Elk Grove PD
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Drone-as-First-ResponderElk Grove Police Department

The mission of our Drone-as-First-Responder (DFR) Program is to provide the fastest and safest possible air support to our city’s first responders in a responsible and transparent manner. Our goals are to increase safety, reduce response times, and increase our effectiveness and efficiency. Drones have become a critical tool to provide a birds-eye view of an incident for ground personnel, searching for missing persons, determining appropriate next steps in a situation, and much more.
 
We are not using this program to proactively seek wrongdoing or invade privacy. DFR is used specifically to reactively respond to emergency calls for service and enhance our ability to serve you. To achieve transparency with you, our valued community members, we use software that automatically tracks and logs all drone flights launched by our department that are publicly available for review.

261
total calls responded to
138.7
average response time (sec)
77%
average reduction in response time
34
calls cleared without patrol resource
345
subjects located
72%
first on scene
Top Call Types
261 Total Calls
27
SUSPICIOUS - PERSON
20
PERSON - WELFARE CHECK
15
TRAFFIC - RECKLESS/RACE
12
COLLISION - NON-INJURY
10
DISTURB - FIREWORKS
10
INCOMPLETE 9-1-1 CALL - WIRELESS PHASE 2
9
DOMESTIC - SPOUSE/BF-GF VERBAL
8
STOP - VEHICLE
8
DISTURB - VERBAL FAMILY
7
COLLISION - PARAMEDICS AND/OR FIRE RESPONDING