POLICE helicopters were deployed across Northern Ireland 10 times last year to assist the ambulance service airlifting patients to hospital.
Three PSNI helicopters have the ability to deploy a stretcher, and two ambulance service staff are permitted on board.
The police helicopter assisted in airlifts in locations across five counties – with the exception of Fermanagh – throughout 2016, bringing patients to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, and to the Royal Victoria and Musgrave Park hospitals in Belfast.