INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The NYPD prepares to cast a large internet when it pertains to securing the Big Apple versus wicked drone operators
The city remains in talks with Maryland-based American Robotics to buy technology that can detect, track and obstruct hostile drones, Deputy
Mayor of Public Safety Kaz Daughtry informed The Post.The company has developed a portable station that can release 2 or three 8-pound
drones efficient in obstructing a suspect drone in midair then fire a light-weight mesh web at the intrusive drone, entangling its rotors
and preventing it from flying.The systems drones, which are released from boxes, can shoot webs that capture other drones American RoboticsA
parachute then triggers to bring the enemy drone down safely to the ground
The drone launchers can be used along parade paths or other large occasions, he said.They have a counter-drone detection system where it
will spot a hostile drone, stated Daughtry, a former NYPD investigator
The web will go around the drone and it will securely land.Daughtry, who directs the citys fleet of 150 drones, has been in talks with the
company about using its Iron Drone Raider System and wishes to have a deal soon, he said.We might station it anywhere throughout the city,
Daughtry said.The system, which utilizes eight-pound racer drones, expenses less than $200,000, American Robotics CEO Eric Brock said.Deputy
Mayor of Public Safety Kaz Daughtry is thought about the citys drone czar and manages its fleet of 150 drones Leonardo MunozGround radar
would detect something thats unidentified, Brock said, explaining that the individual in charge of the drone would then press a button to
When we find the drone we track it and hunt it.His business flaunts the tech in a dramatic video on YouTube.Brock stated he couldnt
recognize the business present customers since of security problems, however stated they have been working with the UAE in the Middle
East.Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry has been a strong proponent of utilizing drone technology to assist the NYPD Leonardo MunozSimilar tech minus
the parachute has actually been utilized by the Ukrainians to take down Russian drones.Before the raider drones might be released in NYC,
the federal government would need to raise restrictions that prohibit regional jurisdictions from removing flying automobiles
Now, just feds have that authorization.Daughtry, who stresses most about prospective drone attacks from a lone wolf, has been lobbying the
Trump administration with Chief of Department John Chell to change that.Im hearing that the [ Trump] administration is open to it, he
said.Daughtry has been on the leading edge of drone usage as an NYPD official under Mayor Adams.Daughtry has actually been talking with
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch about appointing drones to members of the NYPDs Community Response Teams
The drones would be introduced from any place police officers are patrolling, and piloted remotely from One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan,
he said.The drones would then provide video feed of suspects attempting to run away and assist police officers discover them, he said
Officers would no longer need to await the Aviation Unit to send out helicopters from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.The system tracks the
drones with radar and after that hunts them before it fires the net American RoboticsWhen they have a barricaded suspect or a suspect whos
hiding in the woods, they can simply open their trunk, put the drone up, turn it on and they can run, he said
They can simply leave and the drone will launch itself.The relocate to put drones in cars was the last stage of a program that started in
2015 with placing drones on precinct station house roofing systems in crime-prone locations and utilizing them as very first responders on
911 calls.Earlier this month the NYPD had Skydio X10 drones out in droves to keep an eye on anti-Trump protests and was able to use them to
track crowd motion and release its officers to hotspots.There were drones all over the location, Daughtry said.Those drones can go as high
as 800 feet but the city keeps them at 400 so they do not collide with aircrafts, he said
The drones provide NYPD brass eyes in the sky, but can also be criminal offense deterrents.When people are dedicating acts like vandalism or
theyre about to do something we can bring the drone down real close so they know that were seeing them, he said.NYPD TARU Detective Tom
Elliot inside a van where he and other officers can manage drones in other districts from another location from a computer system screen
Leonardo MunozThe FDNY has drones that can monitor its beaches for struggling swimmers and the Office of Emergency Management has drones for
usage in mapping out disasters.FDNY members holding rafts that drones drop into the water to help struggling swimmers Leonardo MunozWhen
Daughtry initially began championing drones back in 2022, he got pushback from some other polices, he said.They told me that we would never
ever be able to have drones in the city, he said
Guess what? Now were using them all over the place.Source: The New York Post
