{"id":169342,"date":"2026-02-25T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169342\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:08","slug":"orlando-officials-approve-of-7m-expansion-of-police-drone-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169342\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando officials approve of $7M expansion of 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initiative is designed to provide police with real-time video and enhanced situational awareness before they arrive at emergency scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program operates by launching unmanned aircraft immediately upon receiving an emergency call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These drones are intended to provide responding officers with a visual assessment of a location prior to their arrival.<\/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":169343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[80656,6431,139,13534,141,140,80655],"class_list":["post-169342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-emergency-scenes","tag-first-responder","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-council","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-situational-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169342","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=169342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}