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Anchorage police lay out rooftop first-responder drone plan, retainers and privacy limits
Summary
The Anchorage Police Department briefed a phased plan to use rooftop-mounted first-responder drones on high-risk calls, initially with three drones on contract and a broader plan that would require many more units to achieve full municipal coverage.
The Anchorage Police Department presented a policy to deploy rooftop-mounted "first-responder" drones that would provide live aerial feeds to officers on certain high-risk calls and support the department's real-time crime center. The chief said the department currently has a small drone program and an initial contract for three rooftop drones; he also said a fully functional citywide capability would require far more units (the chief cited a notional figure of roughly 23 to 26 drones to cover the municipality) (SEG 1371'SEG 1394). "3 right now we got on this contract," the chief said (SEG 1370).
Deployment priorities would be safety-first: shots-fired, missing/endangered persons, search-and-rescue, large disturbances and situations where…
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