Hopefully this allowed.
I have seen lots of individual threads on drone news but thought it might be worth having a thread where stories could be put in.
First one to start off is from Lincolnshire:
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Useful photo in that article.
I now have an op id to label my illegal drones with 
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I saw that too, and a police one too!
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I wonder what makes it a police drone? I thought theirs were Inspires.
They use various from my understanding. The roads policing teams in my local force have “big” and small drones.
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Police use all sorts. Lancashire Constabulary recently started using a Parrot Anafi
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The Evolve “Sky Mantis” is becoming more popular now on a few first responser Twitter accounts that I follow too:
https://evolvedynamics.com/sky-mantis/
Looks bit of a beast!
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Oh wow! The specs on that thing is wow, just wow!
It has a 400ft tether option to a standalone battery back too, giving 48hrs flight time nonstop 
And it can detach it’s own tether mid-flight 
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Need!
How much? Haha
Up to ÂŁ20k, if this is to be believed.
Maybe if the Airport was to lead by example.
Pot calling kettle black.
Christ!
Flashing blue lights…? 
Just dropped this chap an email about the op id in the photo and the airprox more out of interest than anything
Positive story from North Wales gives a bit of insight to their new drone team too:
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More positive drone news
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Interesting concept (the crime element):
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