San Mateo PD K9 units acclimate to indoor drones at Skydio HQ
San Mateo PD brought its K9 units to Skydio's headquarters to get dogs comfortable working alongside the R10 indoor drone. The training helps K9 and drone teams search buildings together safely, with the drone providing an added layer of awareness to help protect both officers and their dogs.
- [instrumental music]
- ... today, police dogs underwent special training to
- acquaint them with a new
- type of technology, indoor police drones.
- It's the latest tool many agencies are rolling out now to keep officers and
- their K9 companions safe. The goal is to send a drone into an
- emergency so it can keep an eye on the dog and spot potential
- threats.
- We need them to work together in collaboration.
- So this is an important thing, 'cause sometimes we'll be searching a
- building for
- someone or, or anything, and we need the dog to work right next to
- the drone.
- Unless you expose them to that, there could be some issues they could
- face.
- And when you're in a live event where we're actually working our dogs in a
- police
- environment, we want no issues to come about.
- Today's training took place inside public safety drone company
- Skydio's San Mateo office. More than 5,000 US
- agencies use the company's technology, including the San Francisco Police
- Department. Hmm.
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