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PAN/PAvCon (Police Aviation News/Police Aviation Conference) has now morphed into PAvCon Europe. PAvCon Europe, which stands for the Police Aviation Conference Europe, has evolved significantly since its inception back in the Shephard days, adapting to the ever changing needs and technologies in police aviation. Here’s an overview of its development:

Origins and Purpose Founding: PAvCon Europe was established to provide a platform for professionals in police aviation to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. It was designed to bring together operators, manufacturers, and other stakeholders involved in police aviation. Initial Focus: The initial focus was on facilitating networking among European police aviation units and offering specialized training and workshops. The conference aimed to improve operational efficiency and safety through the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Growth and Development

Expansion: Over the years, PAvCon expanded its scope beyond just Europe, attracting participants from around the world. It became a significant event for the international police aviation community.

Topics Covered:The conference began to cover a broader range of topics, including technological advancements in aviation, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), new surveillance technologies, and innovations in aircraft equipment

Exhibitions and Demonstrations:

Alongside seminars and workshops, the conference started featuring exhibitions and live demonstrations. These allowed manufacturers and service providers to showcase the latest technologies and products relevant to police aviation.

Recent Developments

Adapting to Technological Changes:

A In recent years, the conference has placed more emphasis on the integration of new technologies, such as drones and advanced data analytics, into police operations. This reflects the growing importance of these tools in modern law enforcement.

Focus on Training and Education

: :The event has continued to emphasize the importance of training and professional development, offering specialized sessions for both new and experienced personnel in police aviation.

Virtual Components

: : : Like many other conferences, PAvCon Europe has adapted to the global shift towards digital events, incorporating virtual components to reach a wider audience and provide more flexible participation options.

Impact and Influence

PAvCon Europe has played a critical role in shaping the landscape of police aviation by promoting innovation, fostering collaboration, and encouraging the adoption of best practices. Its evolution reflects the dynamic nature of the field and the continuous efforts to enhance the effectiveness and safety of police aviation operations worldwide.

Collaborations and Partnerships

: : :PAvCon Europe developed collaborations with various organizations, including police departments, aviation authorities, and industry leaders. These partnerships helped to enhance the quality and relevance of the conference content.

PAvCon Europe 2024

Another PAvCon Event complete!

PAvCon Europe 2024, held from May 27-29 at the Airborne Technologies facility in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, continued its tradition of fostering collaboration and innovation in the field of police aviation. This year’s event emphasized crew training and technological advancements, offering a platform for law enforcement officers from across Europe to engage with industry leaders. The conference featured an exclusive police training day, a two-day exhibition, and various networking opportunities aimed at enhancing the operational capabilities of airborne emergency services.

The event was hosted in a spacious hangar at Airborne Technologies, providing a dynamic setting for exhibitors and attendees. Highlights included presentations from leading companies like Diamond Aircraft and Schiebel, showcasing cutting-edge aviation technology and services. PAvCon Europe is known for its focus on cost-effective participation for police agencies, ensuring broad attendance despite financial constraints. The 2024 conference successfully maintained its reputation as a vital meeting point for knowledge exchange and professional development in police aviation.

Thank you to Airborne Technologies for providing the support (and everything else!) and of course to you the attendees. Next year’s event will hopefully be announced around September to facilitate futue planning and budgets. All at PAvCon Europe will now take a well earned break before the planning starts for 2025!

To view the 2024 PAvCon Europe Conference report, click on photo left.

To view the latest issue of PAN, click the picture right.

Above, Networking at PAvCon ….the important ingredient? Food and drink and a relaxed atmosphere!

Latest News With PAvCon Europe Conference now a past memory, we focus our energy on next year’s event. Sorting out a venue that can hold the conference and has suitable travel and hotel arrangements, takes time. It is hoped that by September an announcement can be made as to where the next PAvCon Conference will be. This means that you can plan ahead and get your budgets aligned in readiness for your attendance!

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Growth and Development

Expansion: Over the years, PAvCon expanded its scope beyond just Europe, attracting participants from around the world. It became a significant event for the international police aviation community.

Exhibitions and Demonstrations:

Collaborations and Partnerships

Recent Developments

Adapting To Technological Changes:In recent years, the conference has placed more emphasis on the integration of new technologies, such as drones and advanced data analytics, into police operations. This reflects the growing importance of these tools in modern law enforcement.

Focus On Training and Education:The event has continued to emphasize the importance of training and professional development, offering specialized sessions for both new and experienced personnel in police aviation.

Virtual Components: Like many other conferences, PAvCon Europe has adapted to the global shift towards digital events, incorporating virtual components to reach a wider audience and provide more flexible participation options.

Impact and Influence

PAvCon Europe 2024

Another PAvCon Event complete!

To view the 2024 PAvCon Europe Conference report, click on photo left.

To view the latest issue of PAN, click the picture right.

Above, Networking at PAvCon ….the important ingredient? Food and drink and a relaxed atmosphere!

Latest News With PAvCon Europe Conference now a past memory, we focus our energy on next year’s event. Sorting out a venue that can hold the conference and has suitable travel and hotel arrangements, take time. It is hoped that by September an announcement can be made as to where the next PAvCon Conference will be. This means that you can plan ahead and get your budgets aligned in readiness for your attendance!

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What Is PAvCon Europe?

PAvCon Europe is a conference dedicated to public safety aviation. It is an annual event that brings together professionals and organizations involved in law enforcement and public safety aviation operations across Europe. The conference typically includes a range of activities such as: Workshops and Presentations: Covering the latest technologies, operational techniques, and safety procedures in aviation. Exhibitions: Showcasing products and services from various manufacturers and service providers in the aviation industry. Networking Opportunities: Facilitating connections between industry professionals, government agencies, and manufacturers.There are sponsored evening meals and out of conference drinks receptions which bring together many different professionals in a convivial atmosphere. This is networking at its best and where friends are made. Training Sessions: Providing specialized training to improve the skills and knowledge of participants in areas like helicopter operations, drone usage, and surveillance technology.

PAvCon Europe is attended by police air units, emergency service providers, and other public safety aviation stakeholders, making it a key event for sharing knowledge and advancements in the field. The event moves to different locations across Europe each year to increase accessibility and engagement with various regional participants.

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President - Bryn Elliott After spending over 30 years in London’s Metropolitan Police [1965-1996] and researching police and emergency services aviation Bryn set up a newsletter for the industry that has now evolved into the free access monthly e-magazine Police Aviation News [PAN]. PAN was one of the first of many such e-magazines to become available and has evolved to cover all airborne aspects of the emergency services. After Alexander Shephard invited him to assist with the programme content of a new series of Police Aviation Conferences in 2006 three similar conferences were organised in the UK and Netherlands [2006/2007/2008]. PAvCon is a continuation and development of the original Shephard formula.president@pavconeurope.eu

PAvCon Europe Consultants

Glenn Daley

Glenn Daley served with the New York City Police Department from 1981 to 2004. During his 23 year career he held numerous enforcement assignments including assignment to the Emergency Service Unit. His duties there included liaison to military special operations units and as counter-terrorism instructor. Glenn holds a Master of Aeronautical Science Degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with specialisation in Aviation/Aerospace Safety Systems and Operations. In 1993 he was assigned to the Aviation Unit in the rank of Sergeant as a Pilot/Operations Supervisor. In 2000 he was promoted to Lieutenant and continued to serve in the Aviation Unit performing the duties of SAR Pilot, Instructor Pilot and Platoon Commander until his retirement in 2004. From 2000 until 2008 he held the position of Northeast Director for the Airborne Law Enforcement Association responsible for the Northeast US and Europe and that brought him into contact with those in the region in what was to evolve into the event we now know as PAvCon. Captain Daley currently serves as a pilot in the New York City metro area. Additionally he provides law enforcement aviation operations and safety consulting worldwide. glenn@pavconeurope.eu

Harald Brink is based with the Dutch Police Air Support Unit based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol-East since 2009 Harald has been a police officer since the early 1990s. The unit operates two satellite offices, one at Rotterdam-The Hague Airport and one at Volkel AFB. The Netherlands operate a fleet of six Airbus Helicopters EC135 P2+ and two Leonardo AW139 helicopters has 32 pilots and 22 TFOs to cover the whole of the Netherlands and a large part of the North Sea (Coats Guard patrols). This last task is undertaken with the AW139. Harald started to work for the police 25 years ago, first in patrol in the city of The Hague, later on transferred to the National Police Force doing a range of duties. Since 2009 he has been a TFO in the Air Support Unit. Progressing to be a TFO instructor and examiner for both types of helicopters since 2012. Harald joined PAvCon for the first time in 2013 and became an ALEA member in 2014. He is an enthusiastic exponent of the networking between ASUs in and outside Europe. Share with and listen/learn from each other, especially in the times we are in right now. harald@pavconeurope.eu

Luc Stremersch started his career in the Belgian Air Force in 1980 . In 1993 he joined the Belgium Gendarmerie to help start-up an ir Support Unit based at Brussels Airport employed as an observer. The unit later became part of the Federal Police. Through the next 27 years he was part of the team that inducted a range of new aircraft and EO/IR sensor systems into the fleet. In 2020 he retired from the police air unit after flying 7,000 operational hours in a range of aircraft, mainly helicopters, but also including fixed wing and even a Zeppelin airship. He also worked freelance in work for the broadcasting industry and acted as tutor in effective law enforcement use of EO/IR gimbals in Slovenia, Australia, Algeria, Slovenia, South America, UK and the USA. He specialises in the use of EO/IR gimbals and the search for missing persons with a helicopter. In 2015 he got also his professional Drone License as a pilot but also as a drone builder and maintainer. He still teaches on a freelance basis worldwide. luc@pavconeurope.eu

BILL PROBETS Sergeant/Chief Pilot [Ret] has been speaking at PAvCon Europe for the last few years with his own brand of the ‘Undercover American.’ He was a police officer in England for 9 years but his desire to fly led him, via several years as a commercial helicopter pilot, to law enforcement aviation in California as a sworn, public safety pilot. Bill recently retired as Chief Pilot and Unit Executive Officer of the East Bay Regional Park District in northern California but continues as Lead Accreditation Assessor for the Airborne Public Safety Accreditation Commission. He has conducted in depth reviews of many city, county, state and federal aviation programs in the USA and the Middle East. Bill holds an FAA ATP-H, CPL-A (S/E & M/E), CFI (NVG), and CFII, as well as UK CAA ATPL-H. He has almost 10,000 flight hours as Pilot in Command in single and multi-engine helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in a variety of operating environments. Mission experience includes pilot flight and crew training, offshore oil and gas operations, law enforcement, counter narcotics, surveillance, wild-land fire suppression and remote scene aeromedical operations. bill@pavconeurope.eu

In 1993-94 Joseba Mendizabal spent 18 months with the Spanish Foreign Legion Special Operations Battalion and earned the Spanish Foreign Legion Green Beret. In 1995-96 he attended the Basque Country Police Academy, passing out to serve in three different police precincts across Basque Country on police patrol duties and as a bodyguard in a VIP Protection Squad. Whilst so serving, from 2001- 2003 he entered flight training and gained a PPL (H) and progressed to a CPL (H), gaining entry to the Basque Country Police Department Helicopter Unit. Since 2003 he has flown police AS350 B2, EC135T1 and SA365C3 on police and rescue missions and is currently a pilot rated as PIC for both police and SAR missions with a flight time in excess of 2,000 hours. He has the ICAO SMS course and since 2014 he is a Board Member of the Spanish Commercial Pilots Guild. He also collaborated as a translator and SAR training instructor with the Argentina Policía Federal in Buenos Aires. joseba@pavconeurope.eu

PAvCon Europe Crew Members

Imogen Banks. An experienced Event Director with over twenty five years demonstrable history of working within the Event Management industry specialising in Financial Services events. Skilled in project and events delivery, stakeholder management, marketing and business development as well as managing events on an international scale, in person and online across multiple platforms (conferences, exhibitions, seminars, awards and corporate partners). Graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a degree in Business Management. General contact e-mail: admin@pavconeurope.eu

Adrian Harrison Admin and Webmaster. Working with people in variety of fields for over 50 years has placed Adrian as the ideal person to continue acting as receptionist for the PAvCon Europe experience. He will deal with all your on the day needs, hand you your badges, amend them if needed, find you the person you need to speak to and even find you a pair of scissors or adhesive tape you forgot to bring. As the Webmaster undoubtedly an important guiding hand to all events and, probably, the most important man on the day. adrian@pavconeurope.eu

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On behalf of the whole Dynamic Range team, welcome to PAvCon Europe Conference 2024. We are looking forward to helping the conference run smoothly for you, the attendee, and for ABT, the hosts. We aim to be professional and provide a conference to remember and to keep the ‘PAvCon family’ feel. I look forward to meeting you all and understanding an industry totally new to me as an event organiser, but one I will relish and cannot wait for the end of May to come round. Please feel free to contact me with your enquiries at admin@pavconeurope.eu Imogen Banks - Conference Organiser

Work is well under way with the 2024 event. Please revisit this site regulary as updates will be added when ready. Forms for attendees, advertising etc. will be placed here within the week. Please complete as soon as possible to ensure you reserve your space! Forms will be sent to last years attendees prior to being uploaded here. PAvCon Europe 2024 Hotel Information: The PAvCon Europe hotel of choice for 2024 is the Hilton Garden Inn, Promenade 6, 2700 Wiener Neustadt. https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/viewngi-hilton-garden-inn- wiener-neustadt/ We have secured a special rate for our attendees: quote“PAvCon 2024”. Simply send your request via email to reservation@hgi-wn.at Dates & Rates: DATE: 25th till 30th of May 2024 RATE: €130,00 per room/night/single use / €155,00 per room/night/double use The price is including breakfast and taxes but excluding city tax City tax costs extra € 2,50 per person/day Check-in & Check-out: Check-in from 3 p.m. on the arrival date Check-out till 12 midday on the departure date

Booking the conference and exhibition. If you are an exhibitor please use these forms: Exhibitor Booking form - Pdf format Exhibitor Booking form - Word (Docx) format Exhibitor Oversize Space form - Pdf format Exhibitor Oversize Space form - Word (Docx) format If you are a delegate please use these forms: Delegate Booking form - Pdf format Delegate Booking form - Word (Docx) format We look forward to seeing you at the Conference and Exhibition. If you have any queries or need further information at this point, please email me here Don’t delay in booking as space is limited!

Please note: We are now fully booked. If you wish to add your name to the list of ‘standby’ exhibitors, please contact admin. Alternatively, you can book to walk the floor with no stand.

Event Guide Click here for the event guide. This guide will be added to as more information becomes available. This guide will give information on hotels, speakers, events etc. Please check this guide regularly to keep up to date! For Pdf version of Event Guide click here Click here for speakers guide

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Unfortunately, no hotel offers easy walking access to the venue. The Hilton Garden Inn is located in the centre of Wiener Neustadt and PAvCon Europe will hold training classes here on Monday 27th May 2024. The main conference and exhibition will be at the Airborne Technologies facilities, Viktor-Lang- Straße 8, 2700 Wiener Neustadt on the 28-29 May, a short taxi ride away. Another hotel option nearer to the Airborne Technologies facilities is the Plaza Inn Wiener Neustadt. https://plazahotels.de/hotel-wiener-neustadt/

Above, the very clean looking hangar where PAvCon 2024 will take place. With a bit of work the hangar transforms into PAvCon Exhibition and Conference. The conference rooms are separate from the main hangar floor space, being upstairs.

PAvCon Europe Exhibitors 2024

This years conference was held at Airborne Technologies of Wiener Neustadt, Austria from 27-29 May 2024.

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