Justice
from above.
If
you think the increasing rise of drone use is pretty scary, prepared
to get terrified... if you're a criminal. The London Metropolitan
Police has announced that it is investigating whether the use of
unmanned aircraft could be useful when pursuing motoring criminals,
especially those on mopeds and motorbikes.
The
announcement comes following the death of an 18 year old suspect in
London in 2014 while he fled from two unmarked police cars “The
possibilities of unmanned aerial vehicles to tackle suspects using
two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles to commit crime," said
Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey, "are currently being discussed
at a national level by the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s
steering group and the Centre for Applied Science and Technology.”
This
means that drones could potentially be used to follow crims as they
flee the scene of a crime, without the need for cars to tear after
them, causing panic and injury. So as well as Amazon drones dropping
off packages, the sky could soon be filled with flashing blue lights.
Wow,
TV cops dramas are going to get weird, aren't they?