Police to deploy dedicated drone team

As part of the efforts to keep people safe for the first time by the British transport police (BTP), a special drone team for Notting Hill Carnival will be deployed.

The drones are equipped with four cameras, including a wide angle and a zoom, where they can define one person away from about 80 meters (260ft).

“We have a thermal imaging camera,” the drone operation manager Insp Chris Fells. “If someone is hiding in difficult places or we can still find these people at night.”

The event is expected to participate in Europe’s largest street party and about two million people at the weekend.

Images taken by the drones can be fed back to the civil servants or control rooms in real time.

“There is a laser telemetre on this issue, which means that we can label an object more than a kilometer and in fact we can provide the GPS coordinates of that person, so that anyone who responds to the incident can go to the right place.” He said.

When asked how the drones and the new control room would help, Supt Dominique Ioannou said: “This is a challenge, but the network we get from the large cameras stuck in our CCTV center is critical to make sure that we will be able to keep an eye on things and make sure that everyone is safe.

“Usually we have extraordinary quality cameras that are really good for us in terms of defining people and bringing criminals to justice.”

Marina Ahmad, President of the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly, said the priority of the “big” activity was “having a good time when people are as safe as possible”.

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CDR Charmain Brenyah said: “Crowded security continues to be an important concern in the carnival. This year, a lot has been done to address it.”

This will include the use of live face recognition technology, which Met will be deployed at the beginning of this week.

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Matthew Phillip, General Manager of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, said organizers will keep people safe.

“This year we have expanded to a great extent with some extra sources. We have a large crowd of management team, including extra cameras and information screens, and we have resources around.” He said.

Some medical officials will walk or bike and enter training. “We do a lot of simulation exercises to prepare and work very close to the police,” said Peter Holly-Roins of St John ambulance.

To reach Carnival, those who use public transport were recommended to check their routes by fulfilling the closing or changes and bus deviations that affect almost all of the tube stations in the region.

“Some of the major stations such as Paddington are about 15 minutes of walking distance and probably better places, because it is clearly built and designed for large crowds,” Carl Eddleston’s transportation of London (TFL), Carl Eddleston.

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