Recorded interview with Corporal Niamh Underhill, 20 May 2026

Niamh Underhill served with the RAF Police and remembers her participation in the 2023 evacuation of people from Sudan by RAF Atlas and C17 transport aircraft during Operation Polar Bear.

Niamh Underhill explains how she deployed to Sudan with the RAF Police for Operation Polar Bear. She describes her role in screening evacuees before boarding aircraft, the long days worked and the value of the A400M transport aircraft during the operation. She comments on her experience of language, culture and communication while working with evacuees and recalls how they were often tired and stressed after long journeys to the airfield.