{"id":19807,"date":"2019-07-03T03:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/nypd-to-unleash-drone-technology-to-keep-city-safe-on-fourth-of-july\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T03:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:50:54","slug":"nypd-to-unleash-drone-technology-to-keep-city-safe-on-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/?p=19807","title":{"rendered":"NYPD To Unleash Drone Technology To Keep City Safe On Fourth Of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) \u2013<\/strong> Buzzing high above the East River is one of two new NYPD drones that will be flying over millions of spectators expected at the Fourth of July fireworks show Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t have a cop in every location but we could fly the drone to see what\u2019s going on,\u201d the NYPD\u2019s Frank DiGiacomo said.<\/p>\n

The Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) took CBS2 along exclusively as its specially trained drone pilots practiced taking off from Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Thursday, police will patrol from the sky with their feet still on the ground.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> NYPD Releases 4th Of July Security Plans<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll go up, give command staff perspective of where they need to move personnel around,\u201d Det. Deeu John said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you spot something, then what happens?\u201d CBS2\u2019s Ali Bauman asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we make a notification. Either we call our fellow police officers, we have emergency service, we have FD, EMS,\u201d DiGiacomo added.<\/p>\n

The NYPD only started using drones eight months ago and plan to put them above every big event.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, they\u2019ll be able to fly 400 feet up, half a mile out, and even speak to people below.<\/p>\n

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Drones the NYPD will use for surveillance on July 4. (Credit: CBS2)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone\u2019s in distress we\u2019ll be able to let them know help is coming. We can also give commands in a situation,\u201d DiGiacomo explained.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what happened earlier this year in Brooklyn, when TARU officers used a drone to talk to an armed suspect who had barricaded himself in a 15th floor apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were actually with the drone able to speak to him, he put the gun down, and they were able to get in there\u2026 get the person help.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York is a particularly hard city to operate a drone through on a regular day and Thursday the officers will have the added challenges of flying at night, around fireworks, and over massive crowds<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of aircraft in this area. Tall buildings, electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference\u2026 so we have to constantly monitor the drones we fly to make sure they have good connectivity with controllers and keep an eye on it a little bit more than you would another part of the country,\u201d Det. John said.<\/p>\n

As for the line between security and surveillance, \u201cwe\u2019re not zooming in on any faces or anything like that,\u201d Det. John added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if there is criminality going on we can zoom into faces and get a more detailed description.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) \u2013 Buzzing high above the East River is one of two new NYPD drones that will be flying over millions of spectators expected at the Fourth of July fireworks show Thursday.
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t have a cop in every location but we could fly the drone to see what\u2019s going on,\u201d the NYPD\u2019s Frank DiGiacomo said.<\/p>\n

The Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) took CBS2 along exclusively as its specially trained drone pilots practiced taking off from Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Thursday, police will patrol from the sky with their feet still on the ground.<\/p>\n

MORE: NYPD Releases 4th Of July Security Plans<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll go up, give command staff perspective of where they need to move personnel around,\u201d Det. Deeu John said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you spot something, then what happens?\u201d CBS2\u2019s Ali Bauman asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we make a notification. Either we call our fellow police officers, we have emergency service, we have FD, EMS,\u201d DiGiacomo added.<\/p>\n

The NYPD only started using drones eight months ago and plan to put the..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}