Home > News

Mexican City Finds Just One Police Drone Has Reduced Crime

By Laura Tucker
Mexican City Finds Just One Police Drone Has Reduced Crime Featured Image

There are so many possible uses for drones. A high-tech toy is just one of them. They can be used for deliveries and can also be used for surveillance. One city in Mexico has instituted the use of a police drone and have found that it has reduced crime in their city by ten percent.

Ensenada, Mexico

The city of Ensenada, Mexico. is using just one single quadcopter in their police work. It has reduced crime in their city by around ten percent. Burglaries have dropped in frequency even more. There’s been a thirty-percent drop.

Just south of the United States/Mexico border, this town has been using the DJ’s Inspired 1 quadcopter for only four months. And in that very short time, there has already been five-hundred arrests that the copter aided them in.

news-police-drones-crime-scene

It’s often being used when someone places an emergency call and goes out about twenty-five times a day in total. Equipped with a camera, every officer has the authorization to view its camera feed, whether they’re working in the police station or are out in the field.

The Effectiveness of Police Drones

The California firm of Cape has provided the software for the drone. Controlled by a remote, it often gets to a crime scene before the officers traveling by car. With the camera function, it allows the officers the chance to check the surroundings before they get there and maybe even follow a suspect so that they can’t escape.

Ensenada is about half a million people in size, and Chris Rittler, Cape’s CEO, says they would only need around a dozen quadcopters to cover the entire city. They can monitor better than a fixed security camera and are more cost-effective than cameras on a helicopter.

Police drones are in use in other areas of the world as well. Devon and Cornwall Police and Dorset Police, worked together last year to launch a drone unit to help them with missing person searches, getting images of crime scenes and traffic accidents, and searches to control wildlife crime. They use the same drone as Ensenada. Police in France use drones to catch speeders.

news-police-drones-quadcopter

Recently a drone helped rescuers in Hawaii save a person from a situation with lava flow on the move. And in the U.K. one was used to help locate the victim of a car crash who’d left his vehicle.

The Future of the Technology

The drone company has teamed up with the law enforcement company Axon to provide the drones to law enforcement agencies around the world. Axon will promote DJI’s Phantom 4 Pro and Matrice 210 drones to help with crime the same way the drone has been used in Ensenada and in these other areas throughout the world.

At a future point in time Amazon has discussed using mini drones that would follow officers and help them with their other police work.

It’s definitely great to see technology being so beneficial. Would you welcome the police drone technology in the city where you live? Would you be comfortable seeing drones in the air, knowing they’re out on police work? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Subscribe to our newsletter!

Our latest tutorials delivered straight to your inbox

Laura Tucker Avatar
Laura Tucker
Laura has spent more than 20 years writing news, reviews, and op-eds, with the majority of those years as an editor as well. She has exclusively used Apple products for the past 35 years. In addition to writing and editing at MTE, she also runs the site’s sponsored review program.

Read next

When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.
From below of blue starry sky over radio telescope and trees with leaves
The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which hydrogen atoms vibrate across the universe, because Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison had argued years earlier that any species trying to be found would broadcast on that channel — and then, for 72 seconds, something did.
In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe
Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889, setting the pension age at 70 after years of fighting socialists with bans, laws, and a promise few workers would live long enough to use
When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.
When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.
A contemplative scene with two scientists in a vintage laboratory setting.
When Harvard astronomer Cecilia Payne submitted her 1925 doctoral thesis arguing that the Sun was made almost entirely of hydrogen, the field’s senior figure Henry Norris Russell talked her into adding a line calling the result ‘almost certainly not real,’ and then published the same conclusion himself four years later to widespread acclaim.
When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.