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Old 1st Jul 2006, 13:33
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Droopy
 
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Could be expensive....most units' police observers have the discretion to turn down tasking requests on the grounds of being inappropriate use of the resource; we turn down about 75% of requests that come in because there simply isn't an air support angle to the task and I doubt we're exceptional.

If you remove that discretion and offer what is essentially an airborne CCTV service - phone rings so off we go - then the budget would be out of control in a few months. True, the camera/radio operators might be a little more technically skilled but that's not really the point - it's about appropriate use of the resource.
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