LAPD chief reveals plan to double drone fleet to tackle homicides, kidnappings and burglaries amid cop shortage
Metro exclusive LAPD chief reveals plan to double drone fleet to tackle homicides, kidnappings and burglaries amid cop shortage By Ben Chapman Published July 23, 2026, 8:54 p.m. Add The California Post on Google Facing an ongoing officer shortage, the Los Angeles Police Department plans to more efficiently deploy its officers and shorten response times by doubling the size of a cutting-edge drone fleet that the department is making permanent this week. The nations’s third largest police force increasingly deployed the unmanned aircraft since launching a “drone as a first responder” pilot program last July.
- ▪Metro exclusive LAPD chief reveals plan to double drone fleet to tackle homicides, kidnappings and burglaries amid cop shortage By Ben Chapman Published July 23, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google Facing an ongoing officer shortage, the Los Angeles Police Department plans to more efficiently deploy its officers and shorten response times by doubling the size of a cutting-edge drone fleet that the dep
- ▪The nations’s third largest police force increasingly deployed the unmanned aircraft since launching a “drone as a first responder” pilot program last July.
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