Police Pilots and IRs - The cops don't like IRs because they cost too much to get and to maintain so they make do without and pretend that inadvertant flight into IMC doesn't happen - despite one EC 135 drivers bad experience in Strathclyde a few years back.
...and the pilot of that aircraft had an instrument rating
skyhigh ulster, when you've finished sorting out the police helicopter you can then get onto sorting out the fire brigade, they keep loads and loads of big red fire engines sat in the fire station when they're not fighting fires. that can't be good utilisaton for an expensive machine like a fire engine....