PHOTOS: Hungarian police use more and more drones
Police have used drones in 2,400 cases this year, including 1,100 cases against those violating traffic regulations, an interior ministry state secretary said on Friday.
Partly thanks to developments in police equipment and the acquisition of modern technology, the number of crimes has dropped to one third compared to 2010, Bence Rétvári told a presser. During the same period, the number of police has increased by 3,000 to 36,500, and Hungary has become the world’s 13th safest country, he added.
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In addition to traffic control, drones are being used to monitor areas that are difficult to access, he said. They are also in use for revealing illegal migration at the southern borders, securing events, finding missing persons and illegal waste dumps, and crime scene investigation, he added. István Jámbor, the head of national police’s traffic control department, said that police currently had 60 drones and some 300 officers had been trained to operate them.
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- Photo: MTI
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I’ve noticed a lot of police cameras going up in Budapest. Along with drones, facial recognition software, encouragement to send the police your pictures of others, the encouragement to report on neighbors and I have to wonder where Hungary is headed. Add to this that Russia and China are increasingly more important to Fidesz than western nations and that the government(and friends of Fidesz) now own the country’s largest publisher and bookstore chain, an internet provider, construction material manufacturing and on and on. Next the airport and the grocery stores. It is apparent the Fidesz has looked at capitalism and communism and kept the worst parts of those systems. I fear for the Hungarian nation. The state will own everything and will be watching closely.