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there was only one aim, that of saving shed loads of money.
That might have been the aim, but they've failed on that as well. From the HMICFRS report:
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In 2008/09, the police service was operating 33 aircraft for an annual revenue cost of £45m, and initial calculations were that a national police air service could maintain a fleet of 29 helicopters for an annual revenue cost of £37.5m. In 2016/17, NPAS was operating 19 helicopters (with four fixed-wing aircraft still to come) with a revenue budget of £39.6m
Well if that's not grounds for going back to what we had before, nothing is!
How do we go about setting up a privatised service, outwith the Police, so that NPAS have no input, but charging the forces directly to give them value for money? Woodvale is still available, we could start off with just one force and see how we get on.
All it takes is one PCC to grow the balls to opt out of NPAS, on the basis of the figures above.