Skip navigation
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
with Open Source Research

Include the following technologies

Alpharetta 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 Alpharetta Police Department
Location Alpharetta, GA
Technology Drones
Vendor

The City of Alpharetta created a drone program for its police and fire departments between 2018 and 2020.

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