(TNS) — Six weeks since the Chattanooga Police Department launched a program dispatching drones to emergency calls, some of those drones are handling incidents without requiring an officer response at all.
According to data on the department’s public dashboard on Oct. 9, the city’s two drones had responded 997 times since the launch of the pilot in late August, which includes test flights.
For 188 of those deployments, the drone was the first responder on the scene, and in 41 deployments — or 4% — the drone was the only police unit that needed to respond…