Tory calls for rethink to save police chopper
Published: 11/06/2012 14:00 - Updated: 11/06/2012 15:30
One of the candidates for Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner is calling for the authority to ‘look again’ at plans to close the county’s police helicopter base.
Conservative Bernard Rix says shutting the current base at RAF Henlow next year and moving the helicopters outside the county would leave residents, particularly in rural areas, at risk of not being reached in time during emergency situations.
One very interesting quote from the article;
“The whole proposal needs to be looked at again, the information isn’t in the public domain as much as it needs to be.”