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Old 11th Jul 2015, 13:34
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if NPAS wasn't created, its likely that approx 10 bases would have shut anyway. That would have meant no air support at all available to those forces.

At least under NPAS, some form of air support is still available - albeit it slower to arrive than previously.

My point was that borderless policing now exists, where it didn't before. Previously, Surrey for example would ask for an aircraft and if it was busy or offline, then nothing was available. Now if that's the case, NPAS can utilise Bournemouth, Benson, Lippits, Boreham...

London used to only have their own aircraft, but now surrounding choppers are covering plenty of jobs - Some will say thats a bad thing, but that's subjective. The bottom line is, if there's a task that warrants a helicopter, there's more likelyhood of getting one with borderless policing.
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