UAVs for simultaneous security and media coverage?
Airbeat Magazine reports that UK police are keen to see uavs used for
"surveillance, road and railway monitoring, search and rescue support, harbor security, event security and media coverage, communication relays, major incident assessment, frontier security and covert urban surveillance".
I'm particularly interested in the concept of pooling a police controlled UAV to do "event security and media coverage"
Surely the two tasks are not compatible?
Who will have control of the joystick, the outside broadcast director or the chief constable? Tight shot of the Olympic rings or a suspect in the back alley?
With agreement for UAVs to fly in the UK "expected" in 2011 and with the 2012 Olympics approaching are the simultaneous multi role capabilities of UAVs being oversold?
Or perhaps the UK police plan to operate a separate UAV for media use?
If so a disturbing new spin on "Police, Camera, Action"
Mickjoebill