Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala police on Friday launched a first-of-its-kind Drone Forensic Lab and Research Centre with an aim to address the rising concerns in this regard. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the unique initiative at a function held in the Special Armed police parade ground, which was followed by the display and air show of drones.

Addressing at the function, Chief Minister said there is information that anti-national forces are using drones for various destructive activities including spying, smuggling and terrorism. The CM also mentioned about the recent drone strike at the Jammu airport by the terrorists. He said, "It is posing serious challenges to various security agencies including police nowadays. The Kerala police is coming out with such a lab-cum-research centre in this backdrop.” He added that “Not just the finding of unauthorised drones, but the production of aerial vehicles according to the demands of the police force to help the day-to-day policing would also be conducted at the new facility”.

It had already become clear how drones could be used productively for maintaining law and order situations and crowd management during the COVID-19 induced lockdown, he said.

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