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Reference:
2010/3858
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Question by:
Victoria Borwick
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Meeting date:
17 October 2010
A 1990s Home Office report looked at a comparison between airborne and foot assets and found that airborne resources were by far the most efficient. - Therefore, since the London Met's strategy has been to successfully find more long term, efficient ways of preventing costly crime, should we be concerned by a national policy reducing the number of police helicopters? - For example, should we concerned in light of the fact that air police are finding more and more cannabis farms; and drugs are known to play a key role in organised and unorganised crime? '