Irvine police are using drones to make missing person announcements in communities and have partnered with the Orange County Fire Authority for creative uses of the technology.
An announcement caught my attention in my own neighborhood last week. It was Irvine police searching for a missing man, thankfully found safe, but I was surprised to find out the message was coming from a drone.Sgt. Christopher Bees said their Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or UAS, are faster to deploy, less costly and easier to hear than a helicopter.
Street closures after accidents, locating a bobcat in someone's yard or a suspect on the run -- UASs can do all this and more. Thanks to the infrared capabilities of this UAS, while firefighters focused on putting out the flames on an incident in 2021 on the 261 Toll Road, officers located the arson suspect hiding in the bushes.
"That provides safety for our personnel. It gives us a broad spectrum of what we're doing and it gives the incident commander an overall image or idea of what's going on in the incident and that way, they're better able to manage the resources that are coming in, coming out," Granados said.
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