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Oceanside Police Department: 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 Oceanside Police Department
Location Oceanside, CA
Technology Drones
Vendor DJI, Autel Robotics, Parrot

The Oceanside Police Department operated 15 drones as of 2024.

Links
Annual report (Oceanside Police Department)
Annual report (City of Oceanside)
Academic report (Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College)
Other (www.ci.oceanside.ca.us)

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