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🇬🇧 POLICE DRONES THAT ARRIVE BEFORE HUMANS Before an officer even gets the call, a drone could already be watching. Under the “Drone as First Responder” program, machines will launch from rooftop boxes. Racing to incidents in under 2 minutes, streaming real-time footage straight to command centers. Officials say...

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Oak Brook Illinois police launch 1st fully autonomous drone in state; some concerned over privacy rights | Mark Rivera, ABC7 Cutting-edge drone technology is now online in metro Chicago. The Oak Brook Police Department is deploying a fully autonomous drone to assess situations, and, more often than not, beat uniformed officers to the scene. The newest eye in the sky is billed as a vital tool for everyone's safety. The first responder drone made by Flock Safety is housed on the top of the department, and sits at the ready to take flight in an instant anywhere in the 8 square miles of the village. "So, the drone to get to any scene within a minute and a half, they're going to get that real in-progress real-time information, video data, license plates, offender information and relay that in real time," Oak Brook Police Chief Brian Strockis said. He said the new technology is not seen anywhere else in Illinois. Inside the station, operators in their "new real-time crime center" can deploy the drone at their discretion, based on scanner traffic. It then flies at 200-400 feet above roads and red lights, without a human operator. Eventually, the drone will be able to deploy itself, based on specific emergency calls that come in. "It'll get there, nine times out of 10, before an officer will arrive. And it'll be the best camera angle and the best view of that situation, as it's evolving," Strockis said. Strockis said they've already seen strong results. "Just this week, the drone was deployed during a police chase ending in Lombard, helping Oak Brook police apprehend an offender. The drone the entire time was able to record that incident and follow the pursuit, relay information to officers on the ground, and that video evidence is going to be crucial in court," he said. But large questions still loom about oversight and the impact on civil liberties. While police departments throughout the country are interested in adding drones as first responders to their arsenal of investigative tools, Beryl Lipton, senior investigative Researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said citizens should be concerned about their privacy rights. "I think it's incredibly important for communities that are implementing drone as first responder programs to have clear policies around the types of features that are going to be actually used, and how the use of those features is going to be tracked," she said. "Right now, it's up to many police departments to determine themselves if they are using their drones in accordance with state law. Another important element for people to be considering is the retention period for the data that is being collected." Oak Brook police said they do not retain footage of calls unrelated to criminal investigations. Their investment in the new technology is a hefty $275,000 per year of the initial contract. Oak Brook's village president said this is still a more cost effective force multiplier. "As much as that is, it is actually still a smaller investment than adding a single beat officer to our round-the-clock shift," Larry Herman said. In addition to law enforcement drone use mandated reporting in Illinois law, the Oak Brook police said their drone's camera is not facing the ground en route to a call for service, and only swivels down when it gets to the call location. Read more:

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The Dallas Police Department’s new Drone as First Responder program officially launched today with eight remotely piloted drones based at Dallas Fire-Rescue stations across the City of Dallas. These drones are operated out of the Fusion/Real Time Crime Center and are designed to respond to calls for service in a two-mile radius from their base station. The base locations were selected based on heat maps of calls for service for both police and fire, placing them where they can potentially respond to the greatest number of calls. The pilots will be able to get to the scene quicker than in a squad car and begin to provide real-time intelligence and feedback to officers, as well as reduce the level of response or clear a call entirely if the incident has resolved. If a pilot sees a call in a drone’s response area where aerial intelligence can enhance officer safety, they can deploy a drone to provide critical updates to officers at the scene. Each drone is equipped with a thermal camera to help during nighttime operations, as well as a loudspeaker to make announcements to individuals on the ground. “I challenged our team to find innovative ways to continue improving our response times, and this new drone unit will not only keep officers free to respond to more calls, but provide real time updates as they are responding to calls,” said Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux. “Even during our training, our pilots were able to clear three holding calls in an hour with one drone. That alone proved their value to us, and I’m looking forward to seeing the benefits in both officer safety and response times.” Our public safety partners at Dallas Fire-Rescue will also be utilizing the Drone as First Responder program, with training for pilots underway. Under the new program, in the event of a reported structure fire, a drone will be dispatched to the scene ahead of arriving apparatus. This real-time aerial perspective will allow incident command to assess the size, scope, and intensity of a fire before firefighters even step off the apparatus. “Dallas Fire-Rescue is proud to collaborate with DPD on any initiative that will make our city safer,” said Justin Ball, Chief of Dallas Fire-Rescue. “By strategically docking the drones at our fire stations in high-demand areas, we are optimizing our response times and ensuring our tactics are more precise, while adding an extra layer of protection for the city.” This collaborative partnership between police and fire departments represents a major step forward in using smart-city technology to protect both residents and first responders.

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