Unmanned Air Vehicles: Surveillance
(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the merits of the use of drones for forensic imaging as a substitute for crewed police air surveillance capacity.
This question was answered on 4th April 2017
This is an operational decision for the police. Decisions on provision of police crewed surveillance in England and Wales are made by the National Police Air Service (NPAS). Drone use is not currently part of their operating model. I understand there are discussions ongoing in policing about the future use of drones.