Police had only trained to deal with one drone at a time before Gatwick chaos

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Police 'had only trained to deal with one drone at a time' before Gatwick chaos

Force maintains 'significant amount of learning from unique challenge' of the incident.

Preparation: Counter drone equipment at Gatwick Airport

Date - 10th July 2019
By - Nick Hudson - Police Oracle

Police admit they have “learned a lot” from a failure to stop drones causing chaos near Gatwick Airport because they had only trained to deal with one device at a time, A number of drone sightings forced Britain's second-busiest...

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