1 cardboard cop = 2 real ones?

Just look at who’s turned up at my local supermarket. Yes its the cardboard copper herself, PC Anna Gaskell. As reported recently, Anna has been deployed to cut down on shoplifting.
When I clocked her at Tesco, she didn’t seem to have many ne’er do wells under lock and key. Standing by the doorway with a cheery smile she looked as if she was about to saunter out of the store but she didn’t even break into a jog when an elderly motorist crashed her car into the side of a shopper’s parked car.
Then again, neither did the flesh and blood coppers parked up in their big van. Proof of sorts I suppose that one paper PCs can be just as much use as two of the real thing.