Human trafficking is another area policed, with close working relationships existing with Border Force and UK Visas and Immigration.
The plans included forming three new departments within Specialist Operations to carry out specific functions: Firearms commonly used for armed airport policing duties: Armed Response Airport Vehicles patrol the entry and exit points to the main terminal buildings, the perimeter roads and respond to firearms calls in local boroughs.
The officers can be distinguished from their armed colleagues as they wear white caps, high visibility jackets and drive conventionally motorway marked battenburg liveried vehicles and are unarmed.
This small group of highly specialised officers have led the implementation of new legislation, the Railway & Transport Safety Act to regulate drink flying offences in the UK.
Utilising special breath test devices, officers screen crews accused of having consumed alcohol to prove or disprove the allegation.