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Devon and Cornwall Police are using drones in a bid to crackdown on speeding drivers in the region. The devices, which were first launched on Monday 3 April, will be targeting motorcyclists in particular after a spate of serious collisions last year saw around 200 riders either killed or badly injured. Continue reading
Through a contract worth as much as £1 billion ($1.2 billion), Tekever’s drones provide live-streamed video footage that helps law enforcement distinguish between passengers and traffickers. This has, according to the Home Office, led to “dozens of” convictions of smugglers. Continue reading
South Korea’s Coast Guard reports it will expand its use of drones for monitoring activities including targeting Chinese boats engaged in illegal fishing activities. The expansion of the program comes as there have been increasing reports of Chinese incursions into neighboring countries’ water and after North Korea deployed a squadron of drones over the South at the beginning of this year. Continue reading
One single sector of the southern border saw more than 10,000 illegal drone incursions from Mexico last year, a senior Border Patrol agent told Congress. Continue reading
The Border Patrol credited its eyes in the sky for leading agents to more than 50,000 immigrants who illegally crossed the border in the government’s most recent fiscal year. Continue reading
On September 30, Spain’s National Police tweeted that its EHang’s EH216 ‘is already flying!’ Continue reading
Drones with loudspeakers have been swooping between apartment blocks in China ordering people to stay inside under the world’s strictest lockdown. Continue reading