police report 12-fold jump
Police report 12-fold jump in drone offences
Up to ten crimes involving drones are reported to police every day amid a surge in their popularity, an investigation has found. Drones are at the centre of thousands of incidents such as rows between neighbours, prison smuggling, 'scoping' before burglaries, mid-air near misses and snooping. Crimes logged by police rocketed between 2014 and 2016 – last year there were 3,456 incidents, equivalent to nearly ten a day. It is almost triple the 2015 figure of 1,237 and more than 12 times the 2014 tally of 283. The true total is likely to be higher as full data was not available for all UK forces.