Eastbourne Emergency Services Display
July 5th and 6th 2008
Western Lawns, King Edwards Parade, Eastbourne


The Largest Display Of Emergency Services In The UK

Welcome to the Eastbourne Emergency Services Display 2008

We believe our 999 event in Sussex, which attracts over 30,000 people each year, is the largest public display of the emergency services in the United Kingdom.  The purpose of the event is to promote partnerships between agencies and regions, raise awareness and promote our services to the community, educate and impart important community safety information and interact with the community to hear their views on how we can better serve them. The display is now over 20 years old and takes place on the Western Lawns in Eastbourne, adjacent to the Seafront - a prime location in the summer months.

The display is supported by Eastbourne Borough Council and displays are 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. Throughout the two days a number of events take place in the arena, including a Police Dog demonstration, extinguishing kitchen fires and mock road crash scenes demonstrating the emergency response. There are seaborne displays from the RNLI and Coastguard and it is anticipated helicopters from the Police, Coastguard search & rescue, and a fixed wing Coast Guard search plane will fly by.  Its not been confirmed but we may also be joined off shore by a Royal Navy training ship, a Coast Guard patrol cutter, and a Sussex Fisheries Protection cutter.

New For 2008 and our head line attraction is The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment's Parachute display Team, "The Tigers", who will be dropping into the arena, smoke trailing, flags flying, performing several amazing formations both in the air and under the parachute.

For the second year running the Royal Naval Underwater Bomb Disposal Team will have some of their diving and bomb disposal equipment on show together with an 18,000 litres divers tank. Joining them in the water will be Divers from the Sussex Police Specialist Search Unit.

As part of our innovative approach to the display we are inviting a contingent from the French Gendarmerie Nationale based in the Calais Lille region to join us this year. 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 have BrunoMart French Market coming 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.

Many thanks for supporting for this event.