Police applauded role of drone operator in arrest of White Rock man in grisly Vancouver attacks
A privacy researcher and civil liberties advocate says the use of drones by Canadian police forces has evolved with the technology, but scrutiny of their use is lacking.
The concerns come after Vancouver’s Chief Const. Adam Palmer revealed that investigators deployed drones to help locate a suspect in a pair of gruesome stranger attacks in the city’s downtown on Wednesday, that left one man dead and another with a severed hand.Brenda McPhail, an instructor in the public policy and digital society program at McMaster University, says the public only tends to hear about police use of drones “where there’s been a success.
She says the Vancouver Police Department’s drone program, launched in 2019, went through a “policy process” that included consultations with privacy and civil liberties advocates. The policy includes a ban on drone flights “for surveillance purposes,” except where there’s an “imminent risk to life or safety.”
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