Mauritius Police Helicopter Squadron, 50 Years (Mauritius 2024)

Stamp Mauritius Police Helicopter Squadron, 50 Years it reflects the thematic directions:

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of short take-off and landing (STOL) or short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft cannot perform without a runway.

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder Their lawful powers encompass arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.