OK, just to clarify a couple of points regarding the casevac on this weeks Skycops programme.
The crew were asked to assist as the Air Ambulance was not available. A Police helicopter is a Police Helicopter. It is not an Air Ambulance and it is not a HEMS operation. There are differences.
A Police helicopter may carry out a casevac, a casevac being:
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Casevac
A flight, the purpose of which, is to give immediate assistance to a sick or injured person in life threatening circumstances.
Therefore, the crew have to ascertain whether there are life threatening circumstances. Now, to my limited experience of first aid situations, nobody is going to die just because his foot's half hanging off!
However, that's beside the point. The crew were being filmed for a TV programme, so they have to be seen to be playing by the rules. Oh, and by the way, it's not the bobbies that the CAA are going to be asking questions of, it's the pilot. Anyway, the paramedic is asked, and gives his opinion that the situation is life threatening, and the jobs a good un, and off they go to the hospital.
Anyway, don't believe everything that you see on the telly. That's why the 902 sounds like a Jetranger/Bell 47/R22(something with only 2 blades anyway), shots of the aircraft airbourne show engine instruments at zero, and the seasons were changing from shot to shot on the way back to base!!