Royal Malaysian Police Air Wing Unit


The Royal Malaysia Police Air Operation Force is a special unit of Royal Malaysia Police. They look after national security by surveillance and patrol from the air and help other national security agencies.

History

Established in February 1978, when the cabinet gave approval to RMP to set up the unit. All RMP's aircraft property were registered under the control the civil registration. The unit formally established on 1 February 1979 and the title of the commander units at that time known as Air Wing Chief with turnover four units type aircraft Cessna 206 G. On 7 April 1980, UUP began the flight operation in Peninsula Malaysia.
The Sg Besi Airbase was the Air Wing's main operating base in the peninsula apart from the training base in Ipoh Airport, Perak. The Air Wing also operates from two other bases namely in Kuching International Airport, Sarawak and Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah.
On 19 March 2018, its new Peninsular Airbase was inaugurated at Subang Airport, Selangor. The new air base is located at the southern end of the runway.

Roles

UUP's role is to make surveillance from the air on the east coast and hinterland checking for pirate activities, smuggling and others criminal activities. Other than that UUP is also responsible to answer help calls by other branches PDRM by observation through the air. This unit also responsible to carry out mercy flight and to ferry senior police officers. Currently, UUP owns 6 helicopters, 6 Caravan aircraft types, 5 Pilatus PC-6 aircraft type and 3 Cessna U20G aircraft type.

List of Air Wing Commanding Officer

Name of officerDateDuties
Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohd Noor Jamari1 May 1978 – 16 June 1988First Air Wing Commanding Officer
Deputy Superintendent of Police Larry Chung Yun Joo17 June 1988 – 28 May 1990replaced DSP. Mohd Noor
Assistant Commissioner of Police Ali Hanafiah Hashim29 May 1990 – 15 March 1995
Assistant Commissioner of Police Syed Hussein Syed Mohd16 March 1995 – 5 July 2002
Assistant Commissioner of Police Abdul Rahman Hashim6 July 2002 – 2007
Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Dato' Chuah Ghee Lye2007 – 31 December 2010
Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Dato' Kamarulzaman Bin Md Jan1 January 2011 – present
Deputy Commissioner of Police Dato’ S.Sathiya Seelan16 May 2015 - 28 December 2018
Deputy Commissioner of Police Dato’ Mohd Rafique Bin Ramli Ariffin17 January 2019 - present

Aircraft

Royal Malaysia Police Air Operations Force or Pasukan Gerakan Udara is a special aviation unit of Royal Malaysia Police. This unit operates both fixed wings aircraft and helicopters. Currently the aircraft of the PGU consist of Cessna Caravan, Pilatus PC6 Porter and Beechcraft King Airs for fixed wings and Eurocopter AS355s and Agusta Westland AW139s for helicopters.

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