"So basically thats a critisism of your own industry?
With three or four basic employers in the Police/ambo world are you saying they have the wages all stiffed up?"
Yes, sort of!
The UK has in the past relied on ex-military pilots, many of whom had earned a pension, to fly for the police. Still does to some lesser extent. It allowed the pilots a relatively easy transition (pun) to the civvy world, the police got the job at a low price by very well experienced blokes, and the employers made a reasonable profit.
I decided to move on when the company I worked for lost the contract by putting in a new tender far in excess of their present contract. The new, cheaper, company gaining the contract had no pilots to man it and expected the present incumbents to stay on and accept a lower salary and less time off......
Enough said?