Drone-as-first-responder programs, pursuit footage, evidence policy, and the departments putting UAS on patrol.
Nobody handed the OTUS Project a research budget and a lab. Three friends on a midnight phone call in February 2024 decided to build drones from scratch and fly them into one of the most violent forces on Earth. Less than three months later, Louis Tucker flew the first drone inside a tornado. History made.…
A woman passed counterfeit bills at three businesses on Cerrillos Road. Instead of sending a patrol officer to drive the corridor looking for her, Santa Fe police clicked a mouse and put a Skydio X10 in the air, as Santa Fe New Mexican reported. Two minutes after launch, the drone was hovering above the intersection…
Officers from the 3rd Division responded and launched a Skydio X10 within minutes. The suspect was already gone. It did not matter.
Fairfax County, Virginia is not testing the waters on Drone as First Responder. The numbers from their first 100 missions make the case better than any press release could. Drones arrived on scene first in 71 of those 100 calls. Average response time: 83 seconds. In a county that sits inside the most restricted airspace…
The ask is direct: $650,000, two robotic dogs, two high-risk units. The Wichita Police Department brought the request to the Wichita City Council on March 3, 2026, with one quadruped robot earmarked for the SWAT team and a second for the bomb squad. What separates these from the robots WPD already operates is mobility, specifically…
Santa Fe first responders located a 47-year-old man unconscious and not breathing near Las Acequias Park after receiving a call Wednesday afternoon.
Warren, Michigan did not test the waters. When the city decided to launch a Drone as First Responder program, it built one that covers both police and fire response simultaneously, funded by a millage voters passed in November, and it went fully operational on March 5. It is the first program of its kind in…
The Safer Skies Act is now law, giving trained law enforcement counter-drone authority at amusement parks. But the FAA's Section 2209 rulemaking will determine whether permanent airspace restrictions follow. Here's what Part 107 pilots need to watch.
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