Police, fire, and search-and-rescue teams putting drones to work when minutes matter.
St. Charles County, Missouri just passed the ordinance it needed to get drones over emergency calls. The county council approved a measure allowing the St. Charles County Police Department to establish memorandums of understanding with schools, municipal facilities, and other local partners willing to host drone docking stations, as reported by Spectrum Local News. The…
The St. Petersburg Police Department has activated a rooftop Drone Hive at its headquarters — three Skydio X10 drones docked and ready to launch within seconds of a priority call. Chief Anthony Holloway announced the expansion this week, and the numbers behind it are already making a case for what comes next, as reported by…
Houston's PD has created a new unit designed to bridge the gap between street patrol and SWAT — and it's flying DJI Matrice 4 Series drone
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 over the Cadillac Championship as officers tested real-time aerial surveillance in front of tens of…
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 get a police drone to a scene with near-instant deployment from boxes pre-positioned across Singapore,…
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, growing from 9 to 24 aircraft, with a $1.2 million Police Foundation donation funding part…
Oregon operator Precision has flown the Airbus Flexrotor on wildfire contracts since 2014, now under a federal contract watching fires overnight.
LAPD Skydio drones orbited the March 28 No Kings protest for seven hours, flight records show — starting three hours before any dispersal order was issued.
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