Brassed Off
They (helicopters) cost millions yet a security guard costs round £10-15,000 a year and most would welcome the chance to sit airside "guarding" the Poli$e helicopter.
A PCSO in the West Midlands is on £18k and we all know what a lot of people think about PCSOs.
https://www.west-midlands.police.uk/...cso_powers.asp
Do you honestly expect us to believe that the tax paying residents of the West Midlands are going to be happy paying the same sort of money for someone, and his two or three colleagues, just sit in a hut watching a helicopter, within the boundries of an International Airport which already has 'civilian' and armed police security etc etc!
Not only are you having a giraffe....you are having the whole safari park!