{"id":423958,"date":"2026-08-04T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423958\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:25:33","slug":"how-clovis-drones-assisted-in-86-arrests-during-first-half-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423958\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clovis drones assisted in 86 arrests during first half of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 Clovis Police gave the public a look into how they use their Drone First Responder, using video of suspects being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In the video released on Tuesday, which can be viewed in the video player above, drone footage shows a person being arrested in February 2026, tracking a mail thief in March 2026, and a pursuit of a DUI U-Haul driver in May 2026, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Clovis Police say that from January 2026 to June 2026, their two Drone First Responders (DFR) have:<\/p>\n<p>Taken 603 flights<\/p>\n<p>Assisted with 86 arrests<\/p>\n<p>Located 166 persons<\/p>\n<p>Responded to scenes before officers 56% of the time<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the DFR program helps enhance public safety by responding faster, gathering vital information, and keeping everyone safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 Clovis Police gave the public a look into how they use their Drone First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-423958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}