Technology comes with excellent capabilities that law enforcement agencies can leverage for the certainty of safer and secure neighborhoods. Drones are among the few technologies that law enforcement agencies could use to alleviate many of the challenges they face in their ordinary duties. Enhanced drones could help ease the work of law enforcement agencies while ensuring improved effectiveness. These drones will facilitate for a prior assessment of distress calls and ensure police officers are adequately prepared for the situation before moving to a scene.
Citizens have a long history of making distress calls on police out of anxiety, only officers to realize that there was no real or genuine cause of alarm. Majorly, these incidents involve residents calling the police on suspicious persons spotted in neighborhoods. The police are on record for aggressive responses to superfluous distress calls, some of which arouse public anxiety because they are considered add-ons on biased policing against blacks.
Enhanced drones with the capability to respond to distress calls will take pictures, record videos, and transmit the information to law enforcement agencies. This will go a long way in improving the police patrol experience and effectiveness. Police officers will only need to respond based on these enhanced drones’ feedback once the proposal is actualized. The new technology will help improve policing and create a positive public image of law enforcement agencies.
The police patrol drones will have the capability to relay data from distress call scenes and prompt necessary actions, which renders them unique from the ordinary unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For a start, these crewless systems will not exhibit combat capabilities because that could be disastrous. Rather, they will only aide police patrols and responses. The proposed UAVs will require the incorporation of current drone technology, GPS systems, and communication links with police officers on patrol into a single design.
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