New Delhi: Netra, the light weight UAV fitted with night vision cameras, will be used by Delhi Police to patrol the streets of the national capital.
The device has already been used by security agencies like BSF, CRPF for counter-insurgency activities while NDRF used it to search for survivors during the Uttarakhand flash floods that took place last year.
“We would in all probability use Netra. We have asked its developers to tweak a few things as per our needs,” said a senior police official.
Delhi Police is soon going to use these drones to patrol dark stretches and crime-prone areas. The project will be launched in north district area by next month.
Every drone will fly at a height of approximately 200 metres and will cover a hexagonal grid area of three to four kilometres. Technologically it will be ensured that the area covered by two drones does not overlap.
The UAV, jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)) and IdeaForge, a Mumbai-based private firm, had also appeared in the Amir Khan-starrer ‘3 Idiots’. (PTI)