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<\/p>\nCapable of covering a 15-mile radius – it will be the council’s ‘eye in the sky’<\/p>\n
17:55, 23 Apr 2026Updated 17:56, 23 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Capable of covering a 15-mile radius – Badle 0.1 will be the council’s ‘eye in the sky’ and has thermal imaging too for night(Image: Dudley Council)<\/p>\n
A drone will take to the sky to help tackle anti-social behaviour in Dudley this summer.<\/p>\n
Blade 0.1 – capable of covering a 15-mile radius – will be Dudley<\/a> Council’s ‘eye in the sky’ this summer.<\/p>\n Equipped with zoom technology, the drone will be flown up to 120m high and up to a distance of up to 500m.<\/p>\n READ MORE: West Midlands mini-marts ‘caught selling cannabis and cocaine’ in BBC undercover probe<\/a><\/p>\n It will be used to stop anti-social behaviour, including ‘off-road bikes, fly-tipping and cannabis farms’ in Dudley<\/a>.<\/p>\n Night flights will also take place due to the drone being fitted with thermal imaging technology, spotlight and GPS mapping.<\/p>\n The use of the drone forms part of the council’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to anti-social behaviour, which typically increases during warmer weather and longer, lighter evenings.<\/p>\n It will also be used to track off-road bikes, for fly tipping investigations and to identify potholes.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Rats, drugs and ‘brazen’ fly-tipping – reality of life in ‘rundown’ Birmingham area<\/a><\/p>\n The thermal technology will also allow the council to identify properties potentially being used to harvest and grow illegal drugs.<\/p>\n By capturing illegal activity on camera, the authority will be able to identify and catch perpetrators and bring cases against rogue individuals and activity.<\/p>\n Footage can be shared with police for their own additional investigations.<\/p>\n Michael Brereton, the council’s director for development and regulation, said: \u201cAnti-social behaviour is a real concern to our residents, particularly during the summer months, whether it\u2019s off-road bikes, noisy neighbours, dangerous dogs or criminal activity<\/a> in our communities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe recently passed a new anti-social behaviour policy and this is just the beginning of our roll-out, we will not let this sort of behaviour go unpunished.<\/p>\n \u201cThe drone will be our eyes in the sky and help us identify and bring offenders to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capable of covering a 15-mile radius – it will be the council’s ‘eye in the sky’ 17:55, 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[924,2655,59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-crime","tag-dudley","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548573","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=548573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}