Plod chasing low key criminals using a helicopter is not cost effective.
If you bother to look at all the police action movies on satellite tv channels
99.% never show true major criminals being captured.
It's all young kids/minor crime car theft and bike chases.
The chase often fosters innocent people being injured though police induced accidents
With the contraction in police aviation operations we are seeing a decline in
the false alarms/mispers.
I'd like to see all UK police air operations being routed through the new ops system.