DFR gives us eyes so we're not walking into situations blind
One of the biggest challenges law enforcement faces is the unknown. When a drone gets there first – with a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program officers can have aerial support on every call. It keeps them safer and keeps the community safer, as they don’t lose suspects even when there are just a couple officers responding to a call.
- Flagging any available unit, signal 95, reference a
- LPR hit on 42-
- But sir, we do have a drone operator guy here
- if you wanna see him.
- One of the biggest challenges law enforcement faces is always the unknown.
- I think he's behind that tree.
- We never know what we're walking into before we get there.
- The drone provides us with a level of safety that we're not walking
- into a situation blindly, and we have eyes.
- Can you get eyes in on that window?
- That's him.
- He's got like a shower rod.
- I just sent it to your email, a live link.
- Knowing that there's now a tool that can get to my phone and see live is
- crucial.
- We've all heard the expression that a picture's worth a thousand words,
- but it's
- even better with real-time video of what's actually happening at
- the scene.
- When I got here, they were already out of the truck,
- and they said that the driver
- bailed out footing out here.
- We typically have just a couple deputies out there.
- So to set up a good perimeter is very hard.
- Directly above.
- To the right of that tree.
- To the right of this tree?
- Yeah. Let's see. Is he's went black.
- We don't lose people because we have a drone up in the sky to keep track of them.
- Without the drone or air support, we wouldn't have found him.
- 911, what is the location of your emergency?
- Residential burglary in progress near Fourth and Main. Suspect possibly armed.
- DFR1 launching now.
- ETA is one minute.
- Copy on the route.
- Unit four is 97.
- DFR1 is arriving on the scene. I have a visual on the
- suspect. Suspect just dropped an object.
- It could be a weapon.
- I believe it changes everything. It definitely makes our responses safer.
- Having something that can be on scene before we are, it,
- it's a game
- changer.
- [gentle music]
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