Let's get a few facts clear here.
Using a helicopter to take part in a stolen car chase does not make sense.
If you look at all those Police Action programmes they have taken it to joke level with police officers given nicknames.
A stolen car is an insurance issue not a police game.
Give the force toys and they will use them while at the same time not recognising the cost.
Each hour in the air is a few old fashioned policemen on the beat for a month.
Sure a few people here have issues because police aviation is a nice cushy number.
They want to keep sitting in that easy chair.
But the truth is just like those freeview channels filling time is the reality of NPAS.
90% boredom.
The boss needs to give stern warnings to the drivers ASAP