Question follow-through · 108373
Police: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to update the Air Navigation Order 2016 to support the use of beyond-line-of-sight drones by police forces.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to update the Air Navigation Order 2016 to support the use of beyond-line-of-sight drones by police forces.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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11 Feb 2026
Answer published
The are currently no plans to update the Air Navigation Order 2016 in relation to police drone operations because non-military state drone operations such as those undertaken by police forces and performed in the public interest are already exempt from th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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