Drone Gives Texas Law Enforcement Bird's-Eye View on Crime

Drone Gives Texas Law Enforcement Bird’s-Eye View on Crime

FoxNews ^ | November 16, 2011 | Kris Gutiérrez

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:01:12 AM by stevie_d_64

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is weeks away from launching an unmanned aerial asset to help deputies fight crime. The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the back of an SUV.

“We can put it over a fire, put it over ahazmat spill, put it over a house with a suspect barricaded inside and literally give the incident commander the ability to look at the entire scene with a bird’s eye view, ” Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel said.

Sheriff’s deputies will fly the ShadowHawk with nothing more than a laptop computer and a remote control similar to that used for video games.

It’s equipped with an infrared camera that can clearly read a license plate from an elevation of twelve hundred feet. The helicopter cost upwards of $300,000 and was purchased with a grant from the federal government.

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