Hi kevin and welcome.
UK police operate under different rules to you. We are NOT SAR capable neither are we encouraged/expected to go out and save lives. We do - by accident but that is the only exemption. Anything on a national level would be run by the Military.
Civvy operators (od which we are one) operating under 'commercial' legislation can only operate under their own remit and not 'stray' outside their field of expertise.
Plus we don't get many hurricanes
