Happy to be corrected on this one, those 2 forces were collaborative partners of force helicopters rather than the single county owned and operated model. Will be interesting to see how their usage of flight hours changes compared to that of the single owner/operators. 2 counties near me have both dropped their flying hour requirements since closing their own operations. One force was flying 750 pa prior and now requires/budgets for 500, that with the nearest aircraft (if not on a job in the other 2 counties) at least 20 minutes away, someone worked hard to find out which 250 hours were being wasted year after year.........
Amongst its many requirements, NPAS requires statistics about every aspect of the operations and finances, these will in due course be availible for scrutiny and will prove the savings of both wasted flying hours (prior to NPAS) and money.