Originally Posted by Droopy
. 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.
What does out of hours mean by the way.. do you mean calling the a/c out during offline times.. assuming the ASU isnt 24 hour working. Not sure what the relevance is.
I dont agree on the funding arguement either, theres a BIG difference between charitable funding and Police funding.. in that the charity funding is only as good as the fundraisers, and they come and go. In a perfect world the government would pay for AAs, but thats not the case at the moment, they have much more important things to spend it on
The roles are greatly different, as far as the pax / crew (whatever you want to call them) are concerned. Im sure 2 Police observers are far more effective together, than 1 police / paramedic... and vice versa for the AAs.