now we'll hear from captain chris and lieutenant tom mcguire. before we start, let me thank them for their leadership. proposition e passed in march, and the speed in which we have gotten this program together and actually procured a drone, it goes beyond the police department, but it is really instrumental that these two gentleman along with assistant chief lazar and many others in the department, their leadership made this happen. before i turn it over to them, i also want to thank the other city departments, including our contract administration from the mayor's and the mayor's office staff and many others who have really did this with speed unheard of in our city, so the sense of urgency is the point i'm try toog make here. we have a sense of urgency to make this a safe city and do the things in the city the people deserve and that sense of urgency is the reason we are here now, not even 6 months after the proposition passed. we launched the drone program. with that, i'll turn it over to captain dellgandio and lieutenant mcguire. >> thank yo

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before i start i want to introduce our mayor london breed, our lieutenant tom mcguire.operations, lazar and president of our police officer association mccray. thank you all for being here and attending the press conference this morning. first of all, we are here to talk about something very exciting to us and that's the introduction of our drone program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i like to give thanks to our mayor, london breed and our da

before i start i want introduce our mayor london breed, our lieutenant tom mcguire. [indiscernible] assistant of operations, lazar and president of our police officer association mccray. thank you all for being here this morning. first of all, we are here to talk about something very exciting to us and that's the introduction of ou drone program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i like to give thanks to our mayor, london breed and our da for being here, because it is her leadership that got us here and proposition e voters passed in march. anounss sfpd successfully launched our drone program and this is all thanks to our mayor. drones have truly police department. think of this, we have been without air support over 24 years since the early 2000 and officers have tremendous technology at their finger tips other law enforcement agencies regularly use. drones ain and lieuten want will discuss shortly. benefits include, faster response times, si tools, more precision, de-escalation, more information to formulate a plan, officer safety enin nec

that said, tom, the fbi did open a federal investigation into this case, although they say there is no reason to believe mr. mcguire has any connections to organized terrorist activity. tom. >> yes, still a lot of questions tonight. all right, david, we thank you for that. >>> we turn overseas now to the escalating war in the middle east. hezbollah targeting tel aviv with a missile for the first time and israel with its strongest suggestion yet there could be a ground war. richard engel is in beirut. >> reporter: israel now says its strikes into lebanon are preparatory to take out hezbollah fighters and weapons before a possible ground invasion. the chief of staff of the israeli military today told his troops a maneuver is being planned into lebanon where the death toll from air attacks has been rising for days. "you will go in, destroy the enemy there, and decisively destroy their infrastructure," he said. hezbollah leaders are promising to inflict heavy casualties in a ground war and to prove they're undeterred, the iranian-backed militia group for the first time launched a missile at tel aviv. the missile was sh

my name is tom mcguire. i'm the acting captain of the strategic investigations unit. with me is acting lieutenant eric batchelder. officer catherine cook is also part of the team that started up the drone program, i'd like to go through this powerpoint that we are going to go through quickly. and then i'd like to set some time for any questions at the end. we also want to take an opportunity to invite any commissioners gpa, anyone that would like to come and see our drones in action. you're all welcome to please get in touch with me. any member of the team would be happy to have you. thank you. chair. well, we'll bring our drones. yes, please, so, following the passage of proposition e, the department procured six drones, these drones are first air support in 24 years in this department, all drone operators are part 107 faa certified with licenses. we use these to be more effective and efficient responding to our crime, we're integrating the jones with other technologies, such as the automated license plate readers. alpers we deploy them throughout city and county of

before i start i want to introduce our mayor london breed, our lieutenant tom mcguire.ssistant of operations, lazar and president of our police officer association mccray. thank you all for being here attending the press conference this morning. first of all, we are here to talk about something very exciting to us and that's the introduction of ou drone program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i like to give thanks to our mayor, london breed and our da for being here, because it is her leadership that got us here and proposition e voters passed in march. excid to