Redmond, Oregon, is replacing its DJI police drones with six Skydio aircraft, and paying for them the way a city buys a fleet of patrol cars: on a five-year financed contract. Photo credit: Redmond PD The city council approved the $410,762 deal with Axon on June 23. The department calls its old fleet obsolete, but the bigger force behind the swap is the federal ban that pushed American police off Chinese-made DJI drones. The contract even schedu…
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