The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Directorate is enhancing its crime prevention capabilities with the introduction of an advanced aerial surveillance technology aircraft.
“The information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technology will take information gathering to the next level in the fight against poaching, land invasions, vegetation fires, illegal street racing, responding to gang incidents and pursuing stolen or hijacked vehicles,” the City of Cape Town said in a press release.
ISR, commonly referred to as Eye in the Sky, is a two-seater fixed-wing aircraft fitted with state-of-the-art cameras that the Safety and Security Directorate will deploy to provide officers with situational awareness and aerial imagery when conducting various enforcement operations.
The aircraft, which can fly higher than a drone, is also fitted with infrared cameras, allowing it to register body heat in cold water, the heat resonating from a recently fired firearm or even the…
