{"id":204397,"date":"2020-03-24T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T07:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204397"},"modified":"2020-03-27T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T06:36:50","slug":"cops-to-use-drones-with-night-vision-cameras-to-enforce-coronavirus-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204397","title":{"rendered":"Cops to use DRONES with Night-Vision Cameras to Enforce Coronavirus Clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leah Simpson \u2013 Daily Mail March 23, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Chula Police Department plans to fit the devices with speakers and night vision cameras to keep an eye on the community and make announcements\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>California police captain said that with the community spread of coronavirus: &#8216;It might be impractical or unsafe for our officers to be put into those areas&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Their devices are made by Chinese company DJI but US officials have been wary to use the countries drones due to possible security breeches\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Impossible Aerospace chief executive said he is currently &#8216;working like crazy&#8217; with federal law enforcement agencies who require the devices<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Commercial Drone Alliance and other drone backers wants the FAA to relax rules concerning drone safety due to the epidemic\u00a0and the need to socially distance<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Monday there were 1,539 cases and 39 coronavirus-related deaths in California\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-8118911\/Who-ask-help-coronavirus-symptoms-strike.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coronavirus symptoms<\/span><\/a>: what are they and should you see a doctor?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/drone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-144553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/drone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>A Southern <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">California<\/span><\/strong><\/a> police department will use drones to monitor the community amid the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Located south of San Diego, the Chula Vista Police Department has invested in two drones that cost $11,000 each and plan to fit the devices with speakers and night vision cameras after last week Governor Gavin Newsom ordered residents to stay at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police attending the scenes of crimes are having to risk their health by getting into close contact with people involved in an incident but the drones \u2013 which will join two previously purchased from Chinese company DJI \u2013 would give cops an extra pair of eyes from afar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After Governor Newsom last week stated 60,000 homeless people are expected to be infected with COVID-19, the drones could help watch over people living on the streets amid the outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speakers would help officers give orders from the sky rather than reporting to the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The outbreak has changed my view of expanding the program as rapidly as I can,&#8217; Captain Vern Sallee told the <a class=\"class\" style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c7d0dee1-6125-475c-9cc7-78f4671d7cea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Financial Times<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;We have not traditionally mounted speakers to our drones, but &#8230; if we need to cover a large area to get an announcement out, or if there were a crowd somewhere that we needed to disperse &#8212; we could do it without getting police officers involved.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By Monday there were 1,539 confirmed cases and 39 coronavirus-related deaths in California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Governor Newsom aims to gets the homeless in isolation using trailer parks and converted hotels, he announced on Facebook last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However homeless people themselves haven&#8217;t been able to access the frequent updates about coronavirus plans from the local government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8143553\/Chula-Vista-California-police-patrol-neighborhoods-using-drones-coronavirus-lockdown.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californian Police will use drones with speakers and night vision cameras to monitor the community and make announcements <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204424,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204397\/revisions\/204424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}