{"id":6613,"date":"2026-11-06T06:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/st-louis-police-drone-responds-to-first-911-call-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:52:39","slug":"st-louis-police-drone-responds-to-first-911-call-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/st-louis-police-drone-responds-to-first-911-call-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Police Drone Responds to First 911 Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 November 6, 2026 (STL.News) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) has officially launched its Drone as First Responder program, deploying its first police drone to a 911 call just hours after the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners approved the program\u2019s operating policies on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. The first deployment marked a major shift in the department\u2019s approach to emergency response, giving police the ability to assess certain incidents from the air before officers arrive on the ground. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F3eGNq404P18%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Louis police drone unit responds to first 911 call hours after program approval\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eGNq404P18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> Play The Board of Police Commissioners approved the operational policies in a 4-1 vote,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-police-drone-responds-to-first-911-call-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 November 6, 2026 (STL.News) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) has officially launched its Drone as First Responder program, deploying its first police drone to a 911 call just hours after the St. Louis Board&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}