It’s no surprise an agency like Indiana State Police has helicopters and airplanes to get places quickly and efficiently when needed, but it’s the camera underneath that
GREENWOOD — Indiana State Police has a tool and eyes in the sky to help public safety agencies across the state when they need it most.Rob McKeeman worked the roads as an ISP trooper for 18 and a half years. When asked if he wanted to become the agency's first tactical flight officer, it didn’t take long for him to decide.
“We can then guide people to where this person is, wither again it's somebody from a pursuit, or if it's somebody's grandmother, or a child with autism that maybe is nonverbal, you could have an officer walk right past the kid and maybe not say anything. But we can see that that child,” McKeeman said. “So we can guide them in.”“There'll be somebody laying in the cornfield, and they just show up as a white spot, if you will, in the human form.
“As a pilot, my biggest thing is safety, make sure we're not going to run it to a tower or to wires, you know, any anything safety-wise. That's my responsibility,” Ruegsegger said.
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