
The Kaohsiung Port Police Corps used drones to monitor large-scale events for the first time, combining maritime police boats and shore police forces to implement three-dimensional land, sea and air deployments to ensure the safety of participants in the "Kaohsiung Creative Raft Building Competition" and maintain traffic order.
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The Port of Kaohsiung frequently holds large-scale events and crowds gather, which increases security challenges. The Port Police Corps introduced drone technology for the first time to strengthen surveillance.
The Kaohsiung Port Police Corps used drones (above) for the first time to monitor the safety of large-scale events. (Photo by reporter Hong Dinghong)
More and more large-scale events are being held in Kaohsiung Port, and the influx of large numbers of people has increased security concerns. In order to ensure the safety of participants, the Kaohsiung Port Police Corps finally used drones for the first time, coupled with sea police boats and shore police forces, to adopt a three-dimensional "land, sea, and air" deployment to maintain event safety and surrounding traffic order.
The Kaohsiung Port Police Corps stated that on September 12 and 13, the "Kaohsiung Creative Raft Building Competition" was held in the inner waters of the Kaohsiung Port Dagang Bridge and the open space next to Dagang warehouse No. 8. Drones performed aerial inspections at 2:20 and 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and will continue to perform duties today (13th).
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The Kaohsiung Port Police Corps emphasized that during the event, 14 police officers on land were deployed to maintain order and traffic on site, and a police boat in the waters carried out security alerts. For the first time, a drone was used to inspect the event venue and surrounding people and traffic conditions from the air, forming a three-dimensional deployment of "land, sea, and air".
The Kaohsiung Port Police Corps uses drones to monitor the security of the Kaohsiung Port area. (Photo by reporter Hong Dinghong)

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