CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
January 23, 2010
Guardian.co.uk
1/23/2010
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
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Harold
My company is currently doing R&D to create our own drones for government use. Very cool stuff Active Vision