MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — Mesa police have implemented a Drone First Responder program that allows pilots to fly drones to active calls from miles away, sometimes arriving before patrol officers.
The program uses a drone operated remotely from the department’s Real Time Crime Center, providing officers with aerial surveillance and information before they arrive on scene and while they work the call.
“I think any time you have more information, the better,” said Detective Brady Juvan, a drone operator with Mesa police…