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Alabama SBI describes drones’ role in crime scene mapping, search and rescue
Summary
Agent Joe Hamilton, a sworn agent with the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation, told the Joint Interim Committees that the bureau relies on drones for routine and high‑risk operations and that the technology has materially changed how scenes are processed.
Agent Joe Hamilton, a sworn agent with the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation, told the Joint Interim Committees that the bureau relies on drones for routine and high‑risk operations and that the technology has materially changed how scenes are processed.
"We run about 2,100 to 2,200 law enforcement missions a year," Hamilton said, identifying DJI platforms as the program’s primary hardware and noting the unit has 23 sworn operators and 46 drones covering all 67 counties.
Hamilton described a range of missions: traffic‑homicide investigations that previously took four to six hours but now can be processed in 20–30 minutes, SWAT overwatch, search and rescue, narcotics investigations and…
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