Police involvement in RAF Air Accidents
I've been out of the air force for 15 years, now, but you never lose your interest in it, do you? (That's not the question I want answered!)
During my time I was, like most pilots, occasionally involved in BoIs into accidents and incidents, both as board member and as witness. We never had any involvement by the civilian police. Now it seems SOP. My question is: Why do they now routinely get involved? What changed and when? It seems a waste of police resources when the RAF BoI is running concurrently with the police investigation. I can't imagine they have sufficient technical knowledge (although if they are to investigate LIBOR fixing, I acknowledge they must have some clever people) and it doubles the burden on the witnesses and can delay the BoI getting their hands on the physical evidence.
I have no agenda, please let's have no rants for or against. I just want to know why a good system was changed.