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MaxR;
I'm not involved in police aviation so please forgive me if this is a stupid question but are you guys saying that this service costs more than the one it replaced, achieves less than the one it replaced, can't get its facts straight about the money it spends, the number of aircraft it has or the amount of cover it gives and no-one cares but you? Politicians, senior police officers, PCCs, no-one?
Is that really what you're saying?
To put it into 'who cares' figures Max, there are 4 dedicated threads to this topic, in reality it is one large thread in 4 chunks on PPRuNe;
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/397...dget-cuts.html
posts 2,139
views 222,195
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/473...ad-mk-2-a.html
posts 961
views 138,191
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/524...ad-mk-3-a.html
posts 256
views 84,208
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/527...ad-mk-4-a.html
posts 457
views 888,354
That's a total of 3,813 posts and 1,332,948 views.
This makes it the most
replied to thread on Rotorheads (and second most
viewed thread on Rotorheads, only just topped by 'Bristows')
As it stands in the ratings for the whole of the PPRuNe website, looking at the first 3 pages of every forum on PPRuNe, (i.e. most current & active threads) it is the second highest thread for views and posts behind the
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...tact-lost.html thread.
The country's Policing and Crime Commissioners (PCC's) & Chief Constables (CC's) meeting with NPAS programmed for later this month has apparently been postponed, coincidentally the Met have no plans to join PNAS anytime in the near future. With this meeting in mind, I wonder how many of the PCC's and CC's had visited their local/regional air support units, in preparation for the meeting?
At some time in the near future there will be this rescheduled meeting for the PCC's & CC's to discuss no doubt amongst other items, further cuts. Isn't it ironic that helicopter support for the country may be further reduced from the original 33 helicopters down to possibly 18 or even 11, supplemented with 6 fixed wing. Elsewhere dog sections, firearms, traffic etc etc, you know … those front line positions, have been merging and cutting back, all in the name of savings, yet despite this, in England & Wales (PNAS operating area) we still have
41 Chief Constables, and we also have
41 PCC's that replaced the
41 Police Authorities and some of these PCC's offices cost more than the Authorities that they replaced.
BBC News - Four of six East PCCs 'cost more' than police authorities.
To sum up Max, there does actually appear to be a great deal of interest in the subject of 'police air operations in the UK', where it is going & how it's getting there, but with who and where that interest lies, is perhaps worthy of its own thread!