In addition to traffic control, the modern devices can also be used to detect hard-to-reach places, as well as to detect illegal migration on the southern border, to secure events, to search for missing persons, to detect illegal waste dumps and to investigate crime scenes.
This year, the police used drones in 2,400 cases, 1,100 of which were used against traffic violators, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior announced on Friday in Budapest.
It is also thanks to the development of the police equipment park and the acquisition of modern equipment that the number of crimes in Hungary has decreased by a third compared to 2010 - stressed Bence Rétvári at the press conference connected with the presentation.
The fact that the number of police personnel increased by 3,000 compared to 2010, to 36,500, also contributed to the improvement of public security, so Hungary has now become the 13th safest country in the world, the politician added.
In addition to traffic control, drones can also be used to detect hard-to-reach places, and on the southern border to detect illegal migration, to secure events, to search for missing persons, to detect illegal waste dumps and to investigate crime scenes.
István Jámbor, head of the traffic police department of the National Police Headquarters, reported at the press conference that the police currently has 60 drones and that 300 police officers have been trained to handle the devices.
Drones are all the more useful for traffic control because (unlike the police) they cannot be seen by violators.
The deployment of drones also contributed to the fact that by the beginning of August, 247 people died on Hungarian roads by 42 fewer than in the same period last year, and the number of fatal accidents also decreased by 30, to 225, said the police colonel.
MTI
