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Bakersfield 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 Bakersfield Police Department
Location Bakersfield, CA
Technology Drones
Vendor DJI, Parrot

The Bakersfield Police Department operated 28 drones as of 2023.

Links
Annual report (City of Bakersfield)
Academic report (Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College)
Other (www.MuckRock.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