Conflicts between tasking are actually very rare, to the extent that I personally feel many more should be joint units. In most areas these days you have a police ASU and an air ambulance. They each do between 2 and 3 hours a day. Council tax or charitable fundraising, they both rely on public money [and of course the AA's are all leased so must include a profit margin]. They are both sent on a certain percentage of tasks which, let's face it, could be avoided if there was a more objective decision making process....but that would involve the tasking agencies working together a damn sight more than they do at the moment. As an example, our local AA is on 10 hours a day and does about 1000 turnouts a year; our police ASU has been called on out of hours 4 times in the same year.