90% of the time it is an incident such as this from Humberside yesterday.
THE POLICE helicopter was deployed to Brigg following reports of a possible disturbance.
The incident happened at about 11.50am yesterday (Saturday, February 21).
On arrival "all appeared to be in order".
The incident was reported on the Humberside Police helicopter's Twitter feed.
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Police helicopter called to reports of disturbance in Brigg - but nothing found | Scunthorpe Telegraph
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The above happens day in day out. I understand a handful of pilots want to carry on wasting public money but the new system makes more sense
Romeo papa,
How can you say that that is a waste of tax payers money from one 140 character tweet?
Did you read the incident log?
Do you know how many ground based resources were available?
Do you know how close they were? Their response times?
How was the disturbance reported in the initial call?
Was a name given and were they 'known' to the police? Flagged on the PNC?
How serious the control room inspector took it?
Dale Cregan, Michael Ryan, Raoul Moat, Derrick Bird......all started out as a 'disturbance' and resulted in people dying.
Would you, as the person in charge, send in an unarmed bobby first, or send over the helicopter to have a quick look / risk assessment?
P.S. please can you tell me which report or survey the 90% figure comes from?