Aug 27, 2025 | Automation, Law Enforcement, Traffic
The City of Pittsburgh has taken another step to make streets safe by approving plans to install automated red light enforcement cameras. An incident that happens far too often involves pedestrians or people riding bikes who get caught in a crosswalk while a driver...
Jun 18, 2025 | Drones, First Responders, Law Enforcement
A crime reported on Hawaiian homelands may someday trigger police to dispatch a flying drone with the quick press of a button. That’s the pitch Hawaiʻi Department of Law Enforcement Director Mike Lambert made Tuesday to the Hawaiian Homes Commission as he underscored...
Jul 7, 2022 | Drones, Law Enforcement
Police in Spain have broken up a gang that was allegedly building semi-submersible drones each capable of ferrying up to 200kg of drugs across the strait of Gibraltar. The Policía Nacional arrested eight people in Cádiz, Málaga and Barcelona, and said it was...
Jul 7, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Law Enforcement
Level 5 autonomous vehicles (AVs) will allow shipping companies to significantly decrease their costs and their liability as they will no longer need long-haul truck drivers. However, this also applies to smugglers. Trafficking of drugs, people, weapons, and black...
Jan 20, 2022 | Drones, Law Enforcement
A young company making drones designed to detect a loaded firearm and, if needed, get in between a shooter and a potential victim, is getting its first round of financing. Pan American Drone, founded by CEO Leah LaSalla, just raised $3 million in seed financing at a...
May 19, 2021 | Drones, Law Enforcement, Privacy
In Concord, police officials say they’re considering buying drones to map out crime scenes, locate missing people and discourage criminals from fleeing arrest. But despite insisting that unmanned aircraft wouldn’t be used for regular surveillance, police department...
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