The OPP are flying over snowmobilers.
This week is snowmobile safety week and your Ontario Provincial Police are raising their game. OPP Sergeant Kerry Schmidt says that they’ve improved their way to patrol snowmobile trails using aerial and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technology which are what people call drones.
Schmidt says they’ve also improved their helicopter camera system which can track and monitor speed. The information is then relayed to officers on the ground.
He says that OPP officers are already using these systems and adds that they won’t announce when and where they’ll be.
He says that six snowmobilers have already died this season and half of them were ice-related incidents that caused the snowmobilers to drown. He says they’ll be able to use their new sky patrol technology for rescues as well.
At the end of the day “we just want to make the trails safer” Schmidt says. To report an incident, he encourages everyone to call *OPP.