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BY SAMANTHA DOUTY & ALEX REECE
Prosper officials add drone to police force A drone purchased for the Prosper Police Department is set to take its first flight in early 2025, said Aidan Daily, a crime analyst with the Prosper Police Department. Prosper Town Council approved a $150,000 contract with Flock Safety Inc. for a drone and accompanying software during a Nov. 26 meeting. One use of the drone will be to get an aerial visual of a car crash or an area named in a 911 call while first responders drive over, Daily said. “Sending an air asset out there...we can start to pipe that direct on-scene information to the video feed to our responding officers,” Daily said. According to town documents, the drone is equipped with a live video feed camera, thermal camera imaging, night vision, a laser range finder and an automatic flight log. It has a maximum speed of 54 mph, can arrive anywhere in its roughly three-mile service area
Celina invests $3.5M in Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard will be reconstructed from Preston Road to Coit Road. The details Celina City Council approved a $3.5 mil- lion contract with ANA Site Construction plus a 10% contingency of $350,048 for a total project amount not to exceed $3.85 mil- lion during a Dec. 10 meeting. Funding for the project comes from 2021 bond funds, 2024 bond funds and waste- water capital recovery funds. The roadway is located next to Brookshire’s. The project timeline shows the project will wrap in 2026. “[Sunset Boulevard has] been in pretty bad condition for the last six years I’ve been here,” Celina’s Engineering Director Andy Glasgow said. “Its time to stop patching and rebuild that actual roadway.”
within 90 seconds and can take off by itself but will be piloted by one of Prosper’s FAA-licensed drone pilots once in the air, Daily said. “[The drone] is a really important emerging technology for us to work with, because it’s a way for us to reduce our response time [and increase] our visibility, our situational awareness, and increase our officer safety on scene of both critical incidents and day to day calls,” Daily said. What comes next Daily said the drone should be delivered in early 2025 and will go on its first flight in February 2025. “A kid walks off into the woods or into a field and we can’t find them late at night, we can send the drone up and it can check a much wider area, much faster with the technology on it than a human asset can or faster canine asset.” AIDAN DAILY, CRIME ANALYST WITH THE PROSPER POLICE DEPARTMENT
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