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Eastbourne Emergency Services Display 2009
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See you there!
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Welcome to the Eastbourne Emergency Services Display 2009
The Eastbourne 999 Committee would like to thank all those who supported the 2008 event. Despite some bad weather on the Sunday, Saturday saw record crowds flock to this year's show. We are especially grateful to the members of the French Gendarmerie who travelled over to be with us. From all accounts they really enjoyed the display and are making efforts to return for the 2009 display, possibly with more staff and a bigger display. (watch this space for forthcoming announcements). We look forwarded to seeing you back next year for the display which is scheduled for 11th and 12th July 2009. Please check out the photographs of this years event. Photos are courtesy of Police Review, Dan Dunbar, and Ann Gelling.
Want to join us and display at next years event ?If you want to be part of next years display, please use the feed back form to contact us. We are especially looking to foreign emergency services to be part of the event. Owners of vintage, or unusual 999 vehicles who may wish to join us, we will be planning an improved cavalcade and display. Again please contact us via the feed back form, to express your interest.
Roundup of the 2008 Display
Throughout the two days a number of events took place in the arena, including a Police Dog demonstration, extinguishing kitchen fires and mock road crash scenes demonstrating the emergency response. There were seaborne displays from the RNLI and Coastguard and helicopters from the Police, Coastguard search & rescue, and a fixed wing Coast Guard search plane flew by. New For 2008 was our head line attraction is The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment's Parachute display Team, "The Tigers", who dropped into the arena, smoke trailing, flags flying, performing several amazing formations both in the air and under the parachute.
As part of our innovative approach to the display a contingent from the French Gendarmerie Nationale based in the Calais Lille region joined us. East Sussex has strong links with France and the county is twinned with Essonne, whilst several of our towns and villages have twin connections in France. We also have the international port of Newhaven close by, just along the coast from Eastbourne. Newhaven has ferry connections to the French north coast Dieppe with a new route to Le Havre and is establishing strong partnership links with Seine-Maritime. To increase the French feel of this aspect of the event we had BrunoMart French Market with us for the weekend. This is now the largest event of its kind in Sussex and possibly the UK, and its getting bigger and better. This is an ideal opportunity to present the police family together with the other emergency services, in a positive light; to build up community and partnership links. To slow the public to get up close and ask questions in a friendly, family atmosphere. Come and join us again 11th 12th July 2009 Many thanks for supporting for this event. |
The
2008 display was
supported by Eastbourne
Borough Council and displays were provided by the East Sussex Fire
and Rescue Service, Sussex Ambulance, Sussex Police,
Royal National
Lifeboat Institute, Coast Guard, East Sussex Road Safety, Search and
Rescue, and a variety of other supporting agencies. 
For
the second year running the Royal Naval Underwater Bomb Disposal Team
had some of their diving and bomb disposal equipment on show together
with an 18,000 litres divers tank. Joining them in the water were Divers from
the Sussex Police Specialist Search Unit.