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Prentiss 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 Prentiss County Sheriff's Office
Location Booneville, MS
Technology Drones
Vendor

The Prentiss County Sheriff's Office's Department operates one drone as of 2016, 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