The California Highway Patrol mostly uses—or used, as of 10-ish years ago—206s. I know this because a member of my flying club was a patrolman who was trying t

The California Highway Patrol mostly uses—or used, as of 10-ish years ago—206s. I know this because a member of my flying club was a patrolman who was trying to get enough hours in a C206 to switch to aerial patrols. We went on a couple of mountain flying trips to Colorado together. According to him, the state much preferred to take cops and turn them into pilots, than to take pilots and turn them into cops. But anyone who wanted to go that route had to pay for their own flight time. (Commercial rating requires 250 hours, and I think they wanted at least a hundred hours "time in type." I don't think they required an ATP rating, but my recollection about that could be incorrect.)