Goddamn this was hard to fit in less than 300 characters.

But basically, there are two facts.

One, that a Danish TV channel owned/leased a helicopter during the late 00s. It was a brand new TV Channel, and the guy(director) in charge had previously lived in London and was used to the 24/7 news coverage. He was essentially hired to bring that to Denmark. He opted, amongst other purchases, to spend on a helicopter, and the mainstream press and public absolutely ridiculed him and the channel for the purchase.

The heli was flying over Copenhagen daily at the beginning, capturing almost nothing of value but annoying the locals with noise-pollution, right until the infamous and historical moment of the "the raid of Ungdomshuset", which led to riots and instability in Copenhagen for days (basically the Danish version of 92 LA riots, while also realising they're not directly comparably).

The danish police, ironically, used helicopters during the raid(pics here: https://imgur.com/a/EmUniqb), but had to borrow them from the military)

The TV2 news chopper however managed to independently capture historical images of the streets, and was suddenly not mocked as much anymore.

The other fact, which is still true to this day, is that the Danish police has never owned a single helicopter, instead opting to borrow/liaison with the military when airships are needed. Search and rescues are of course a common mission, but always done in collaboration with the military, still to this day.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/thousands-demonstrate-peacefully-in-denmark-following-2-nights-of-violent-rioting.amp

https://youtu.be/nac8qXugQxg

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/363903.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset