The San Diego Police Department is exploring a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program that would deploy drones from rooftop stations across the city to arrive at emergency scenes before officers on the ground.
Police Chief Scott Wahl said the department has already presented the proposal to the city’s Privacy Advisory Board, which governs San Diego’s surveillance ordinance. The next step is city council approval, and the department is hoping to have a pilot project in place after the start of the calendar year.
“Listen, we didn’t just jump into this technology on a whim,” Scott Wahl said in an in-studio interview with ABC 10News Anchor Jared Aarons…