Miami Beach PD advances community safety with Drone as First Responder program
Miami Beach Police Department enhances tactical operations and community safety with real-time aerial intelligence, demonstrating the transformative potential of drone technology in law enforcement.
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- Right now we are at the Miami Beach Convention Center where Axon has their
- 2024 Axon Week hosted by the Miami Beach Police Department.
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- For us to have Axon choose Miami Beach has been amazing.
- From drones to vehicles, it's really been an
- all-encompassing tech fest, if you will, for public safety
- agencies from all over the world.
- The partnership between Axon
- and other technology groups like Skydio, the
- ability for them to listen to what our needs are and bring
- those two disparate systems together with the end goal
- of making the agency successful has been absolutely
- amazing for us.
- [upbeat music] The city of Miami Beach is actually a, a man-made
- island. We're only seven square miles.
- Our widest point is only about three-quarters of a mile.
- Uh, we deal with the challenges of 48 special
- event weekends
- a year, where we can swell from our 93,000
- to several hundred thousand over a weekend.
- Having our drones out there, being able to
- act as a force multiplier for our officers to
- augment what we're already doing at the patrol level
- and to increase and provide better actionable intelligence for
- our officers, and it's a, it's a phenomenal tool for us.
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- When Miami Beach Police Department w- was looking for, uh, partners
- in any type of technology solution,
- the responsiveness of any vendor is super
- critical for us. And with Skydio, I know I can pick up a phone and I
- can reach out to my customer success manager, I can reach out to one of our
- systems engineers and ask a question on the fly, "Hey,
- I'm running into this
- issue," or, "I've got that problem," and I'm not calling an 800
- number. We're Miami Beach. We have very high demands, and so far,
- Skydio's, they've hit their mark.
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