Thursday, June 30, 2022
Terry invited some WAUC members to join her and Bob at the Waukesha Sheriff's Dept. to learn how the police use drones. Bob and Terry are Waukesha County Sheriff's Department Citizen's Academy Alumni. We met on a perfect evening to be able to view the drones in operation.
Two officers, Detective Honrath on the left and Officer Farrell on the right,
gave us a Power Point presentation with general information about drones. Some of the uses would be to aid in fire control and causes, finding lost people, crowd control and observing criminal suspects.
The department uses three sizes of drones, each with different capabilities, the largest being the most sophisticated with a more powerful zoom lens camera. We learned various rules that have to be observed, such as how high above buildings they can fly, the lights they use in night flying, their compliance with FAA regulations and they have to be able to be seen by an operator. We went outdoors to view the special trailer that is the command post and houses all the equipment.
This is the large sized drone. Once it was in the air we watched what it hovered over from a large computer monitor in he trailer. We were watching people playing golf and traffic moving along the highway.
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