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Drones in Tactical Crisis Response

Drones significantly impact policing during a tactical crisis response. In the past, any type of aerial reconnaissance or surveillance was only afforded to larger metropolitan police agencies that ope...

Technology

Innovative Tools or Torments?

Drones are a modern police technology frequently used and relied upon to tackle a range of law enforcement tasks. A wide range of missions are levied by police on these intriguing aerial systems, whi...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Soaring to Success

Today, many agencies are using or considering drones to help in crash and crime investigations. Drones are an increasingly important tool; however, they can’t entirely replace other scene documentat...

Exposition

Exposition: October 2022

Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacturers a...

Product Feature

Product Feature: The Evolution of Drones in Law Enforcement

Although originally built for military purposes, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have increasingly become a common part of everyday life. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), there...

Exposition

Exposition: May 2022

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Drones as Force Multipliers

Just before 10 p.m. on August 24, 2017, a Wilmington, Delaware, police officer and an agent with Delaware Probation and Parole were in the 1700 block of Tulip Street when a subject fired gunshots in t...