Chapter 7 - Sustainable Development, Military Aid to the Civil Authorities and Conflict Prevention
             
Table 7.7 Military Aid to the Civil Power, to other Government Department and to the Civil
                     Community - examples of assistance provided.
Defence provided operational support to the civil powers on over 70 different occasions in 2009/10 on a range of operations. The military provide specialist niche capabilities unavailable to the civil power and always acts in support of the civil power.
Year Date Location   Number of
personnel		   Type of assistance
             
2004 12-13 Aug Gloucester   30   Assisted Police searching for a missing person.
             
2004 16-20 Aug Boscastle   50   Search and Rescue helicopter evacuation, helicopter heavy lift and Royal Engineer search assistance following a flash flood.
             
2004 August Moreton-in-Marsh   1500   Training to provide a fire service during industrial dispute (called off before deployment).
             
2004 09 Dec Linton-on-Ouse   12   Defence Fire Service assisted after a civilian airplane crashed.
             
2005 08-10 Jan Carlisle   30   Search and Rescue evacuation and 20 RAF personnel assisting post flooding.
             
2005 15 Mar W of Kintyre   44   HMS Penzance located the wreckage of downed Scottish Air Ambulance helicopter.
             
2005 Jul-Aug Suffolk   90   Provided fire service during industrial dispute under Operation Fresco
             
2005 Sep-Oct West Midlands   329   Provided fire service during industrial dispute under Operation Fresco
             
2005 24 Nov Leicester   5   Flew a patient by C130 Hercules aircraft from Republic of Ireland to Leicester Hospital.
             
2006 03 Mar N Ireland   4   Rescuing of a woman by helicopter, who required immediate medical attention and was stranded on Rathlin Island off the Northern Ireland coast.
             
2006 09 May Paris   11   A Tri-STAR re-routed via Orly with 3 x Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors to conduct a heart transplant operation in Paris.
             
2006 25 May London   4   A C130 moved 4 x surgeons to Aldergrove Airport to collect a heart for a transplant at Great Ormond Street hospital.
             
2007 18 Jan Thames Valley   60   Household Cavalry Regiment deployed 60 personnel to support Thames Valley Police during severe weather.
             
2007 26 Feb Cumbria   10   Provision of imagery in support of the Grayrigg train crash rescue.
             
2007 27 Jun Yorkshire   100   Flood relief.
             
2007 20-31 Jul Gloucestershire   1000+   Evacuation following flooding and distribution of bottled / bulk water.
             
2007 14 Nov Glasgow   4   A C130 moved a critically ill patient from London to specialist facilities in Glasgow.
             
2008 02 Feb North West   4   Search and Rescue aircraft assisted with evacuation of personnel from MV Riverdance.
             
2008 29 Apr Jersey   3   Search assistance at Haut de la Garrenne.
             
2008 01 Jun London   11   Use of VC-10 for transport of heart for transplant from Aberdeen to Great Ormond Street.
             
2008 04 Jul Somerset   2   Provided imagery and analysis in search for missing person.
             
2008 21 Jul Kent   6   Provided scientific response team to recycling site after discovery of dangerous chemicals.
             
2008 16 Aug Northern Ireland   20   Provided assistance with sandbagging for flash floods in Newcastle, NI.
             
2008 05-06 Sep Morpeth   12   Provided assistance with sandbagging for flash floods in Morpeth.
             
2008 01 Oct Wales   2   Provided imagery analysis in search for missing person.
             
2008 04 Dec Lancashire   4   Assisted police to recover stranded drivers during heavy snow.
             
2009 19 Jan Stornoway   8   Use of C130 to transfer premature twins to hospital.
             
2009 31 Mar North Yorks   2   Imagery analysis in search for missing person.
             
2009 12 Jun Hampshire   2   Provided imagery analysis as part of criminal investigation
             
2009 Jul-Nov London   1   Provided logistics planner to DoH flu planning team
             
2009 19 Aug Staffordshire   45   Provided troops to police to help search for missing person
             
2009 November Cumbria   250   Flood relief and construction of temporary footbridge
             
2010 January Various locations   50   Support during severe weather (snow) mainly providing drivers and 4x4 vehicles
             
2010 19 Feb West Midlands   7   Provided specialist search equipment to look for suspected weapons cache
             
2010 24 Feb Hampshire   8   Provided dive team to search for a vehicle crashed into quarry
             
Source: MOD