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Friday, 5 March 2010
Merseyside Police forced to drop their drones
Since 2007, Liverpool has been experimenting with airborne surveillance. Any fears, however, that this could upgrade to armed drones, as used against Palestinians and manufactured by the same Israeli company that produced the flying cameras until now in use by the banks of the Mersey could now be put to one side, as this article in the Daily Mail suggests: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251422/Police-ground-40-000-drone-amid-claims-used-illegally.html
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