The New York Post reports that the New York Police Department is planning to purchase a counter-drone system to protect the city.
The article continues that Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Kaz Daughtry, said the city is in talks with Maryland-based American Robotics to buy technology that can detect, track and intercept hostile drones.
American Robotics has developed the Iron Drone Raider, a portable station that can launch two or three small drones that are capable of intercepting a suspect drone and firing a lightweight mesh net at it, entangling its rotors and preventing it from flying. A parachute is then activated, bringing the drone down safely.
The drones would be launched from wherever cops are patrolling, and piloted remotely from One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan, the article says.
To deploy the system in New York, restrictions that ban local jurisdictions from taking down drones would need to be lifted, but Daughtry told the New York Post that the Trump administration is “open to it”.
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