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Alpena 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 Alpena County Sheriff's Office
Location Alpena, MI
Technology Drones
Vendor DJI

The Alpena County Sheriff's Office operated at least one drone as of 2020.

Links
Social media (Alpena County Sheriff's Office Facebook)
Academic report (Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College)
Other (www.thealpenanews.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