The Wilmington Police Department bought a drone about eight months ago and has deployed it a few times to investigate murder scenes.
“We’ve been using it to take aerial footage of homicide or crime scenes, where [we] were not able to previously get images before,” Master Sergeant Adam Ringle told WDEL 1150AM. Ringle heads up the department’s Forensic Services Unit.
Using drones is typically more cost effective than a helicopter trip. The $1,500 drone takes HD quality video and photos, and is controlled remotely via an iPhone or iPad.
“We normally would have had to go out and spend an hour and trying to looking for things, now we can just send a drone and do a quick aerial surveillance rather than a large-scale personnel surveillance,” Ringle told WDEL.
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