South Ayrshire Police Area Commander joins Troon RNLI crew for training night
On Monday 29 July 2019, on the crews weekly training exercise, Chief Inspector Brian Anderson, the recently appointed Area Commander for South Ayrshire, joined the lifeboat crew to see first hand what we do and how we can assist our Police Scotland colleagues.
During the exercise, Chief Inspector Anderson spoke with the crew aboard our RNLI Trent class all-weather lifeboat RNLB Jim Moffat as the crew completed a navigational exercise as part of their weekly training.
While at the sea, the crew explained what it was like to be a RNLI volunteer and what training the crew undertake as part of their Competency Based Training. The Chief Inspector was shown a selection of the equipment carried aboard the all-weather lifeboat and how we use this equipment during callouts such as missing person searches.
Following the exercise Coxswain Joe Millar said ‘As we regularly work with our Police Scotland colleagues at incidents throughout the year it was very worthwhile to meet with Chief Inspector Anderson to show him how we can further assist the officers of Ayrshire Police Division.’
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