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Rourkela decodes smart policing with AI-enabled drones, facial recognition
The New Indian Express Sambalpur
|September 10, 2025
AMID its pursuit for high-tech policing in all spheres of operation, the use of AI-enabled aerial surveillance drones have come handy for Rourkela police, enabling it to carry out patrolling and detection of anti-social activities at parks and other public places with increased ease.
The effectiveness of drone patrolling came to fore on Monday with the arrest of 11 anti-social persons consuming alcohol at parks, open spaces near licensed liquor shops at Koelnagar under Jhirpani police limits. On Sunday morning, Rourkela SP Nitesh Wadhwani had taken a bicycle ride to Koelnagar when senior citizens of the locality apprised him of how anti-social elements consume alcohol or other narcotic substances in open public spaces.
This story is from the September 10, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Sambalpur.
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