02/11/2007 Pictures

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:06 am

PAT??

firefly.000 · Post by **firefly.000** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:09 am

crewman · Post by **crewman** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:13 pm

Someone was on the wrong track for sure when they mentioned AIMS

DOC ESG "Emergency Support Group" is the owner and user of the vehicles in the top three shots. ESG are used for three main roles, Prisoner Escape, Hostage rescue and High Risk escorts.
No they are not known as 'Supermax' but are 'Ballistic Escorts'. As it sounds, Ballistic escorts are carried out by heavily armed and contact drill trained ESG Officers.

All ESG Vehicles are equipped with emergency lighting as well as sirens. They may also operate under Urgent Duty Driving at their discretion alone.

Cheers

Post by **Toottoot** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:15 pm

Wow thats heavy. Have they ever been called upon for hostage retrieval?

bomber · Post by **bomber** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:17 pm

[quote="Tom"]I believe MP77 and 78 aren't too far away bomber.[/quote]

Hey Tom, Heard on the grapevine these are destined for fremantle and daglish. Diglishs pump apparently hit the 400k mark

bomber · Post by **bomber** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:17 pm

[quote="Toottoot"]Wow thats heavy. Have they ever been called upon for hostage retrieval?[/quote]

yes..

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:45 pm

bomber · Post by **bomber** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:47 pm

Yeah pretty spot on there. Got stations confused in is bassendeans pump that hit the 400k mark. They are getting a rough trot after the station fiasco a few weeks ago

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:49 pm

bomber · Post by **bomber** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:51 pm

Isnt that 3/4 of the fleet.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:59 pm

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:45 pm

Would've been a bucketload of catchup post-ESL with SOME neglected local government fleets. Hopefully things will be better all-round very soon!

Schism_ · Post by **Schism_** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:46 pm

Took a quick look at WA Fire Appliances today... 4 Scanias sitting there with nothing on the back of them yet, and about 3 Country Pumpers too

ConstableCare · Post by **ConstableCare** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:02 am

crewman wrote:Someone was on the wrong track for sure when they mentioned AIMS

DOC ESG "Emergency Support Group" is the owner and user of the vehicles in the top three shots. ESG are used for three main roles, Prisoner Escape, Hostage rescue and High Risk escorts.
No they are not known as 'Supermax' but are 'Ballistic Escorts'. As it sounds, Ballistic escorts are carried out by heavily armed and contact drill trained ESG Officers.

All ESG Vehicles are equipped with emergency lighting as well as sirens. They may also operate under Urgent Duty Driving at their discretion alone.

Cheers

Thats exactly what I said in my post "Crewman" regarding the use of these vehicles. I mentioned AIMS (aka GSL) in the role that they carry out (Low Risk Transport) and never refered to them as having a link with these vehicles (DOJ/DOC or whatever they now name themselves!)...

I think that you will still find that prisoners being conveyed by this form of transport (Prisons) will be classed as "Super Max" when they do the paperwork up for transport...

Cheers, CC

Cheers.

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