In answer to the question about why Government fund Police Helicopters and not EMS may I put forward this (possible) answer:- Figures for crime (and the police ability to conbat it) are published on a regular basis and the contents of these reports and statistics are used by ALL political parties to their own ends whilst campaigning for your vote. No similar statistics seem to be available for accidents etc. The general public seem to worry, and respond, much more to statistics on crime than they do for accidents. As for the comment about "using the police helicopter to catch speeding motorists? I certainly haven't been involved in catching speeding motorists in the sense of the member of the public doing 45 in a 30 zone but the driver doing 100 in a built up area is a different story. Sometimes a pursuing police car can exacerbate a situation but a helo can stay with the car (sometimes unknown to the driver co ordinating resources to bring a situation to an end with no injury. I'd call it preventative medecine, no accident, no injury, no need for an ambulance wheel or rotor propelled!!