What are `Emergency Services’ Helicopters ?
Mainly the Police and the Air Ambulance. Whilst the vast majority of people support the use of Helicopters where life is at risk, there is increasing nuisance from Police Helicopters being used on `routine’ matters – for example the Norfolk Police are reported to have dispatched a helicopter to police a `rave’, and Essex police to look for cannabis houses. It is suggested that policing of this sort could be accomplished just as readily by normal ground based policing methods.
