See how "Aerial Soldiers" show their power in hard battles
Drones add tech wings to policing
□ Our reporter Dong Fanchao
"Start action!" With the commander's order, several groups of police quickly attacked in the dark, and controlled the suspect in the wild mountains with high trees and dense forests.
Above the arrest operation, a police drone with a glimmer of light overlooked the whole situation, and continuously transmitted the scene images, surface information, and trajectory coordinates to the command center.
This is very much like a scene in a movie. It is the actual combat scene where the police in Fuzhou, Fujian arrested a criminal suspect at about 4 am on April 26 this year.
In recent years, more and more police drones have played the role of "air fighters" in the process of daily patrol duties, security guards, stability maintenance, and case detection by virtue of their maneuverability, flexibility, and high-altitude perspective.
Public security organs in various places have carried out the construction of various special equipment and professional talent teams, giving full play to the advantages of police drones in digital command, digital investigation, digital prevention and control and digital management, breaking the traditional ground security work mode and satisfying police work. The midpoint, line, surface, and dimension all-round needs will help to further build a more complete work pattern of "fighting, prevention, control and construction".
crime fighting
In the past, some criminals fled into the remote mountains and forests, creating difficulties for the public security organs to search and arrest.
"Since the first drone was put into the police work in Wuhu in 2018, the previous problems have been solved. The thermal imaging function of the drone can quickly locate the suspect's location, whether it is bushes or dense woods, which can block it. The 'clairvoyance' of unmanned aerial vehicles has provided great convenience for arresting work," said Gao Wengen, head of the special police detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Wuhu City, Anhui Province.
In addition, the ultra-long-distance camera system equipped by police drones can conduct observations several kilometers away, and easily grasp various information of criminal suspects.
Last year, the public security organs of Wuhu City launched an operation against illegal sand mining in the Yangtze River Basin. Police drones played an important role in the preliminary investigation work, quickly identified illegal sand mining personnel, and assisted in the arrest of 14 major criminal suspects. 2 transport ships, 3 sand suction pump ships and 3 floating cranes were seized.
In the "Eravirus-2022" special operation carried out by the Xiaoshan Branch of Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province not long ago, the police used scientific and technological means such as drone remote sensing aerial survey and "photographing of flowers and pictures" to conduct aerial inspections in the fields under their jurisdiction. At the same time, combined with ground pulling net inspections, group cross inspections and other methods, it was found that more than 3,000 original drug plants were eradicated, 1 person was taken criminal compulsory measures, and 15 people were administratively punished.
"Since last year, police drones have successively participated in the task of closing the net and arresting the food and drug brigade, and found and captured the main culprit who escaped into the mountains..." Xu Jia, deputy leader of the patrol and special police brigade of Xiaoshan Branch, told the "Rule of Law Daily" Reporter, in addition to directly participating in the fight against crime, police drones also play a key role in tasks such as search and rescue of lost people, and evidence collection in environmental pollution cases.
"Low-altitude prevention and control used to be a shortcoming of the entire system. The application of police drones has solved some of the long-standing and difficult problems in traditional police affairs, improved the three-dimensional prevention and control system of social security, and further integrated the construction of police informatization. Make the big data policing system more high-quality and efficient." Gong Zhigang, dean of the School of Public Security, Renmin Public Security University, told reporters that as a new policing model, drone policing has significantly improved the quality of policing, making Policing works on a new and higher platform.
Strong police skills
On March 17 this year, a positive case of new coronary pneumonia was found in Cangshan District, Fuzhou City. The public security organs quickly dispatched police drones to fly over the epidemic prevention and control area to carry out two-dimensional modeling, aerial shouting, real-time monitoring and other related work , 280,000 square meters of two-dimensional image collection and drawing were completed within 5 hours, providing important data support for the command and decision-making of epidemic prevention and control.
Since the beginning of summer, in terms of safety management in key areas, the police drones of the Fuzhou Police have also "flyed" a protective barrier.
Along the Minjiang River, the police controlled drones to conduct full-coverage patrols at high and low altitudes in areas with high incidence of drowning and other dangerous incidents.
With the advantage of drones flying in the air, the patrol time of similar areas is greatly shortened, and at the same time, modern technologies such as drones' aerial shouting and high-definition cameras are fully utilized to persuade the people to leave the wild in a timely and effective manner.
If an accident is found, the UAV lifebuoy throwing system can also be used to provide early rescue for the drowning people.
"As an extension of the police's 'hands, feet, eyes' and other sensing organs, police drones help improve the police's comprehensive prevention and control capabilities for social security, and help smart policing to accelerate its efforts to move towards a precise, efficient, and high-quality development stage." Lin Youhui, head of the patrol and special police detachment of the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau, said.
In recent years, police drones have been widely used in street patrols, police reception, fixed-point cruises, intelligent follow-up and other fields by public security organs in various places. The construction of the Internet has accelerated, and police drones have also become the "optimal puzzle" for public security prevention and control in the eyes of the police.
According to Dang Zhenggang, director of the Police Aviation Office of the Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department, the provincial traffic police department began to use police drones to carry out traffic law enforcement tasks such as aerial shouting in 2017, and later spread to special police, public security and other police types to implement security and stability. , personnel search and rescue and other police activities, high-speed traffic police have also used police drones for professional tasks such as road traffic guidance and accident scene mapping.
Since the normalization of epidemic prevention and control work, public security organs at all levels in Qinghai have used drones for many times to carry out epidemic prevention and policing tasks such as epidemic prevention propaganda. While saving police force and optimizing the task process, they have achieved good results.
In Wuhu, Anhui, whenever high-level duties or major holidays are encountered, the Wuhu special police will dispatch drones to cooperate with the ground police to conduct "air-ground integration" patrols.
"The participation of drones can not only improve the efficiency of daily patrol work, but also provide a high-altitude perspective, helping the ground patrol police to grasp the overall situation and accurately obtain information about the patrol area, and can also quickly respond to important police situations and emergencies, and quickly dispatch the police." Governing said.
Combining combat training with elite soldiers
The ultra-long shot of the drone is very clear, is there a risk of data leakage?
Will high-altitude drones pose a safety hazard to other aircraft and ground personnel?
These questions can be found in the actual combat and training of the public security organs in various places.
Gao Wengen said that the police drones of the Wuhu public security organs must be approved by the main person in charge of the department before each use.
The "flyers" of the drone professional team are all "veterans" with strong skills and rich flying experience. The team will also conduct drone training on a regular basis, and the public security system will hold relevant professional competitions from time to time. In 2021, Wuhu Public Security The UAV professional team achieved the second best result in Anhui Province.
Repeated training and running-in will minimize the unexpected situations of UAVs in flight missions.
How to fight a battle, how to train soldiers.
In recent years, around the goal of "training must obey and serve the needs of actual combat", local public security organs have continuously deepened the construction of professional teams, promoted the coupling of combat training, and tempered elite soldiers.
In November 2021, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau will use the Internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies to build an "e-body +" smart-enabled modern police system.
The patrol and special police detachment of Fuzhou Public Security Bureau actively integrates into the "e-body +" intelligent empowerment system, and implements a gradient talent training model for police drones. There are ministerial-level police drone driving license examiners and police drone senior officers. There is 1 instructor, 1 leader in the innovation and application of disciplines, and more than 130 police officers with B2 driver's licenses for police drones, constantly injecting new blood and vitality into the development of police aviation.
Based on the actual security needs of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Xiaoshan Branch established a cutting-edge UAV security team for the overall situation and carried out 8 training sessions. 120 civilian auxiliary police officers passed the basic pilot training to form a UAV application management and operation system, and build a UAV application management system. In the actual combat application laboratory, the red and blue simulation confrontation has entered the normal operation mode.
"In terms of establishing rules and regulations, our bureau has formulated 8 rules and regulations such as "Management Specifications for Police UAVs and Related Equipment", "UAV Low-altitude Defense Disposal Work Specifications", and set up 24-hour operation in the command room of the patrol and special police brigade The number of drone seats is clear, the task requirements are specified, the work process is refined, and the linkage mechanism between the drone command room of the brigade and the special drone class is unblocked." said Geng Yuan, a police officer from the patrol and special police brigade of Xiaoshan Branch.
Regarding the development prospects of the police drone team, Gong Zhigang pointed out that most of the grassroots police drone team is affiliated with other departments. In the future, an independent organization will still be established to train a group of professional police officers.
In terms of hardware configuration, it is necessary to develop more police drones with superior performance that are suitable for police requirements by deepening the integration of police and enterprises.
"The management plan for the flying of police drones is gradually improving. It should be noted that there is still a lack of clear legal provisions to regulate the field of civilian drones, which makes it difficult to identify and execute in the management process. Public security organs It is necessary to promote the improvement of corresponding laws and regulations, and effectively control the production and use of various illegal drones." Gong Zhigang said.