(TNS) — If you call 911 in Meridian, a drone could one day respond to you before a police officer or firefighter does.
It wouldn’t talk to you, and you might not even notice it, according to officials with the Meridian Police Department. But it may very well be there, a few hundred feet up, giving the police “first eyes” on everything from petty thefts to missing persons reports.
By mid-March, the department is expected to launch three new “drone first responders” into Meridian skies, Lt. Brandon Frasier, a department spokesperson, told the Idaho Statesman in an interview…