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Ring in the new: NYPD drone to oversee Times Square revelry

NEW YORK (AP) — It's an sand-filled sanitation trucks
Auld Lang Syne of the will be positioned to stop
times: For the first time, a vehicles from driving into
police drone will be keep- the crowd. And, above it
ing watch over the New all, a remote-controlled
Year's Eve celebration in quadcopter will be giving
New York's Times Square. police a unique view of the
The unmanned eye-in-the- merriment — and any po-
sky is the latest wrinkle in tential mayhem. It’s the first
the New York City Police time the NYPD is sending
Department's ever-evolv- up a drone for a big event.
ing plan to keep revelers — “That’s going to give us a
and "Rockin' Eve" host Ryan visual aid and the flexibility
Seacrest — safe. of being able to move a
About 7,000 police officers camera to a certain spot
will be on duty for Monday with great rapidity through
night's festivities in Times a tremendous crowd,”
Square, including counter- Deputy Commissioner of In-
terrorism teams with long telligence and Counterter- In this Jan. 1, 2018, file photo, confetti flies over Times Square during the New Year's celebration
guns and bomb-sniffing rorism John Miller said. in New York.
dogs. Police cars and Continued on Page 4 Associated Press