Editing Alderney (section)

==Healthcare and emergency services==

===Fire and Ambulance Service===
The Alderney Voluntary Fire Brigade has a crew of 12 volunteer firefighters, and operates one [[Iveco Daily]] light water tender with a 10.5{{nbsp}}m ladder, two Iveco water carriers each with a capacity of 4,500{{nbsp}}litres, one [[Ford Ranger]] rapid response unit and two trailer units. A new fire station was officially opened on 20 October 2004 by [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lt.-General]] [[John Foley (British Army general)|Sir John Foley]], the [[Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey]]. The fire station is near [[Braye Harbour]], has four appliance bays, a workshop, kit room, mess and a training room, and achieves an average response time of nine minutes. The [[Alderney Airport]] Fire and Rescue Service is sometimes called on to help with larger conflagrations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://alderney.gov.gg/article/4295/Emergency-Services|title=Emergency Services|last=King's Road|first=St Peter Port|date=29 September 2011|website=alderney.gov.gg|language=en|access-date=22 December 2018|archive-date=23 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223075129/http://alderney.gov.gg/article/4295/Emergency-Services|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britlink.org/crown-dependencies/bailiwick-of-guernsey/alderney/|title=Alderney – Britlink|language=en-GB|access-date=22 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627055506/http://www.britlink.org/crown-dependencies/bailiwick-of-guernsey/alderney/|archive-date=27 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2020, the Ambulance service merged into the Fire service to form the first combined fire and ambulance service in the British Isles outside of [[Dublin Fire Brigade|Dublin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2020-06-11/ambulance-and-fire-service-to-merge-in-alderney|title = Ambulance and fire service to merge in Alderney|date = 11 June 2020}}</ref>

Until 2020, the St John Alderney Ambulance Service operated the ambulance service on the island, and was staffed by volunteers. It had served Alderney since 1952 and was registered as a private company.<ref>{{cite web|title=States of Alderney Emergency Services |url=http://www.alderney.gov.gg/Emergency-Services |publisher=States of Alderney |access-date=3 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214072701/http://www.alderney.gov.gg/Emergency-Services |archive-date=14 December 2011 }}</ref> Patients are transferred to the [[Mignot Memorial Hospital, Alderney|Mignot Memorial Hospital]] in St Anne, and any having major complications are then transferred to Guernsey or Southampton by the [[Aurigny]] between 7{{nbsp}}am and 7{{nbsp}}pm on an emergency basis. Outside these hours or in the event of bad weather preventing an air evacuation the transfer is achieved with the aid of the [[RNLI]] lifeboat service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2017-06-09/aurigny-withdraw-medivac-service-out-of-hours/|title=Aurigny withdraw Medevac service out of hours|website=itv.com|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034233/http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2017-06-09/aurigny-withdraw-medivac-service-out-of-hours/|url-status=live}}</ref> There was no paramedic service available on the island, but this has now changed<ref name="gov.gg">{{Cite web |url=http://www.alderney.gov.gg/article/4295/Emergency-Services |title=Emergency Services - Alderney |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020225250/http://alderney.gov.gg/article/4295/Emergency-Services |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2021-04-23/alderney-states-thank-ambulance-volunteers-for-saving-mans-life|title = Alderney States thank ambulance volunteers for saving man's life|date = 23 April 2021}}</ref>

===Police===
Because of Alderney's low crime rate, day-to-day policing of Alderney is provided by a team of five locally based officers from the [[States of Guernsey Police Service|Guernsey Police]], consisting of a sergeant in charge, two constables, and two [[special constable]]s.<ref>The establishment is listed [http://www.guernsey.police.uk/article/6419/Alderney here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809222800/http://guernsey.police.uk/article/6419/Alderney |date=9 August 2013 }} by name and rank.</ref> They are regularly assisted by visiting constables from Guernsey.<ref name="gov.gg"/> The police station is in QEII Street.

===Lifeboats===
The Alderney lifeboat station was established in 1869, was closed in 1884, and was re-established in 1985 by the [[RNLI]]. The lifeboat station operates an all-weather [[Trent class lifeboat]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/alderney-lifeboat-station|title=Alderney Lifeboat Station|website=rnli.org|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064411/https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/alderney-lifeboat-station|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Search and rescue===
Search and rescue services are provided by Channel Islands Air Search, which uses a [[Britten-Norman Islander]] to search large areas of water using [[infrared camera]]s and a number of other technologies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Channel Islands Air Search|url=http://www.ci-airsearch.com/index.html|publisher=Channel Islands Air Search|access-date=3 December 2011|archive-date=7 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907030004/http://www.ci-airsearch.com/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Formed in 1980, it is staffed entirely by volunteers and is based in Guernsey. When a major search is underway, the French coastguard{{clarify|date=October 2021}} and the Royal Navy are often involved, co-ordinated by the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in [[Jobourg]], France.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}