Kerala becomes 1st state to provide drone surveillance facility to police stations

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), 11th May 2023: Kerala has become the first Indian state to install a drone surveillance system in all police districts across the state. In his address, State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan lauded his state’s efforts and emphasised that it has been at the forefront of modernisation of the police force.

At the inauguration function held today, CM Pinarayi Vijayan distributed the drones to all police districts and the drone pilot licences to the specially trained drone pilots and also launched its own indigenously developed anti-drone software.

The drones would be instrumental in maintaining law and order in the state and during disaster management missions. This comes as Kerala is also the first Indian state to develop a drone forensic lab and an anti-drone system at the state level.

The state police had sent 25 police personnel to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, as representatives for specialised training, along with 20 other officers who were given basic drone operation training.