Lees Summit Drone
Updated: Aug 2, 2021
A charity in Blue Springs, HeroFundUSA, focused on first responders helped buy the Lee's Summit Police Department's first drone.
The $5,000 drone will help document crime scenes, map crashes sites, and conduct search-and-rescues.
Last night, we got a call from one of the sergeants that they wanted to try and located a man who was suicidal under one of the shelters at one of the parks," LSPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Chris Depue said. "It's a large wooded area, a large area to search. The drone can help us shrink that size down and search that area quickly, and it's safer than doing it on foot with human beings.
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Lee's Summit police now join a growing trend.
Law enforcement agencies make up two-thirds of the more 900 first-responder agencies in the United States that currently using a drone, according to a study released in May from Bard College in New York.
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