UAV's for SK RCMP

[The Bread Guy]

This from MERX:

.... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Regina, SK has a requirement for the supply and delivery of an Aerovironment QUBE Unmanned Aircraft System, with an option to purchase two additional units.

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Only known supplier
Aerovironment Ltd
181 W. Huntington Drive
Suite 202
Monrovia, CA
91016

Estimated Value - $270,427.50 Cdn

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More on QUBE UAS here, and more from Postmedia News here:

The RCMP are planning to expand their fleet of remote-controlled “eyes in the sky,” and for the first time, they’re looking south of the border to a company that has been a major supplier of unmanned aerial vehicles for the U.S. military.

Southern California-based AeroVironment Inc. builds tiny fixed-wing drones, which have been a staple of the U.S. Defense Department’s arsenal in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.

But it also produces a line of four-rotor helicopters — called Qubes — that are tailor-made for use by police. Small enough to fit in the trunk of a car and controlled using touch-screen tablets, these toy-like machines are equipped with live-stream video cameras and thermal-imaging technology to give police a bird’s eye view of an accident scene and aid in search-and-rescue operations.

RCMP’s F Division in Saskatchewan, which has taken a lead role testing unmanned aircrafts for the force, just posted on a government-contracting website notice of its intent to acquire as many as three Qubes and related accessories for about $270,000 ....

 

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This is more an evolution of the program rather than a new thing. When I was in Forensic Ident we were in the initial stages of using aerials for recording crime scenes etc. The first test was a bust though- we bought RC helicopter based and they turned out to be too unwieldy for folks with not enough time to get really good at piloting them. Good systems- not mountie proof. It was an operator thing.

Those were after we tried telescopic poles.....that were built in California. Again good systems....not used to going up and down in all types of weather conditions.

We went that direction because they were Canadian made. All good tools for the toolbox though. Pretty strict where it can be used- there was an uproar in several places where police have used these but its really tempest in a teapot stuff. They are CURRENTLY being used to infringe on anyone and as long as society stays ahead of the curve and gives good ROE it shouldnt be an issue

 

[daftandbarmy]

Great work chaps! 



Injured Sask. man found by unmanned flying vehicle in unique rescue (with video)

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Injured+Sask+found+unmanned+flying+vehicle+unique+rescue+with/8372405/story.html