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San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office: 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 San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office
Location San Luis Obispo, CA
Technology Drones
Vendor DJI

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office operated seven DJI drones as of 2022.

Links
Annual report (San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office)
Academic report (Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College)
Other (safslo.org)

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