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AeroVironment Introduces the Qube Small Unmanned Aircraft System for Public Safety Professionals

27 October 2011
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AeroVironment Introduces the Qube Small Unmanned Aircraft System for Public Safety Professionals

AeroVironment Introduces the Qube Small Unmanned Aircraft System for Public Safety Professionals; Announces Test and Evaluation Program • First solution tailored to law enforcement, first response and other public safety missions from the leading supplier of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) • Based on proven small UAS experience with hundreds of thousands of operating hours supporting U.S. and allied...

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Iran to use UAVs to guard its borders

3 October 2011
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Tehran: Iran has plans to equip all of its border areas with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within next few months, said Iran’s police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said on Sunday, Xinhua reported. In Tehran, nine remote-controlled drones have already been purchased, and ten others will be bought in the near future, Ahmadi-Moqaddam told reporters. The commander added that the police...

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Indian Police inducting UAS for anti terrorism patrols.

26 September 2011
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Indian Police inducting UAS for anti terrorism patrols.

  Indian Police are to start rolling out UAS to aid with jungle detection of terrorists reports the Times of India.  The police have previously trialed the  RQ-16 T Hawk. Honeywell had carried out live demonstration and trials for T-Hawk at the Counter-Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College in Kanker, Chattisgarh, in mid-April this year. Thereafter, a video demonstration of another...

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Canberra Police want to use UAS for vehicle surveillance.

22 September 2011
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Canberra Police want to use UAS for vehicle surveillance.

PETER JEAN of the Canberra Times reports Police have suggested that Canberra’s new point-to-point speed cameras be linked to unmanned aerial surveillance drones and used to track vehicles of interest to authorities. The first of the cameras, which use automated number plate recognition technology to calculate a car’s average speed and whether it is within the legal limit, are...

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Anti-Naxal operations: Hand-launched UAVs to be deployed

31 August 2011
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Anti-Naxal operations: Hand-launched UAVs to be deployed

Hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will soon be deployed in Naxal-hit zones of the country to provide security forces a close range surveillance of the ground terrain. Initially, two ‘mini’ UAVs are proposed to be deployed in Chhattisgarh and a border-area of Jharkhand to gather ground information for security forces before they embark on anti-Naxal operations and launch planned...

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NYPD May Employ Surveillance Drones reports Gay City News

12 August 2011
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By  DUNCAN OSBORNE  Heads up, park cruisers. The police department may soon be operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) “as a law enforcement tool” in New York City, giving that agency the capability to monitor activities in city parks, on streets, and in other public areas from the air. In January, Gay City News made a Freedom of Information request to...

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Insitu Inceptor

4 August 2011
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Insitu Inceptor

Insitu Inc. announced  that it has introduced the Inceptor small unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which will provide the public safety market with real-time video and stable, high-resolution imagery. The short-range tactical rotorcraft system can be available when first responders need it. Inceptor’s compact size fits in the trunk of a car and is easy to launch and recover in almost any...

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Insitu field new micro helicopter platform at ALEA 2011

25 July 2011
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Insitu field new micro helicopter platform at ALEA 2011

Working with Adaptive Flight, Insitu launched its Inteptor at ALEA 2011 the platform looks just like the Hornet. Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, last November announced that it had  made an equity investment in Adaptive Flight.  The investment, in part, was directed toward developing technologies that allow piloted and unpiloted aircraft to work together,...

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Privacy groups concerned at police drone reports Canberra Times

22 July 2011
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Privacy groups concerned at police drone reports Canberra Times

We can’t find out what they are proposing using but the framework for sUAS operation is well defined in Australia. There are very few sUAS being fielded by Police or Fire organisations in the UK and hardly any in the USA but they are still held up as regularly using UAS. The gap between reality and hype generated by...

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Haryana Police to consider sUAS purchase

8 June 2011
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Haryana Police to consider sUAS purchase

  The Times of India reports. PANCHKULA: Following the footsteps of UT police, Haryana police is also mulling over to procure unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for the force. Senior officials of Haryana police including ADGP (law and order) B S Sandhu on Tuesday witnessed the demonstration of an Israeli-made UAV ‘ Micro B ‘ at Sector-5 parade ground. Bangalore-based company officials...

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