Drones for use by the Police force

[wonwinglo]

Being evaluated today by the West Midlands police in the centre of Birmingham is a small vertical take off four motor counter torque drone,the idea is that the Drone sends back information to a laptop computer and can fly in very confined spaces and is portable.

The Drone is capable of being flown down streets and high above buildings to detect and monitor criminal activities,already tested by the Merseyside police force the cost of each unit is some £30,000

[Guest]

Barry,

Pics of the actual thing and videos can be found on the BBC News Website on the following links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6676809.stm

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=drone

Expensive Toys !! I wonder how many of these guys will turn out to be R/C Modellers at the end of it all.

Regards......Mark

[Guest]

pretty cool, but then whats wrong the the helecoptors they already have that have thermal and infa-red imaging equipment as well?

what do you think the rang/batter life of one of these is?

[Guest]

That's interesting but really will it actually help the coppers get of thier bums and do their job because they don't round my area.

[Guest]

Drones in the Police force? There has to be a joke there!!

[Guest]

definately !

if these drones can be used at night surely there is a need for lighting ? before you know it these things will be involved in some air traffic collisions !!!!!!!!!!!

[dynamite25]

To me they seem a waste of money to have as they won't be able to use them if it's slightly windy and kids would be trying to knock them out the sky.

[Guest]

Kids???