COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County Sheriff John Pollack is confident the community at large in the county will make the necessary donations to fund his proposal to purchase a drone for his department.
Pollack says the drone which is already used by the Michigan State Police and other departments across the U.S. will assist in dealing with his ongoing manpower shortage.
According to Pollack, County commissioners have been slow to act over the past decade his repeated requests for additional personnel and equipment needed to keep the public safe at home and on the road.
Pollack spoke at last week’s meeting of the Coldwater Township Sunrise Rotary Club and said the drone including software that has a $26,000 price tag can be very valuable to use while investigating traffic accidents to detail the crash scene.
He explained it means deputies aren’t required to be there, for instance, with a tape measure and a stick trying to take each piece of the site and record it with the distances from the impact point because it’s all automatically taken when the drone goes up.
Pollack said the drone will also be put to work for search and rescue operations and hostage situations.
The Sheriff said the Branch County Community Foundation will be the holding agency for individual and group donations until the campaign to fund the purchase of the drone is concluded.
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