{"id":168726,"date":"2026-02-25T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:29:10","slug":"orlando-approves-7-million-to-expand-police-drone-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168726\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando approves $7 million to expand police drone program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orlando City Council approved a nearly $7 million expansion of the city\u2019s \u201cDrone as a First Responder\u201d program to help police reach crime scenes faster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initiative enables aerial technology to launch immediately upon receipt of an emergency call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program is designed to provide officers with real-time video and increased situational awareness before they arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drones are integrated into the emergency response process to provide law enforcement with immediate data during active incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding will expand the city\u2019s existing drone program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando City Council approved a nearly $7 million expansion of the city\u2019s \u201cDrone as a First Responder\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[80281,139,13534,141,140],"class_list":["post-168726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-scenes","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-council","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}