Drones as the First Responder

One of the biggest challenges any law enforcement agency has is keeping up with technology, but if you don’t do your best you’re “shooting yourself in the foot.” Technology is growing faster than we can keep up, but if we in law enforcement can fully embrace and leverage it, it can solve quite a few problems for us. It can reduce our manpower demand. It can cut our response times. It can increase the evidentiary value of our captured video no matter the source. There’s so much it can do… again, if we leverage it.

In this eHandbook titled, “Drones as the First Responder,” there are six insightful articles, as well as a host of useful resources. Drones as First Responder or “DFR” programs are growing nationwide and drones are seeing use in every mission from call confirmation to delivering first-aid supplies before human first responders can get on the scene.

Most of us became familiar with the term “drone” during the early years of the global war on terror and we all seemed to build an image in our mind of a miniature airplane looking thing. As years passed, the more common image brought to mind is that of a quad-copter. Reality is that a “drone” is any remote-controlled vehicle that we can put into an environment that is either unfriendly to us or that we simply can’t reach as quickly as a drone can. The drone can be on the water, underwater, in the air or on the ground. Heck, we even have drones shaped like dogs now.

It’s our hope that this eHandbook proves insightful and informative for you. If your agency doesn’t have a drone program or if it’s looking to stand up a DFR program, these articles are full of good information for you. Our sponsors are excellent follow-on sources for more information. As was said at the opening, if law enforcement can embrace and fully leverage drone technology, we can increase our presence and efficiency while limiting spending and risk.

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