NS RCMP buy new fleet of drones.
Natasha Pace/Global News
HALIFAX – RCMP say a drone was used to help locate a family that got lost in the woods.
On Saturday at 4:30 p.m., two adults and their 17-month-old child entered the woods off the Highway 107 extension.
The Dartmouth family got lost and called police around 8:30 p.m.
A drone was deployed, and the family was found in a heavily wooded area northeast of Topsail Lake.
Police located the family and walked them out of the woods around 2 a.m. on Sunday.
There were no injuries.
RCMP drones were put into service this year; in July, the drones were unveiled for the media.
“If we have a person potentially lost in the woods, or a child gone missing, we could potentially deploy it and use the thermal infrared camera to detect them in the woods,” RCMP Const. Mark Skinner, one of a handful of operators in the province with a special certificate from Transport Canada to fly the drones, said at the time.
The RCMP in Nova Scotia have five drones across the province; each costs $30,000.
- Source: http://globalnews.ca
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