Optimizing the model of small unmanned aerial vehicles for police purposes

Abstract

Police activities related to performing high risk tasks such as arresting dangerous criminals, resolving hostage situations, neutralization of terrorist groups, extradition, VIP protection and protection of facilities of great importance, restoring public order, protection and rescuing persons and assets in natural and technical disasters, and other special security assignments all call for effective and efficient decision-making, which depends on prompt and accurate geospatial data in real time. Small unmanned aerial vehicles are one of the means of securing the required data. The paper therefore offers theoretic delineation, areas of implementation, conceptual solutions, comparative analyses of tactical-technical characteristics and tendencies of further development of small unmanned aerial vehicles, followed by a proposal as to how to optimize them for police purposes. This implies the use of vehicles which are available within the national capacities both within the public and the private sectors. The paper emphasises the need for the police to show greater interest in the presented technology of the future which encompasses all state-of-the-art achievements of aeronautics, robotics and electronics, but it also stresses that members of organised crime gangs and terrorist groups have been taking a keen interest in the unthought-of possibilities brought about by this technology.

Policijsko postupanje u visoko rizičnim zadacima kao što su hapšenje opasnih kriminalaca, rešavanje talačkih situacija, neutralisanje terorističkih grupa, ekstradicija, obezbeđenje štićenih ličnosti i objekata od posebnog značaja, uspostavljanje narušenog javnog reda, zaštita i spasavanje ljudi i materijalnih dobara od prirodnih i tehničkih opasnosti i drugi posebni bezbednosni zadaci, zahtevaju hitno donošenje efektivnih i efikasnih odluka koje, između ostalog, zavise od brzih i tačnih podataka o geoprostoru u realnom vremenu. Jedna od svrsishodnih mogućnosti obezbeđenja navedenih podataka su upravo male bespilotne letelice. S tim u vezi, u radu je pored pojmovnog razgraničenja, oblasti primene, konceptualnih rešenja, uporedne analize taktičko-tehničkih karakteristika i tendencija daljeg razvoja malih bespilotnih letelica, data njihova optimizacija za potrebe policije, i to letelica koje su dostupne u okviru nacionalnog kapaciteta - državnog i privatnog sektora. U radu je posebno apostrofirana potreba za većim interesovanjem policije za prezentovanu tehnologiju budućnosti, koja uključuje sva moderna dostignuća aeronautike, robotike i elektronike, ali i permanentno i sve veće interesovanje pripadnika organizovanog kriminala i terorističkih organizacija za njene velike mogućnosti.