Davdirect wrote:

Then why require the law enforcement training? Wouldn't it be wiser to have an
experienced pilot than to have an experienced cop who has minimal hours?

If you were a police department what would you rather have.......

An experienced police officer who knew the lay of the land, had worked
the streets, understood exactly what was going on, and had been
trained to fly a helicopter as a police officer pilot.

OR...... An experienced helicopter pilot who had never made an arrest,
worked the streets, or knew what the boys and girls actually went
through down there on the ground...... but was now a sworn in police
officer with a gun at his hip.

What experience is more important to the police department.

If in their wisdom they were to hire YOU off the street and spend tens
of thousands of dollars and many hundreds of hours training YOU to be a
police officer and at the end actually give you a gun with all the
responsibility that it implies. then why wouldn't they take an
experienced police officer and spend tens of thousands of dollars and
hundreds of hours to train them to fly a helicopter with all the
responsibility that it implies.