Drones used to tackle trespassing

BRITISH Transport Police and Network Rail have now started to use drones to locate trespassers. With an apparent rise in trespass incidents, the drones are equipped with a highquality zoom and thermal imaging to speed up the process of finding the offender, thereby minimising the impact on services. Last year (April 2021-April 2022), there were 1105 incidents, which resulted in 48,702 delays at a cost of £3.5 million. So far this year, there have been 572 trespass incidents, resulting in 21,021 delay minutes at a cost of £1.1 million to the industry.