Police: Unmanned Air Vehicles
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of police forces using drones in response to (a) motorbike, (b) off-road bike and (c) moped related crimes.
This question was answered on 14th December 2017
The Home Office does not collect data on the number of police forces operating drones. Deployment of drones is an operational decision for forces.
In a study published on 30 November HMICFRS reported that 28 Police Forces use drones.