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Ridgewood 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 Ridgewood Police Department
Location Ridgewood, NJ
Technology Drones
Vendor

The Ridgewood Police Department purchased a drone in 2021 for $9,197.

Links
Meeting documents (Village of Ridgewood)
Social media (Ridgewood Police Department)

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