RCMP UAV uses FLIR Systems

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Who'd have thought that the RCMP would have drones? Really good footage showing the effectiveness of FLIR


Single Vehicle Rollover – Saskatoon RCMP Search for Injured Driver with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

On 2013-05-09 at 00:20 hours, Saskatoon RCMP received a call of a single vehicle rollover on Highway # 5 about 5 km east of St. Denis, Saskatchewan.

RCMP, along with St Denis and Vonda Fire Rescue and EMS from MD Ambulance, responded to the scene. Upon arriving at the scene, emergency responders could not locate the vehicle’s occupants. The examination of the scene indicated that at least one person had been in the vehicle and was injured. A ground search was conducted within 200 meters of the scene, but searchers were unable to locate anyone.

STARS Air Ambulance was contacted and agreed to attend with their night vision to see if they could detect and locate the injured person. STARS conducted an initial search of the 1000 meters surrounding the rollover, but were unable to locate anyone.
At 01:20 hrs, members from Saskatoon RCMP contacted Cpl. Doug Green, a Forensic Collision Reconstuctionist, requesting he attend with the Dragan Flyer X4-ES equipped with a forward looking infrared camera (FLIR). Cpl. Green arrived at 01:55 and discussed the situation with the on scene member.

At 02:10 hours, the driver of the vehicle, a 25-year-old male, called 911 from his cell phone. He indicated he was cold, did not know where he was and could give no directions to his location. He was only dressed in T-shirt (no jacket), pants and had lost his shoes. Temperatures at the time were near freezing.

With the help of SaskTel, a GPS location of the driver’s cell phone was obtained. Cpl. Green and Saskatoon RCMP established communication with the STARS Air Ambulance overhead and gave them the GPS coordinates. Cpl. Green then entered the coordinates into his GPS and drove to the location. Cpl. Green and STARS then went to the new location which was in a field 2 miles south of the rollover. Cpl. Green attempted to call to the driver over the loud hailer and used the siren to direct him towards his location. The driver did not respond to any of these attempts to contact him. STARS continued to search the area with their night vision and search light. Cpl. Green was joined in the search by several members of the Vonda Fire Department.

At 03:00, Cpl. Green launched the Dragan Flyer X4-ES (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – UAV) equipped with a FLIR. Once the UAV was in the air a search was initiated in the area of the last known location of the driver. Three heat signatures showed up on the screen of the FLIR. Cpl. Green directed Vonda Fire Department members towards the first heat signature located in the trees 200 meters from the last known GPS location. Fire /Rescue members located the driver at this first location, curled up in a ball at the base of a tree next to snow bank. He was unresponsive and was quickly brought out to the road by Fire/Rescue and placed in an ambulance and was transported to hospital in Saskatoon. Without the UAV and FLIR, searchers would not have been able to locate the driver until daylight.

Saskatoon RCMP would like to thank STARS Air Ambulance, MD Ambulance and the Vonda and St Denis Fire Departments for their assistance in locating the injured driver.
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The same technology that could have been used search the homes in High River; without kicking in doors. Does something stink around here?

Cheers!
 
they have had drones for a while now. the flir is used by police all the time. Most police choppers are equipped with it. That being said, the drones happen to look like ducks or geese I hear.....
 
Edenchef said:
The same technology that could have been used search the homes in High River; without kicking in doors. Does something stink around here?

Cheers!
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Only prob is the CF admitted to have used but the RC's played stupid after that...check the media info they have admitted to being bumbling liars or quickly played stupid and knew nothing of the CF flying over with Griff.
 
Here is info on that egg beater:


WINNIPEG - Manitoba RCMP have joined the growing list of police forces using tiny, remote-controlled helicopters as eyes in the sky.

The one-metre-long devices come equipped with high-definition cameras that can stream video and photographs to officers on the ground. They give the Mounties a bird's-eye view of traffic accident and crime scenes.

"When you're standing on the ground, taking ground-level photographs, you're basically getting a two-dimensional perspective of the world around you," RCMP Cpl. Byron Charbonneau, a traffic collision reconstructionist, said Thursday.

"When you get a top-down view, it adds a third perspective to your investigation."

The devices can also be used when it may be dangerous to send an officer into an area, such as a toxic spill. The helicopter camera can determine how big the spill is and how it is moving before personnel are sent in.

The helicopters are similar to ones being used already by the Ontario Provincial Police, other RCMP divisions and some municipal police forces. But the ones chosen by Manitoba RCMP are custom-made. They're a little heavier than other models in order to resist the strong Prairie winds. They cost up to $30,000 each.

The use of such helicopters in other countries has raised privacy concerns from people who fear the choppers could be turned on protesters, crowds at sporting events, or just people walking in the street. That will not happen, according to the RCMP.

"Our policy prohibits that type of use (and) these aircraft are not really intended or designed for that type of use," Charbonneau said.

The helicopters only have enough power to fly for 13 minutes when they're carrying a camera, Charbonneau said, making them impractical for crowd surveillance.

The helicopters are not considered drones. They are controlled by a trained pilot on the ground and another RCMP member who operates the camera. The camera is mounted in a way that allows it to shoot in any direction, including straight down.

The mini-choppers are considered much less expensive than calling out the RCMP's full-sized helicopters for individual tasks. They can also hover much closer to the ground without creating noise and wind.
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Anything can be misused, but this is a biiiiiiig country, that's cold a lot of the time; SAR could really use FLIR as well. Drones should help keep costs down.
Plus they do kinda look like geese.
 
Looks like it's time to stop messing around and get the "that was a nice drone you USED to have" tool. :) Someday I'm going to get up the nerve to bring this thing out to a big enough lake to see just how far it will launch a solid projectile. If the last one I made, which was only running on oxygen and acetylene is any indication, a few miles is absolutely no problem. LOL.


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