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Skydio, BRINC and a Robot Dog Join Louisiana Patrols
A district attorney in Louisiana is doing something most prosecutors never touch. He’s buying the drones. Tony Clayton wants 911 response on the west bank of the Mississippi to fall from minutes to seconds, and he’s funding a three-year program…
St. Louis OKs Six BRINC Drones Amid ‘Rushed’ Vote
St. Louis is getting six police drones, and how the city approved them says as much as the program itself. On Wednesday its Board of Police Commissioners signed off on a Drone as First Responder program built on BRINC hardware,…
Wyoming PD Goes from One Drone to Three on $26K Vote
The Wyoming Police Department is going from one drone to three. The Wyoming City Council approved $26,226 for two new aircraft on May 18 in a 5-1 vote, with one council member dissenting on surveillance grounds. The department flew its…
NYPD Spends $6.5M To Stand Up Counter-Drone Unit Built To Outlast The World Cup
The New York City Police Department now has trained officers and certified equipment to electronically disable hostile drones in city airspace, a capability reserved until December for a small group of federal agencies. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the department…
Nashville Police Launch 45-Day Skydio DFR Pilot
The Metro Nashville Police Department started flying drones over the Madison precinct on Tuesday, May 26, the first day of a Drone as First Responder trial that will run up to 45 flight days. Three Skydio aircraft are involved, on…
Dallas PD Drone Saves Man From I-45 a Day After DFR Launch
The Dallas Police Department’s new Drone as First Responder program made its first save on Thursday afternoon, one day after the program went live. A man was walking into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 45, a Skydio drone reached him before…
Alaska Drone Module Tracks Spot Fires To Contain Sawmill Creek Blaze At 14.8 Acres
The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP) used its Unmanned Aerial Systems Module to identify hot spots and spot fires across the Gerstle River during the Sawmill Creek Fire, helping ground crews achieve 100 percent containment four days…
Durham Police DJI Drone Locates Wanted Suspect In Pickering Greenspace
A Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) drone operator located a suspect with outstanding warrants for violent offences in under 20 minutes on May 9, 2026, after the man fled a disturbance call in Pickering, Ontario and hid in a green…
LOC8 Plus Skydio Run Coconino’s AI Search Engine
The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office in Flagstaff, Arizona is using the latest AI-capable Skydio drones with the LOC8 G2 image-analysis platform to compress search and rescue photo review from thousands of drone images down to about twenty per mission. The…
Eight Skydio Drones Now Fly Dallas 911 Calls
The Dallas Police Department officially launched its Drone as First Responder program on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, deploying eight remotely piloted Skydio aircraft from Dallas Fire-Rescue stations across the city. Each drone covers a two-mile radius from its base, with…
DJI Matrice 300 Recovers Stolen Telehandler
A police drone operator with Nottinghamshire Police located a stolen telehandler hidden under trees near the A46 on May 20, 2026, using a DJI Matrice 300 RTK, five days after the bright-yellow machine had been reported missing from Hawton near…
Vanderbilt’s Campus DFR Goes Live With Skydio X10
Vanderbilt University Public Safety has launched a drone first-responder program for its Nashville campus, with installation and personnel training completed in April 2026 and initial operations conducted during Commencement week. The fleet is built on Skydio X10 platforms, equipped with…