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Upper Arlington police present plan to buy public-safety drone and software for field operations
Summary
Council reviewed a proposal to buy a safety-operations drone and LiveOps software platform for the police division; staff said the unit includes thermal imaging, public-address and siren capability and a hardware-refresh warranty, and they plan public transparency reporting for flights.
Upper Arlington police described a planned purchase of a safety-operations drone and associated software at the June 9 council meeting, saying the system is purpose-built for law-enforcement field operations and will be used by trained officers for public-safety responses.
Lieutenant Messer and police staff said the selected vendor (Brink/BREX in the presentation) builds U.S.-based, public-safety-focused drones and a LiveOps software platform that logs flights and stores footage. Staff emphasized differences from the city’s existing public-works drone: the…
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