UK police plan military-style spy drones in the sky to watch us

E. Blair | 31.01.2010 19:13 | Repression | Technology | South Coast

The Guardian is reporting that police in the UK are planning to buy a batch of unmanned spy drones, like those used by the military in Afghanistan, for permanent covert surveillance of the public. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being manufactured by the arms manufacturer BAE System for Kent police and others. They should be ready for the 2012 Olympics. These aren't the rotor-blade robots used already at demonstrations - they can land and take off on their own, stay up for 15 hours, and go up to 20,000 feet, so they can't been seen on the ground. The full article can be seen here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

Note to government: Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual!

E. Blair

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Pigs can fly after all

31.01.2010 23:32

Police State

unmanned!

31.01.2010 23:55

Why do they need to be UNMANNED aircraft, are they expecting to be short of officers, when their all in jail for nicking the climate campers kit ;-)

The man who always takes a knife when he goes camping

parc aperporth/Made in wales

01.02.2010 08:37

I have for years been saying about UAV and the militery and civillian market, well its to late, if we had complained why the tax payers money is being given to parc aperporth then something might of happened to halt these nasty little things, pakistan have a £4 odd software to stop these uav in there tracks, its not hard to find one of these uav thousands of feet up. so stop moaning its to late its done, and i did warn you years ago, tough crap, go behind thunder dome and one shall see the next phase, TO LATE

Davey

Drone crash

01.02.2010 12:17

http://www.bepj.org.uk/drone-crashes-at-parc-aberporth

journophile

hope they don't assassinate anyone like they did with the gyrocopter...

01.02.2010 16:29

It was MI5 wot did it...

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