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Old 28th Feb 2015, 09:24
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John Eacott
 
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Romeopapa,

You have made your point (futile as it is) ad infinitum and are becoming a tedious troll. I'd suggest a break, or go to the Avalon Airshow and relax.

Meanwhile the issue of law enforcement is to do just that, both to apprehend criminals and to discourage others from offending by enforcing the law. Cherry picking statistics (from Twitter, for goodness sake!) achieves nothing in the face of contributions from experienced and knowledgeable professionals.

Using a helicopter as an airborne divvy van has been and gone in Victoria (ASTRO, as it was known) as it was essentially a Melbourne-centric service. The UK has had such success with a similar concept that the bean counters seem to have forgotten such problems as ram raids (which were both financially and socially expensive) that have been all but stopped by good policing including the use of Polair helicopters.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
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