2025/28485 - Drones, helicopters and vehicles 2020 - 2024

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Drones

Does your police force operate a drone program?

For each year between 2020 and 2024 how many drones has your police force operated?

How much money has been invested in your police forces drone program, for each year between 2020 and 2024?

Do you have a designated drone department or are they allocated to individual officers?

Is drone training implemented internally or externally?

How much does it cost to train a drone pilot and how many hours does this take?

What changes are planned within your police force to better integrate drones in front line policing?

Does your police force have future aspirations to operate drones as first a responder in line with future legislative changes?

Does your police force share information with other police forces regarding their drone programs, and its future integration?

EMPASS / Helicopters:

Does your police force own its own deployable helicopter or use EMPASS / similar program?

For each year between 2020 and 2024, how many times did your police force deploy the helicopter?

How much did your police force spend on EMPASS / internal helicopter programs for each year between 2020 and 2024?

Vehicles - For each year between 2020 and 2024:

How many of your police forces vehicles have been involved in road traffic collisions?

How much has this cost your force in repairs / replacement vehicles?

What % of your front-line officers are response driver trained (Yankee or golf using Avon and Somerset terms).

What is the cost of training a response driver?

How many hours / days does the course take?

Is this training delivered internally or externally?

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