Mayor Joe Ganim, City Council members and police and fire officials stood on the Bridgeport Government Center’s rooftop parking lot Tuesday afternoon, gazing up at a drone hovering in the air above them. At one point, Ganim took hold of the drone’s controller.
It was a demonstration to cap off the announcement of a new drone program in Bridgeport.
While city police have used drones previously, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with Atlanta-based security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced and “will be used as first responders,” giving officers an aerial view of a scene before they arrive.
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