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Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles Police Department
Location Los Angeles, CA
Technology Drones
Vendor Draganfly Innovations, DJI

The Los Angeles Police Department operates four drones as of 2014, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

More about this technology

Drones are also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. Police remotely control these devices to surveil crowds from above or locations that would otherwise be difficult or dangerous to observe by a human on the ground.

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