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12, If the aircraft insists on landing, NATS will, in the interests of safety, accept it and seek to control it. The police would prefer to handle a landing at a military airfield, which has a"secure perimeter and where disturbance of normal traffic can be minimised. Accordingly NATS will seek to direct the aircraft to • Brize Norton, where the Thames Valley Police will be responsible for reception. If the aircraft refuses to accept direction to Brize Norton, and insists on landing at one of the London airports, it will be directed to Heathrow. This is the preferred choice if a civil airfield is necessary, as it has a strong police presence (over 70 officers immediately available) and a well-tested procedure for isolating hijacked aircraft, 13, Senior officers of the Metropolitan, Themes Valley, Essex and Sussex police forces, in consultation with the Chief Inspector of the Immigration Service and the Ministry of Defence, have agreed upon contingency plans for handling the aircraft and passengers on arrival. These are described in Appendix A to this note. The salient features of these plans are: • ' a) transfer of party in small groups to points where they can be j.nterviewed as necessary and held; b) segregation of Amin from the rest of the party; c) disarming of all armed personnel in the party. /