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		</div><p>Police failed to stop drones causing chaos near Gatwick Airport because they had only trained to deal with one device at a time, a senior officer has suggested.</p>
<p>A number of drone sightings forced Britain’s second-busiest airport to shut down for 33 hours in December, disrupting 140,000 passengers’ journeys.</p>
<p>The chaos continued despite a huge police operation and the Army was eventually called in to bring the incident under control.</p>
<p>On Tuesday Lucy Fisher, defence correspondent for The Times, reported that a senior officer for Sussex Police put the problem down to the force only having trained to deal with one drone at a time.</p>
<p>She said that Superintendent Justin Burtenshaw had made the comments at the Interpol World Conference in Singapore last week.</p>
<p>He reportedly said: <em>“We had at some stages two drones, which caused the airport to close for about 30 hours…We’re happy that on at least a couple of those occasions there were two drones flying.</em></p>
<p><em>“We were prepared, we’d done a lot of work beforehand around drone mitigation. We had a drone response plan.</em></p>
<p><em>“We’d been tested by the Centre for the Protection of National infrastructure and we came out really well on that around our drone plan.</em></p>
<p><em>“But that was really around a single drone incursion and not a multiple one.”</em></p>
<p>In the wake of the chaos between December 19 and 21, Gatwick bosses spent millions on anti-drone measures, but would not reveal precise details of the equipment being used.</p>
<p>The Israeli-developed Drone Dome system was believed to be among the technology used at the airport by the Army in bringing the situation under control.</p>
<p>The anti-drone equipment can detect and jam communications between a drone and its operator.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for Sussex Police said: <em>“Our superintendent was speaking at a private conference of security professionals.</em></p>
<p><em>“He reaffirmed, as we have always reported, that this illegal drone incursion presented a unique challenge for those agencies involved.</em></p>
<p><em>“This was deliberate, targeted and persistent, designed to disrupt airport operations.</em></p>
<p><em>“There has been a significant amount of learning from the incident which has already been applied.</em></p>
<p><em>“This has been shared with key partners, both nationally and internationally, to help reduce the threat of hostile drone incursions at airports, with public safety being the priority.”</em></p>
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