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HPD Equips New Tactical Unit With DJI Matrice 4 Drones
Houston’s police department has created a new tactical unit designed specifically to bridge the gap between street patrol and SWAT — and it’s flying DJI Matrice 4 Series drone as its primary aerial tools, as reported by Click 2 Houston.…
Doral Police Deploy Parrot ANAFI at Cadillac Championship
The Doral Police Department used last week’s return of the PGA Tour to Trump National Doral to debut its new drone unit under real operational pressure, as Local 10 reported. Two Parrot ANAFI UKR GOV drones took to the skies…
Singapore Bets on Drone Boxes for Island-Wide Public Safety
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency unveiled a two-tier drone box system on April 28 designed to put aerial response within reach of any incident on the island. The pitch is simple. Replace the hour it currently takes to…
LAPD Drones Challenge a 70-Year Helicopter Monopoly Above LA
The Los Angeles Police Department flew its drone-as-first-responder fleet more than 3,500 times in the program’s first year, according to a report headed to the Police Commission this week, as reported by Govtech. The fleet now plans to nearly triple,…
Airbus Flexrotor Takes Night Watch on Federal Wildfire Contract, Eyes Helicopter Hand-Off
Oregon-based firefighting operator Precision has integrated the Airbus Flexrotor into a federal wildfire contract, using the 25 kg (55 lb) uncrewed aircraft to fly continuous nighttime surveillance while crewed helicopter teams rest. Precision has operated the Flexrotor since 2014 and…
LAPD Skydio Drones Orbited No Kings Protest for Seven Hours, Flight Records Show
The Los Angeles Police Department used its Drone as First Responder program to surveil two major protests this year, flight records show. The department’s Skydio X10 drones began circling the March 28 No Kings rally in downtown Los Angeles at…
Drones Hit Record Number of UK Air Ambulance Missions
The UK Civil Aviation Authority confirmed nine air ambulance flights were disrupted by drones flying too close to helicopters during emergency missions in 2025. That’s the highest annual figure ever recorded, up from six cases in 2024 and eight in…
New Jersey Spray Drone Theft Ends With Recovery, But No Arrests as Federal Investigation Stays Open
New Jersey State Police have recovered all fifteen agricultural spray drones stolen from a Harrison warehouse last month, but the investigation is far from closed. The drones were found April 27 inside Prudent Corporation‘s storage facility in Dover, roughly 30…
Beijing’s Drone Ban Takes Effect Friday, Squeezing DJI On Its Home Turf
Beijing’s near-total ban on consumer drone sales and storage takes effect this Friday, May 1, with the deadline for existing drone owners to register their equipment with police falling on Wednesday, April 30. That gives Beijing residents three days to…
BRINC Drones Land in Victorville for $832K DFR Rollout
The City of Victorville just flipped the switch on a Drone as First Responder program with BRINC Drones, becoming the first contract city under the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to put DFR technology into the field, as Public CEO…
Cobb Police Deploy Skydio Drones to Track Murder Suspect in I-75 Corridor
Cobb County police responded to a shooting involving a murder suspect near Leland and Windy Hill roads on Tuesday afternoon, deploying drones alongside SWAT teams and K9 units to track Damian Strozier, 31, who fled after exchanging gunfire with officers,…
The $30,000 Drones That Cost Amazon $150 Million
Last month, we reported that three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Persian Gulf region went offline for weeks. Two were directly hit by Iranian Shahed drones in the United Arab Emirates. A third was damaged in Bahrain. The…