and when you look at this data (you have to scroll around to find the pdf) you can see the majority of sorties yields zero
I read it as twenty two sorties and five with a defined outcome.
The heli is part of a team. Its effectivness especially for night searches using thermal camera and searchlight usually enables fast resolutions to incidents that would otherwise require a significant number of ground personel.
A call to ground units from the air wing that there is no threat evident in many circumstances will enable those who felt under threat to sleep more soundly and the limited number of police on night duty to return to their curry.
This is hardly a zero yeild in my book.
One mans noise is anothers music?
Mickjoebill