Question follow-through · 52778
Emergency Services: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the use of drones to record footage over police cordons at emergency scenes on privacy; and whether she plans to introduce addi
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the use of drones to record footage over police cordons at emergency scenes on privacy; and whether she plans to introduce addi
19 May 2025
Target answer date
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22 May 2025
Answer published
The use and deployment of drones by policing is an operational matter made independently by police forces, who are best placed to assess their own operational needs while ensuring they have the tools necessary to protect the public.However, in the use and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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