{"id":219818,"date":"2025-10-23T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:06:11","slug":"met-police-to-launch-drones-in-response-to-999-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219818\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police to launch drones in response to 999 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force told the BBC that the new drones were quicker, quieter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than police helicopters, while delivering the same operational results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drones will be launched only as a response to a 999 call, the Met added, and will be piloted by trained operators remotely from the force control room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met said drones would arrive on the scene within two minutes and from there would stream footage to assist officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drones will be used for &#8220;a variety of incidents, including searching for missing people, tracing a suspect, or arriving quicker to capture evidence at the scene of an incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Taylor said the Our Drone as First Responder programme &#8220;will assist in tracing suspects, locating missing people and delivering intelligence to our officers as they respond to Londoners when they need us most&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We are building a Met that is more precise and efficient than ever before, and this new technology gives us a vital new tool to tackle crime in the capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The force told the BBC that the new drones were quicker, quieter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-219818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}