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| Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami                                |
|   from the now-we-just-need-a-good-rigger dept.                    |
|   posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 26, @13:23 (Government)        |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/178204          |
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Catoonsis writes “Reuters is reporting that ‘Miami police could soon be
the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky
technology to beef up their fight against crime.’ The police force is
[0]planning to make use of a small aerial drone, capable of hovering and
quick maneuvers, to monitor the Miami-Dade area and alert officers of
potential problems. The device, manufactured by Honeywell, is awaiting
FAA approval before it can be put into use. This decision is just the
latest chapter in the developing relationship between law enforcement and
robotic assistants. ‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been flying
drones over the Arizona desert and southwest border with Mexico since
2006 and will soon deploy one in North Dakota to patrol the Canadian
border as well. This month, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Juan
Munoz Torres said the agency would also begin test flights of a modified
version of its large Predator B drones, built by General Atomics
Aeronautical Systems, over the Gulf of Mexico.’”

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Links:
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