Patrol-led DFR deployment by Oklahoma City PD thwarts burglars
Watch as an Oklahoma Police Department patrol using a patrol-deployed Skydio drone spots three burglary suspects trying to escape to the roof,
Learn more about Skydio Drone as First Responder (DFR).
- Oklahoma City 911. What's your emergency?
- Yeah, they're busting the window to the old
- school, which should be surrounded with
- a fence that they're not supposed to go into.
- There's gonna be people inside the building, inside busting windows.
- 23 minutes after the initial 911 phone call, the drone was
- deployed.
- Unknown number of subjects. Weapons are unknown.
- Do you have infrared on that?
- Yeah, I do.
- You may just start flying through some of these windows, uh, second and third
- floor, see if you pick up any heat signatures.
- It may be nothing, but there's a little bit of a heat
- signature on
- the third window, um, on the north side.
- I can't quite tell what it is. You guys are passing it right now.
- Looks clear over here.
- Upon deploying the drone, finds the subjects actually on the roof.
- Y'all on the roof.
- No, only him on the roof.
- You got something up there?
- Yeah, I've got three people on the roof.
- He finds the heat signature. The suspects are coming out of a roof
- port. He's able to direct the officers on the
- ground.
- Looks like they're walking towards the north side.
- This is a huge building. They ended up finding a different roof
- hatch.
- As soon as the suspects recognize the officers, all three
- of them are standing there with their hands in the air.
- We got three up here on the roof.
- Great job.
- How many people were with you all together, though?
- Three.
- There were three of you all together?
- Mm-hmm.
- So there just happened to be, like, other people in the building with you?
- 'Cause we've caught other people already.
- Come out. Get your hands
- up.
- As they're in custody, they were very amazed and
- had no idea that the police department had the use of drones.
- [upbeat music]
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