The Chula Vista Police Department announced this week that its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program has surpassed 25,000 missions since launch, making the agency that pioneered the entire model in 2018 the clearest proof yet that drone-led emergency response works at scale, as FOX 5 San Diego reported. Photo credit: Chula Vista PD The milestone matters because CVPD isn’t just running a DFR program. They invented one. Every other agency in the …
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