Fly for Fun! - 10/10:
Its interesting that both the dreadful Hungerford, and the much more recent Cumbria shootings occured without the immediacy of Air support. Hungerford because back then, it was simply before such a resourse became available, and Cumbria, because the force did not have its own air support, & presumably whatever the arrangements were with its neighbours, it took longer to get it in.
"Fly for Fun" is 100% right when he says the whole secret of success of Air Support is in its speed of arrival, AND that arrival must be an arrival with enough fuel reserves to do something apart from seeking somewhere to refuel!
Yet it is in those very rural areas that the plans appear to accept a delay in response, as being an acceptable result of a drive to save money.
I do not think our rural citizens will be happy with that, especially when you consider that for the most part they have already lost their rural Police stations.
Tigerfish
Last edited by tigerfish; 11th Jun 2010 at 11:55.