The police drone found the senior before he died from hypothermia.
Derbyshire, England, police used a drone to find a confused elderly man lying in a ditch on a freezing night, six hours after he wandered out of the hospital.Derbyshire Constabulary said in a statement on Jan. 8:"An elderly man who went missing from hospital in Chesterfield on a freezing December night was rescued by officers, after a last-minute decision to widen their search area using a police drone.
During an extensive search, the man called a relative and said he was at a bus stop in Brimington, miles away from the hospital. Police located the missing elderly man in freezing weather in Derbyshire, England, on Dec. 1, 2021. Above, a Belgian police drone is seen during a patrol in Brussels on March 24, 2020, during a national lockdown in Belgium to curb the spread of COVID-19."While this was being arranged, Sergeant Kev Harrell, acting on a hunch, made the decision to use the last remaining battery to fly the drone to the south of the hospital, just in case.
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