with all due respect to Black Adder and General Melchet.......
this thread has drifted off into a discussion about the viability or efficacy of Police Aviation in the UK. Interesting, but a little irrelevant with all due respect.....
It is not what the title points to. Suggest we separate that discussion from the discussion surrounding two pilots, a discussion which I believe should be widened beyond Police Avn, beyond the Glasgow incident and expanded into a professional discourse across all night ops requirements in RW.
Or, will we behave exactly the same after another accident as we have always behaved? Will that solve it???
OR in the words of the great General Melchet when questioned if the secret plan was to jump up over the trenches and run screaming at the enemy like the last 17 times: "Precisely.....the enemy will never suspect we will do the exact same thing for the 18th time....."
Is that what we are doing here?