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Nevada Highway Patrol: Drones

A police officer uses a remote control to fly a drone.
An example of a DJI police drone.
Credit: Dublin Police Department, OH
Agency Nevada Highway Patrol
Location Carson City, NV
Technology Drones
Vendor Yuneec, DJI

The Nevada Highway Patrol operated four Yuneec drones and one DJI as of 2021.

Links
Government information (Nevada Department of Public Safety)
Public records (Nevada Highway Patrol)
Academic report (Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College)
Other (www.reviewjournal.com)

More about this technology

Remote-controlled aerial vehicles that police use to gather footage from the sky.

A police officer uses a remote control to fly a drone.
An example of a DJI police drone.
Credit: Dublin Police Department, OH