, was designed, inter alia, for working at heights and above the water level. The teams were often mixed and were made up of MP and Interior Ministry personnel. Tasks included working at heights while hanging down from the helicopter, extracting soldiers with their harness clipped to a single rope, rescuing and carrying injured persons hanging on the rope beneath the helicopter, and conducting rescue operations over the water in cooperation with rescue boats. A Bell 429 helicopter and an Mi-171 helicopter used in the rehearsals were provided by the Ministry of Interior.
According to Cpt Urban, they have used different ropes for rappelling from helicopters. Thick rope is used for greater heights, while thin rope for lower heights. When rappelling from greater heights, policemen also have a thin rope (approx. 30 metres in length) with them. Another method of rappelling is the rope anchored to the helicopter, this rope can be 50-80 metres in length and this type of rappelling is generally slower than the previous one. The fastest way of rappelling is the fast rope. Literally, it takes only a few seconds to slide down from the helicopter.
MSgt Štefan Tršo and SSgt Jozef Jurík, former members of the SVK Military Police Boarding Team on Op SOPHIA, praised the benefits of the joint training with policemen. They said the training benefited their preparation for potential operational deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. There, in the past members of the Crisis Management Section, Crisis Management, Training and Military Working Dog Branch, MP Dept Vlkanová – Hronsek, operated out of a German ship and earned a very good name for the SVK Armed Forces.
Lt Col Marián Pogány, of the SVK Police Corps Presidium, said: “We are pleased that we can develop cooperation with all police elements across Slovakia in this way too. As we are in the same boat, we must know how to cooperate better on domestic crisis management operations and exchange our experience. Military policemen have a lot of experience, for example, from their deployment to Op SOPHIA in the Mediterranean Sea.”
Cpt Martin Urban, of the SVK Military Police, sees this cooperation as very beneficial. Among others, he believes that individual police elements should not repeat the same mistakes their colleagues have made in the past but should take the lessons learned forward to future training. The practical phase, which took place in an area close to and above the reservoir, was designed, inter alia, for working at heights and above the water level. The teams were often mixed and were made up of MP and Interior Ministry personnel. Tasks included working at heights while hanging down from the helicopter, extracting soldiers with their harness clipped to a single rope, rescuing and carrying injured persons hanging on the rope beneath the helicopter, and conducting rescue operations over the water in cooperation with rescue boats. A Bell 429 helicopter and an Mi-171 helicopter used in the rehearsals were provided by the Ministry of Interior.
According to Cpt Urban, they have used different ropes for rappelling from helicopters. Thick rope is used for greater heights, while thin rope for lower heights. When rappelling from greater heights, policemen also have a thin rope (approx. 30 metres in length) with them. Another method of rappelling is the rope anchored to the helicopter, this rope can be 50-80 metres in length and this type of rappelling is generally slower than the previous one. The fastest way of rappelling is the fast rope. Literally, it takes only a few seconds to slide down from the helicopter.
MSgt Štefan Tršo and SSgt Jozef Jurík, former members of the SVK Military Police Boarding Team on Op SOPHIA, praised the benefits of the joint training with policemen. They said the training benefited their preparation for potential operational deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. There, in the past members of the Crisis Management Section, Crisis Management, Training and Military Working Dog Branch, MP Dept Vlkanová – Hronsek, operated out of a German ship and earned a very good name for the SVK Armed Forces.
