While taking nothing away from the sterling effort they provide (before anyone gets upset), and recognizing the fact that they go in harm's way, I think the inclusion of "squadrons" that do no operate any form of "flying machine" (be it fixed wing, rotary or UAV), e.g. a "policing squadron", in the overall total of "RAF Squadrons" is merely a way of not making the statistics look as bad as they really are - the cupboard is pretty well bare these days!