CBS, spot on. As an outside observer I don't get it. They operate an expensive twin with all the necessary support and, as far as I can see, either spend their time buzzing around like the keystone cops with the nightsun on trying to follow a scrote in a stolen car, and IF they do manage to catch them it really doesn't matter as the guy will be out the next night doing it again. Or they are over the city filming a crowd in case somebody does something wrong and they may have it on tape.
I believe that there is an argument for a level of air support, but they really don't need all the toys that they have at the moment.
I know that if you are in the job you will see it differently, as its how you make your living and turkeys don't vote for Christmas, but as a tax payer all I see are big boys toys.
A few years ago the local plod boasted that in the last couple of years the helo had helped recover over 200K of stolen goods, the machine must have cost a few million in that time!