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Our local police force use a helicopter, mostly for sightseeing we think, it costs us £600k+ a year in local taxes just to keep it there, before they turn a blade. they're not muppets, just pigs in space . . .our local newspaper reported that when they first got the thing they where chasing a 'robber' or local 'cad' . . .having deployed the use of its heat seeking device they homed in on said villian and landed in a field . . .to find a warm freshly laid pat. . . . . . to confirm the wisdon of the investment the said helicopter was then stranded in the field for several hours thereafter as the cows investigated and started licking the thing and wouldn't go away until further officers arrived, with a farmer, who wasn't scared, and shooed them away . . . . . there are other tales of woe, but I can't recall.
I wonder if a boffin somewhere could calculate the cost per head of West Sussex tax payer and compare against, say, a ticket to see a stand up comedian
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