So will someone please tell me how with a thirty percent reduction in a/c (and staff) there will NOT be reduction in provision for the Officers on the ground??
Perhaps by sensible positioning of bases and deployment descisions remaining with the units themselves and not being made 'centrally'.
Have we been doing thing SO badly, that someone is going to come with a magic wand, and make everyone perform 30% more efficiently than we do now.?
Maybe, just maybe, if someone was to make a retrospective audit, we would find out that everthing that was done in the past was wasteful and not very well coordinated.
The reality is, that major incidents will always see an a/c.
Murders and high profile searches will always see an a/c
Major firearms jobs will always see an a/c
(just like now)
Absolutely, and so they should.
Officers chasing a suspect thru gardens WONT get an a/c
Stolen motorbikes razzing around school fields WONT get an a/c
Intruders on at commercial properties WONT get an a/c
ie actual police work where collars get felt... WONT get an a/c
I would have to disagree and say that as long as the deployment descisions were left at unit level, these tasks would still go ahead...as they are now, under the regional shadow services that are going on as we speak!
because too few a/c have too far to travel and are spread too thinly to be effective.
Unless positioning of bases is looked at sensibly.
Lets not forget that the 20 minute circle is from where the aircraft is and not neccesarily where the ac is based!
We are about to become the PCSO's of the sky.. nice to see around but cock all use
That comment is simply an insult to everyone involved in air support
