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LAPD tells Public Safety Committee its robot dog was used in four 2024–25 deployments; committee notes report
Summary
At a Jan. 28 Public Safety Committee meeting, Deputy Chief David Kowalski summarized four deployments of the LAPD’s quadruped unmanned ground vehicle during FY 2024–25; the committee voted 4–0 to note and file the Board of Police Commissioners’ inspection report.
Deputy Chief David Kowalski told the Los Angeles Public Safety Committee on Jan. 28 that the department deployed its quadruped unmanned ground vehicle (QUGV) in four incidents during the inspection period covering July 4, 2024, through June 30, 2025, and that each deployment met the department’s deployment criteria dated May 30, 2023.
Kowalski described varied outcomes across the four deployments. In one case the QUGV opened a door and allowed officers to take a suspect into custody without…
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