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Police: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value of drone technology in supporting police forces to prevent and investigate rural crime.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
10 Sept 2026 · 56 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value of drone technology in supporting police forces to prevent and investigate rural crime.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Government recognises the benefits that drone technology can provide to policing operations. The Home Office has supported police forces to develop Drone as First Responders (DFR) through funding of the NPCC Drones Programme since 2022. This programme...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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