I am really surprised more police agencies are not using drones already. I worked with a police aviation department for 13 years and at least 30% of the tasks could have been achieved as easily with a drone.

NSW is bigger than Texas and sometimes we would fly 2 hours to photograph a road intersection in relation to a fatal car accident investigation. It took most of a shift to fly there, do the job, refuel and fly back at a cost of $2000 per hour.

One drone located at each rural police station could take those photos at far less cost.