During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association ( ENSA ) and then ( on 4 May 1942 ) the BBC's Drama and Repertory company in Manchester.

* Cyprus Joint Police Unit ( CJPU ) RMP / RAF Police

He was Metropolitan Police Commissioner in the 1930s and a defender of the RAF in his later years.

Harry Roberts was arrested in a wooded area within the abandoned RAF Sawbridgeworth at nearby Thorley whilst on the run from the Police following the shooting of three policemen in London in 1966.

** No 2 RAF Police Wing 4 Sqn

Lodger units are the RAF Police, Joint Air Delivery Test and Evaluation Unit ( JADTEU )-A tri-service unit that tests and evaluates air transportation methods, and No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF.

RAF Benson is now also home to a mobile Catering Support Unit and the Chiltern Air Support Unit ( Police ) bases one of its Eurocopter EC 135 helicopters at Benson.

In addition it houses the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group ( JACIG ), HQ Specialist Police Wing ( including the Tactical Provost Wing ), the RAF Centre for Aviation Medicine ( RAF CAM ), DE & S, 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron which operates Vigilant T1 motor gliders and a training section for the Bowman ( communications system ).

His first words to the RAF Police were a request for political asylum.

After WW2, RAF Bishopbriggs was utilised as a training school for the Royal Military Police for a time.

Recruits that needed to drive ( RAF Police, MT ( Mechanical Transport ) drivers, etc.

RAF Police non-commissioned officers and warrant officers are noticeable by their white-topped caps ( giving rise to their nickname of Snowdrops ), which they have worn since 1945, and by black and red flashes worn below their rank slides ( known as Mars Bars ).

RAF Police commissioned officers wear the standard peaked cap of all Royal Air Force officers, although they wear ' Mars Bars ' in the same way as RAFP NCOs.

The RAF Police is headed by the Provost Marshal, who holds the rank of Group Captain.

These flights are then responsible to and directed by RAF Police Squadrons, that are based at larger stations around the UK, who are themselves responsible to, and directed by the Provost Marshal of the RAF Police, through their respective Wing Commanders.

RAF Policemen and women are not responsible to, or under the direct command of, the Commanding Officer of the station at which they are based and their authority to act as Service Police Officers stems directly from the Armed Forces Act 2006.

Unlike their Intelligence Corps counterparts, who tend to specialise in a particular area, RAF Police Protective Security specialists are trained in all aspects of the role.

Modern RAF Police flights may operate shifts, but these are usually only involved in general policing duties and are normally commanded by a Substantive Corporal ( larger shifts may require a Sergeant ).

British International ( BRINTEL ) also operate two Sikorsky S61N helicopters, based at RAF Mount Pleasant, under contract to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, primarily for moving military personnel, equipment and supplies around the islands.

They would also provide RAF and Army units to support internal security in the north-east.

The RAF also used LORAN on raids beyond the range of GEE.

But RAF organisation and outlook were also partly modeled on the Uruguayan Tupamaros movement, which had developed as an urban resistance movement, effectively inverting Che Guevara's Mao-like concept of a peasant or rural-based guerrilla war and instead situating the struggle in the metropole or cities.

Several RAF bases were also established at Sullom Voe and several lighthouses suffered enemy air attacks.

The terms of the base rights granted for Bermuda also included that the airfield constructed by the US would be used jointly with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

Maintaining their skills in designing trainer aircraft, the company built a more robust biplane called the Avro Tutor in the 1930s that the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) also bought in quantity.

It also included the first use of the name Rote Armee Fraktion and, in the publications of it, the first use of the RAF insignia.

Gudrun Ensslin (; 15 August 1940 – 18 October 1977 ) was a founder of the German militant group Red Army Faction ( Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang ).

The fair includes many things for visitors to watch, including a vintage car show, horse driving, pipe bands, highland dancing, many cooking demonstrations by renowned chefs, and a display by the famous RAF Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows The fair also has several ' Have a go ' things to do, including clay pigeon shooting, a. 22 rifle range, laser clay pigeon shooting, archery, fly-fishing, an air rifle range and a large children's fairground containing a vintage ferris wheel, helter-skelter and chair-o-planes.

63 Sqn RAF Regt also equipped with Rapier deployed from Gütersloh, Germany to San Carlos with 5 Brigade.

Biggin Hill also has an airport, London Biggin Hill Airport, which uses much of the land formerly used by RAF Biggin Hill Aerodrome.

The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made use of Eastbury house and also created a network of underground bunkers and operations blocks.

Stanmore was also home to RAF Bentley Priory from where the Battle of Britain was controlled, also formerly to RAF Stanmore Park, HQ of Balloon Command.

The borough also includes RAF Northolt and the former sites of RAF Eastcote, RAF South Ruislip, RAF West Drayton, RAF West Ruislip and RAF Uxbridge.

A Royal Air Force station was also established using one area of the tunnels, RAF Box, and during the war a fallback aircraft engine factory was established to the north of Box Tunnel.

Another royal visitor, Charles, Prince of Wales, also used the room frequently while a cadet at nearby RAF Cranwell.

The development of the tactical innovation of the bomber stream by the RAF to overwhelm the German aerial defenses of the Kammhuber Line during World War II would have increased the RAF's concentration in time over the target, but after the lessons learned during the Blitz, the concentration of dropping bombs over the target in the shortest time possible became standard tactic of the RAF because it was known to be more effective than spreading the raid over a longer time period.

* 6 September-Just days after the start of the war, in what was dubbed the Battle of Barking Creek, three RAF Spitfires from 74 Squadron shot down two Hurricanes from the RAF's 56 Squadron, killing one of the pilots.

* RAF Flying Training Command, a now defunct organization responsible for delivering the RAF's flying training

Instead, Trenchard, seeking equal status with Sykes, argued for a reorganization of the RAF which would have seen himself appointed as the RAF's commander of fighting operations while Sykes would have been left to deal with administrative matters.

In 1922, the RAF Staff College at Andover was set up to provide air force-specific training to the RAF's middle-ranking officers.

The success of this small air action then allowed Trenchard to put the case for the RAF's policing of the British Empire and in 1922 the RAF was given control of all British Forces in Iraq.

RAF Halton is the RAF's centre for recruit training and airmen's development training, and also hosts a number of other independent units.

The town is located just south of Robin Hood Airport, formerly RAF Finningley, and was home to the RAF's No. 1 Group Bomber Command Headquarters at Bawtry Hall ( see RAF Bawtry ).

Long-range operations were entirely dependent upon the RAF's tanker fleet and so 14 Handley Page Victor tankers were transferred from RAF Marham to Ascension Island.

RAF Bomber Command controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968.

The fiftieth anniversary of the RAF was celebrated at the base on 1 April 1968, mainly because the RAF's last flying Lancaster was based at the airfield from the mid-1960s until 1970, when moved temporarily to Hendon.

The squadron was reformed in 2002, to operate the RAF's Boeing C-17s from RAF Brize Norton.

Since June 2007 the Typhoons of No. 3 ( F ) Squadron have formed part of air defence of the UK along with RAF Leeming near Northallerton in North Yorkshire and RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, both of which were equipped with Tornado F3 fighters but Leeming lost its last Tornados in 2008 with the disbandment of 25 Squadron and its concentration on being the RAF's communications hub.

Also based at Coningsby is the RAF's Fast Jet and Weapons Operational Evaluation Unit ( FJWOEU ), a merger of the Strike / Attack OEU ( previously at Boscombe Down ), the Tornado F. 3 OEU ( previously at RAF Waddington ) and the Air-Guided Weapons OEU ( previously at RAF Valley ).

In 2011, with the closure of RAF Lyneham and the transfer of the RAF's Hercules force to Brize Norton, it was announced that No. 10 Squadron would be reformed in 2012 as the first operator of the new Airbus Voyager due to enter service in late 2011.

It has taken over the role of Quick Reaction Alert for the north of the United Kingdom from No. 111 Squadron RAF, the RAF's last Panavia Tornado F3 squadron, in March 2011.

Originally called Joint Force 2000, it combined the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier FA2 squadrons with the RAF's Harrier GR 7 / 7A squadrons under a single command structure within RAF Strike Command.

While serving in both functions, he was kidnapped on September 5, 1977 by the far left terrorist organisation Red Army Faction ( RAF ) and murdered one and a half months later after the German government did not give in to RAF's demands.

Formerly the RAF's firefighters were also members of the RAF Regiment, although they are now independent of it.

The museum, which is open daily except Sundays, commemorates the RAF's presence in Lincolnshire during the Second World War, with airfields such as RAF Scampton being located in the flat Lincolnshire countryside.

Three years later, RAF Mildenhall opened on 16 October 1934, as one of the RAF's largest bomber stations.