{"id":51194,"date":"2016-02-02T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51194"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:48:26","slug":"police-eagles-set-to-take-down-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/police-eagles-set-to-take-down-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Police eagles set to take down drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/static\/uploads\/photo\/2014\/05\/11\/13\/39\/bald-eagles-341898_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Bald Eagles, Bald Eagle, Bird Of Prey, Adler, Raptor\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soon to be manning the skies\u00a0is a crack team of winged police officers, specially trained to take down rogue drones.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right&#8230; not only do police eagles exist but they may soon be patrolling, protecting\u00a0us innocents against those drones flouting the law.<\/p>\n<p>As drones become more mainstream local law enforcement has began to proactively combat any threat they may pose. The hover-boarding teen is now a distant memory. There&#8217;s a new tech menace in town, and this time the boys in blue really mean business.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch National Police can be seen in the video below training eagles to swoop in and capture drones.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='730' height='441' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HifO-ebmE1s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With their huge talons and powerful toes they&#8217;re able to\u00a0grip onto, disable and retrieve\u00a0the drones. A spokesperson states &#8220;they&#8217;re a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem&#8221;. They&#8217;re certainly more maneuverable than the other low-tech alternative proposed &#8211; a large net wielded by police officers &#8211; which sounds more like an old Laurel and Hardy sketch.<\/p>\n<p>High-tech solutions are also available of course &#8211; the US are reportedly developing a laser(!) &#8211; however the availability and cost are bound to be issues. So the introduction of eagles my not\u00a0seem to be as far out there as we initially thought.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Looking to fly responsibly?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you fancy indulging your childhood dream of becoming a pilot and are willing to stay on the right side of our feathered friends, why not check out our new range of drones. They&#8217;re great for any ability and will soon have you flying high.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-shop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/by-type\/gifts-and-gadgets\/drones-and-quadcopters\">Shop Drones &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon to be manning the skies\u00a0is a crack team of winged police officers, specially trained to take down rogue drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":51248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8158,8403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51194"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51246,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194\/revisions\/51246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}