Grady Judd
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Now, I've checked across the state and nation, and I know you're a worldwide broadcast.
If somebody can show me
Another police agency, local police agency that's doing this, any place in the United States, I want to know so we can also partner with them.
But I think I've got the only cell unit in the United States right now.
I'm a big privacy wonk.
I don't think we should be in anybody's space that's private.
But I can tell you that we use drones on police responses today.
I've probably got 40 drones.
Now, they don't fly around the community and look in your backyard, but if you call and say, I've got a burglar,
We immediately send a patrol team.
We immediately send a canine team.
We immediately send a drone team, and we immediately send a helicopter because we're going to catch that person.
Well, we have about 40 drones assigned 24-7.
But we send the drone team, and what they do is they're an aerial platform so we can look at wherever the perimeter of the crime scene is to see if we can find somebody running, somebody hiding, somebody behind a building with a gun that could ambush us.
So we use that drone capability now.
But it's line of sight.
There will come a day where instead of having to mobily drive that drone to the area, that we'll operate that drone from an intelligence center.
So we'll launch that drone to emergencies.
and it's not just line of sight.
We'll be able to fly that drone for initial response and many times get there before the patrol car does and say, hey, look, that suspicious person, he's selling ice cream.